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UN Launches Host of Initiatives to Counter Global Warming
December 28, 2015
During the recent UN climate talks in Paris, the international organization and its agencies launched several initiatives aimed at countering climate change or containing its effects, including an effort to aid people who are at risk due to the catastrophic weather effects of global warming and "communiqué" that aims to reduce fossil-fuel subsidies.
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UN Guidance Criticizes "Politicization" of Refugee Crisis
December 22, 2015
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees ("UNHCR") has issued a report guiding countries how to maintain security while admitting large flows of refugees and calling for governments to "de-dramatize" and "de-politicize" such security challenges in order to prevent what one UNHCR official warned was growing "xenophobia and vilification" directed toward refugees.
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UN Warns of Climate-Caused Food Disasters
December 22, 2015
The UN Food and Agricultural Organization ("FAO") has warned that climate change is causing a number of natural catastrophes that are posing a threat to the food supply in developing countries and calls for increased investments in efforts to limit global warming to increase food security.
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World Bank Pursues African Climate Strategy to Defeat Poverty
December 22, 2015
Blaming past greenhouse gas emissions for limiting anti-poverty efforts in Africa, the World Bank Group has issued a strategy for providing billions of dollars in funding for "climate-resilient" and "low-carbon" development to reduce poverty on the continent.
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NGO Explores Global Governance Options for Carbon Market
December 22, 2015
In a recent article, Andrei Marcu of the Centre for European Policy Studies considers a number of different options for a unified "carbon market" governed by a central, international body under the terms of the Paris climate agreement.