| Brookings Institute |
The Brookings Institute is an extremely significant American-based foreign policy think-tank, engaging in foreign
relations work, international governance strategies, and national and multilateral economic/political research. The Brookings official start-year was
1927, although its history can be traced to the 1916 Institute for Government
Research.
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| Brundtland Commission |
Named after Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem
Brudtland, the Brundtland Commission – officially known as the World Commission
on Environment and Development – produced the landmark 1987 report, Our
Common Future. The work of the Brundtland Commission was instrumental in
developing a roadmap for global environmental governance, and popularized the
idea of “sustainable development.”
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| BSP |
The BSP – Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas – is the
central bank for the Philippines. As an autonomous institution, BSP is charged
with tasks such as monetary policy setting, issuing of national currency, and
the management of foreign reserves. BSP is a shareholding member of the Bank
for International Settlements.
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| BTA |
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| Bulgarian National Bank |
Bulgaria’s central bank: a shareholding member
of the Bank for International Settlements.
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| Business Roundtable |
The Business Roundtable is a United States-based Chief Executive organization with a membership comprised from America’s largest
corporations. It advocates global trade policies and international economic/investment
programs.
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| BWC |
The Better World Campaign (BWC) is a project instituted by
the Better World Fund to develop deeper cooperative ties between the US
government and the United Nations, especially as it relates to supporting UN funding
and empowerment programs.
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| BWF |
The Better World Fund (BWF) is a sister organization of the United Nations Foundation, the body responsible for
overseeing Ted Turner’s 1997 $1 billion gift to the United Nations. The BWF
exists for one purpose: to build and strengthen the goals and objectives of the
United Nations.
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| BWS |
The Better World Society (BWS) is an earlier group
founded by Ted Turner to support the United Nations stride towards a global
environmental governance platform.
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| CAFTA |
Central American Free Trade Argeement
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| Cairns Group |
Group of agricultural exporting nations lobbying for agricultural trade liberalization. It was formed in 1986 in Cairns, Australia just before
the beginning of the Uruguay Round. Current membership: Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica,
Guatemala, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Paraguay, Philippines, South Africa, Thailand and Uruguay.
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| CBD |
Convention on Biological Diversity
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| CFR |
Council on Foreign Relations - Founded in 1921 and quickly became a major influence on U.S. foreign policy. Membership grew over the years to about 4,000. Its primary publication, Foreign Affairs, continues to be a most likely source of globalist theories. David Rockefeller is Honorary Chairman.
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| CGS |
CGS - Citizens for Global Solutions - is a US based lobby group which advocates global governance through world federation. The
organizations formerly known as the World Federalist Association and Campaign
for UN Reform morphed into one group, CGS, during 2004.
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| Chapter 11 |
Is a chapter in the North American
Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that deals with
foreign direct investment. This chapter has become very controversial
because of a provision that established a member country system
of private arbitration for foreign investors to bring injury claims
against governments. These so called "investor-state" cases are
litigated in special international arbitration bodies, which are
closed to public participation, observation and input. Written to
protect foreign investors from governments seizing their property,
corporations have stretched NAFTA's Chapter 11 to undermine government
decisions made to protect public health, the environment and local
communities. [This should not be confused with Chapter 11 of the
US bankruptcy code.]
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