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UN-Launched Group Calls for Climate Investment in Cities
December 30, 2015
A report emanating from the Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance, launched by the UN in 2014, seeks a large injection of funding from governments and businesses into cities for "climate-smart" infrastructure and transportation development to counter the effects of climate change.
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UN Ramps up Pressure for Climate-Change Education
December 30, 2015
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") recently hosted a seminar for policy coordinators, teachers, and students from its Associated Schools Project Network to assist with the development of action plans to educate children about the effects of climate change in schools around the world.
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UN, Norway Agree on Funding for Climate-Poverty Research
December 30, 2015
The UN Environment Programme ("UNEP") has announced a $10 million deal with Norway that will fund UNEP's work on environmental crimes and on "mainstreaming" policy initiatives at the national level on how development planning can alleviate the effects of global warming on poverty.
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UN Official Insists Climate Deal Is "Legally Binding"
December 30, 2015
In an interview during the UN climate-change negotiations in Paris, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Christiana Figueres argued that any deal that would come out of the Paris talks would have "several different natures of legal bindingness" on countries around the world.
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Security Organization Seeks Solutions to Economic Inequality
December 30, 2015
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") recently hosted an "inter-religious dialogue," including commentary from the director of a consultancy on "Shariah Solutions" and Islamic finance, in Rome on how to confront economic inequality in the OSCE region and beyond.
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