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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.
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Indian Official Criticizes Perceived Double Standard on Carbon
December 22, 2015
The Indian Government's Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian has labeled what he views as the West's practice of continuing carbon-producing activity while seeking to phase out fossil fuels in developing countries, where such energy is needed the most, as "carbon imperialism."