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Military Budgets Unexplored Source for Development Funding
2015-12-01 16:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: As the United Nations continues its intense search for trillions of dollars needed to finance 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by world leaders last September, there is one rich source that remains unexplored: world military budgets. Addressing the SDG summit, President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan was one of the few - or perhaps the only - head of state who urged every UN member state to contribute 1.0 per cent of its military budget towards the funding of SDGs. But there...
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