April 26, 2016 UN special adviser leaves Sanders advisory role after months of attacks on Hillary Clinton World-renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs, who plays a high-powered role as special adviser to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and director of a number of U.N.-sponsored enterprises, abruptly resigned last week from one of his other part-time jobs: foreign policy adviser for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
December 9, 2015 Compromise breaks deadlock at UN climate talks Developed countries and fast-growing economies reached a last-minute compromise Saturday to avert a breakdown of U.N. climate talks in Warsaw.
December 9, 2015 Exclusive: UN ignores science council warnings in creating vast Sustainable Development Goals When the United Nations approved a massive agenda of sustainable development goals last week, it over-rode pointed warnings by two international science councils that the program is in many ways uncoordinated, unmeasurable and unrealistically ambitious.
December 7, 2015 John Podesta, key player in administration’s regulation drive, also helped UN develop radical new global agenda John Podesta, the former Clinton Administration chief of staff who is spearheading President Barack Obama’s aggressive strategy of government- by -regulation, has also been helping United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon with an even more ambitious job: setting the stage to radically transform the world’s economic, environmental and social agenda.
