27-January-2016
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MDCRs have been created as a continuously evolving tool to help countries identify the core constraints among their capabilities. The MDCR then provides national policymakers and their partners with the inputs needed for a country-owned and implemented development strategy.
9-November-2015
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A Sustainable Development Investment Partnership (SDIP) has been launched to mobilize $100 billion in private financing over five years for infrastructure projects in developing countries using development assistance to reduce risk.
28-October-2015
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Views vary on how much of a difference the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) actually made to the world. But on one thing people seem more or less united: They were a great communications tool. Will the new set of goals adopted at the United Nations in October prove equally effective as a communications tool?
14-October-2015
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It has become the accepted wisdom that meeting the global climate challenge will require zero net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by the end of this century. Read the full op-ed by Gabriela Ramos, OECD Special Advisor to the OECD Secretary-General.
16-September-2015
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The most vulnerable communities and poorest countries in the world are the ones that suffer the most from climate change, despite the fact that they have done almost nothing to cause the problem.
7-September-2015
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The global development progress over the past decades has been unprecedented in human history. Extreme poverty has been halved and in the People’s Republic of China alone, more than 600 million people have been brought out of poverty. The world is now embarking on the historic mission to end extreme poverty by 2030 and to implement the new Sustainable Development Goals.
21-juillet-2015
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Les destinées de l’humanité et de l’environnement sont comme les deux faces d’une même pièce ; c’est pourquoi nous devons nous concentrer non plus seulement sur le développement, mais sur le développement durable. Pour cela, nous devons construire des coalitions mondiales pour progresser sur un certain nombre de questions.
16-June-2015
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This blog post John Morrison, Executive Director of the Institute for Human Rights and Business, discusses what the social responsibilities of sporting events should be and argues for greater oversight and due diligence at every stage of the mega-sporting events delivery process.
14-June-2015
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This blog post discusses how the UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework, introduced in February 2015, help companies provide evidence of how they are conducting human rights due diligence: the process of assessing and addressing their human rights impacts, and tracking and communicating how well they do so.
29-mai-2015
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Selon les résultats choquants d’une nouvelle étude d’Oxfam, les 1 % les plus riches de la planète détiendront, si les tendances actuelles se poursuivent, plus de la moitié des richesses mondiales en 2016.