U.N. Targets Trillions of Dollars to Implement Sustainable Development Agenda

U.N. Targets Trillions
of Dollars to Implement Sustainable Development Agenda

Thalif
Deen

After more than two years of intense negotiations, the U.N.’s 193 member states have unanimously agreed on a new Sustainable Development Agenda (SDA) with
17 goals — including the elimination of extreme poverty and hunger — to be reached by 2030. At a press briefing Monday, Ambassador Macharia …

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Opinion: Security Council
Resolution on Airlines Disaster Debases U.N. Charter

Somar
Wijayadasa

On July 29 russia vetoed a draft U.N. Security Council (UNSC) resolution on the establishment of an international tribunal to investigate the downing of Malaysia
Airlines MH17 flight over eastern ukraine last year – killing all 298 people on board. Of the 15 UNSC members, 11 voted in support of …

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Partnerships Critical to
the SDGs, Reducing Inequality

Aruna
Dutt

Last week, South Korea’s Permanent Representative Oh Joon was inaugurated as the new president of the U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). As such,
he will have a key role in setting the course for implementing the ambitious Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that will be adopted …

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Opinion: The Sad Historical
Consequences of the Greek Bailout

Roberto
Savio

In recommendations to German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the end of July, the German Council of Economic Experts outlined how a weak member country could
leave the Eurozone and called for strengthening the European monetary union. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble wants greece out …

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Suez Canal Reopens to Fanfare
but Not Shared by All

a
Global Information Network correspondent

Ships at sea around the world will blast their horns on Aug 6 to mark the re-opening of the world-famous centenarian waterway in Egypt, local officials there
say. “Food will arrive faster. Medicine will arrive faster. Petroleum products will arrive faster,” proclaimed Suez Canal Authority head …

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Zimbabwe’s Climate Change
Ambitions May be Too Tall

Ignatius
Banda

With the U.N. Climate Change conference later this year in paris fast approaching, Zimbabwe’s climate change commitments face the slow progress on an issue
that continues to stalk other developing countries – climate finance. As it prepares for the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change …

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