SIX SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS PLEDGE $3Bn GATHERED BY PDT MACRON AT ELYSEE PALACE

TO FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE

Responsible Author: Jedi Foster P/O Rahma Sophia Rachdi | Paris, Washington DC, 07/11/2019, 00:33 Time

USPA NEWS - Six sovereign wealth funds together weighing more than 3,000 billion dollars (Norway, New Zealand, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates), gathered Friday by Emmanuel Macron, have decided to commit to the fight against climate change, announced the Elysee.

In a charter to be presented Friday evening at the Elysee Palace, these heavyweights in global finance, fueled mainly by oil and gas revenues in their country, undertake to encourage the companies in which they invest to integrate the risk of oil. climate change and present public data on their low carbon strategy. Their pledge will be presented at a press conference Friday afternoon in the presence of the Head of State and Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg. This initiative is announced the same day as the assessment of the climate plan to be drawn up by Minister for the ecological transition Nicolas Hulot. The Elysee says it wants to "assert the coherence between the national strategy, European and international commitments".

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FRENCH MINISTER OF ECOLOGY RUGY LAUNCH OF A CALL FOR PROJECTS ZERO MARINE WASTE

TO REDUCE IMPACT OF WASTE

Responsible Author: Jedi Foster P/O Rahma Sophia Rachdi | Paris, Washington DC, 07/11/2019, 00:28 Time

USPA NEWS - Further to the meeting of signatures of Contracts of convergences and transformation ». by French President Macron and French PM, Edouard Philippe, at Ministry of overseas yesterday, François de Rugy, Minister of State, Minister for the Ecological and Solidarity Transition, Annick Girardin, Minister of Overseas Territories and Brune Poirson, Secretary to the Minister of State, Minister for Ecological and Solidarity Transition, announced the launch of a call for projects to reduce the impact of waste, including abandoned or lost nets and fishing gear, on marine biodiversity in overseas territories.
Waste, nets and fishing gear abandoned or lost at sea have a considerable impact on biodiversity and marine fauna, notably by creating entanglement phenomena. Today, it is considered that a large majority of marine litter comes from onshore activities; plastic waste represents almost all of them.cFaced with these alarming findings, a call for projects is launched to propose concrete, effective, sustainable and replicable solutions to reduce the impact of this waste on the marine environment. This is in line with the objectives of the Biodiversity Plan and the Overseas Blue Book.

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FRENCH MINISTER OF ECOLOGY RUGY LAUNCH OF A CALL FOR PROJECTS ZERO MARINE WASTE

TO REDUCE IMPACT OF WASTE

Responsible Author: Jedi Foster P/O Rahma Sophia Rachdi | Paris, Washington DC, 07/10/2019, 03:58 Time

USPA NEWS - Further to the meeting of signatures of Contracts of convergences and transformation ». by French President Macron and French PM, Edouard Philippe, at Ministry of overseas yesterday, François de Rugy, Minister of State, Minister for the Ecological and Solidarity Transition, Annick Girardin, Minister of Overseas Territories and Brune Poirson, Secretary to the Minister of State, Minister for Ecological and Solidarity Transition, announced the launch of a call for projects to reduce the impact of waste, including abandoned or lost nets and fishing gear, on marine biodiversity in overseas territories.
 Waste, nets and fishing gear abandoned or lost at sea have a considerable impact on biodiversity and marine fauna, notably by creating entanglement phenomena. Today, it is considered that a large majority of marine litter comes from onshore activities; plastic waste represents almost all of them.

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Half of G7 education aid is dedicated to gender equality

Resulatsare long overdue

Responsible Author: Jedi Foster P/O Rahma Sophia Rachdi | Paris, Washington DC, 07/08/2019, 23:28 Time

USPA NEWS - Despite significant progress made to close the gap between boys and girls in access to education worldwide over the last 20 years, the number of adult illiterate women in developing countries Low income has increased by 20 million since 2000, according to the latest UNESCO Global Monitoring Report on Education (GEM). The Building Bridges to Promote Gender Equality Report is presented at the G7 Meeting of Ministers of Development and Education and the G7-UNESCO International Conference at UNESCO Headquarters. It presents the very first data on G7 education support. According to the report, 55% of aid is allocated to gender equality, with Canada being the country with the highest budget (92%), followed by France and the United Kingdom, which respectively devote 76% their aid to the development of education.
The new Report also highlights significant disparities and uneven progress in different regions. One-third of countries do not offer the same opportunities to girls as boys in primary education.

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