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IEA Calls for Periodic Revisiting of UN Climate Agreements
June 17, 2015
The incoming Executive Director of the International Energy Agency ("IEA") Fatih Birol has called for countries to revisit the binding commitments they will potentially make at a Paris conference on climate change every five years due to changing circumstances and technology costs.
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Schaefer: US Should Press UN on Funding Allocation
June 16, 2015
Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation has called on the Obama Administration to press the UN Committee on Contributions to spread the burden of UN expenses more fairly across its members and to give larger contributors more of a say over UN budgetary decisions.
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UN Group Pushes Sustainable Transport Policies
June 16, 2015
The UN Secretary-General's High-Level Advisory Group on Sustainable Transport is developing a set of policy recommendations for countries to build "sustainable transport systems" and thus reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the UN's climate change agenda.
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NGOs Push for "Global Citizenship" Concept in Development
June 16, 2015
The Inter Press Service reports that nongovernmental organizations ("NGOs") and national leaders are pushing for the inclusion of the broad concept of "global citizenship" - including an expanded concept of social and economic human rights - in the UN's post-2015 development agenda.
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AI: Ireland's Pro-Life Constitution Violates International Law
June 15, 2015
Amnesty International ("AI") has published a report arguing that the Irish Constitution, whose Eighth Amendment seeks to protect "the right to life of the unborn," violates international law, "which does not recognise a foetal right to life" and which proscribes torture and discrimination.
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