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In a statement made today, October 12, Marie-Paule Kieny, the head of Vaccine Research at the World Health Organization (WHO), announced that the United Nations agency plans to start sending H1N1 influenza vaccines to the developing world as early as next month. Most of the drugs will be donated by big pharmaceutical... |
12 October 2009
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Less than four months before the UN climate change summit, scheduled to take place in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, the United Nations' Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, decided to undertake a visit to the Arctic, so as to raise awareness among world leaders of the necessity for change. The official is also taki... |
2 September 2009
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A new model developed by researchers at the Princeton University holds the promise of being able to fairly distribute the burdens of carbon dioxide cut responsibilities to all nations that will participate at the December United Nations summit, to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark. Previous proposals have all been rejec... |
7 July 2009
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After an extremely narrow vote, 62-year-old Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano has been appointed as the new Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), succeeding Mohamed ElBaradei as the leader of one of the most important agencies in the world. More than two thirds of the Council voted for Amano... |
6 July 2009
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The clean development mechanism (CDM) is an instrument created by the United Nations to serve as a carbon trading system for a number of countries. Today, a top climate executive in China denied allegations made about the country by several other states, which said that it was more or less getting a free ride within ... |
12 June 2009
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According to the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), traces of undeclared and illegal man-made uranium have been found in a small teaching reactor in Damascus, Syria. This is the second time when off-the-books uranium is found in the Middle Eastern nation, with previous traces identifi... |
8 June 2009
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The United Nations released a 53-page recommendation report on Wednesday, saying that the world was not yet “standing still” as far as a consensus on climate change was concerned. At last December's summit in the Polish city of Poznan, the divide between the developed and the underdeveloped world wid... |
20 May 2009
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A fisheries official in South Korea announced on Thursday that the country was considering resuming its commercial fishing practices, if the International Whaling Commission allowed Japan to continue its cull of minke whales in its territorial waters. The situation, which will be discussed in June at the next IWC mee... |
23 April 2009
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According to top Australian and Chinese officials, there is a good chance that the December 2009 UN summit, to be held in Copenhagen, will be concluded with an international treaty that will replace the Kyoto Protocol. The two representatives say that signs show that the increasing gap between rich and developing nat... |
15 April 2009
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The latest international climate talks, held in Bonn, Germany, as a preview to the December UN summit in Copenhagen, did nothing to solve any actual issue related to the environment, but rather evidenced the fact that there was a widening conflict between developed and developing nations, when it came to deciding the... |
9 April 2009
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The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced on Monday that the world should not get the impression that the global food security crisis had passed simply because the price of grain had slightly dropped over the last period. The organization said that the actual number of those below the limit of poverty ... |
30 March 2009
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On Tuesday, Yvo de Boer, the climate chief at the United Nations, warned that time was running out for governments and national authorities to come up with new and sustainable methods of reducing pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. He said that, with just 265 days left until this December's Copenhagen intern... |
18 March 2009
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The European Union (EU)'s environment chief announced on Friday that the Copenhagen conference, scheduled to take place at the end of this year, was the cornerstone in the fight against global warming. He cautions that, if important steps aren't taken to address this issue at the next global summit, then th... |
27 February 2009
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In its annual report, the United Nations' International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has established that drug consumption in the Unites States, the largest market of illicit substances in the world, has decreased, especially amongst teens, but that prescription pill abuse is on a steep rise. According to the ... |
20 February 2009
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According to a bleak prediction released by the United Nations on Tuesday, the world could lose up to 25 percent of its food supply by no later than 2050, on account of the devastation that will be triggered by global warming and climate change. Among the most serious effects, the report enumerates soil erosion, degr... |
18 February 2009
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Iran announced on Tuesday that it had sent its first home-made satellite into orbit, aboard a delivery system that was also developed in the Middle-Eastern nation. The move was not well-received by leaders of the Western world, who already had tense relations with the Tehran regime, on account of the country's n... |
4 February 2009
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R.K. Pachauri, the chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), urged nations on Friday not to give in to growing pressures coming from industries worldwide, and to maintain the harsh environmental policies they set out to accomplish. The official says that this is a crucial moment, and that comp... |
2 February 2009
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has recently announced that the food crisis of the world has not disappeared since prices soared in early 2008, but that it has rather just slipped out of the headlines. FAO warns that the situation is almost desperate, with poor countries suffering the effe... |
26 January 2009
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, a branch of the United Nations that deals with assessing the effects of global warming on the globe, has estimated that sea levels worldwide will rise by about 30-35 centimeters in the next century, on account of the large quantities of carbon dioxide emitted in... |
10 January 2009
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An official communicate on Sea Shepherd's website announces that the organization's flagship, the Steve Irwin, collided with the Japanese industrial whaling ship Kaiko Maru, just 90 miles west of the New Zealand Zone. During the protest, the environmental activists threw 10 bottles containing rotten butter ... |
29 December 2008
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The UN Conference on Climate Change, which took place in Poznan, Poland, December 1-12, yielded no conclusive results on new targets to reduce carbon and greenhouse gas emissions, following the completion of the Kyoto Protocol, in 2012. However, there were some step forward in the new summit, and officials expre... |
20 December 2008
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Although the Bushmen living in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve already have a difficult time finding water and are facing severe shortages, a new ruling by the Botswana government says that the Gem Diamonds company can only operate in the region if it denies water supplies to the indigenous people. The central auth... |
11 December 2008
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Accidental deaths among children total a whopping 830,000 each year, a new World Health Organization (WHO) report recently revealed. Most of these deaths occur in Africa, or in the poorest regions of the globe, where children are offered inadequate protection against car traffic, or are not safeguarded from falling i... |
11 December 2008
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Official estimates of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) say that cancer will surpass heart diseases as the most fatal condition on the planet by 2010. The incidence of cancer cases is growing exponentially by the decade, with as much as 12.4 million people being diagnosed with some form of the condition this yea... |
10 December 2008
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China came up with a very surprising proposal at the UN Climate Change Conference in Poznan, saying that it would agree to a system where carbon limits would be set by means of establishing per capita emission levels for every man, woman and child on the planet. For example, the nation argues that a 2.33 tonnes of ca... |
9 December 2008
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Several countries, among which Poland, the organizer of the current UN Conference on Climate Change, are lobbying for reduced emission targets by the year 2020, despite the fact that they recognized global warming as being one of the most hard-pressing international issues at the moment. The financial crisis is the m... |
8 December 2008
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Brazil opposed the idea that rich countries could offset their carbon emissions by funding tree preservation efforts in underdeveloped countries, its ambassador for climate change, Sergio Serra, announced at the Poznan UN conference on Thursday. The main reason for this refusal was the fact that, on one hand, ri... |
5 December 2008
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The December 1-12 UN Climate Change Conference, hosted by the city of Poznan, in Poland, adds to the very problem it's trying to fix, global warming. Estimates of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) say that more than 13,000 tonnes of carbon will be released into the atmosphere during the talk... |
4 December 2008
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Increased worldwide temperatures, triggered by global warming and climate change, would take a heavy toll on the Pacific region, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations announced on Tuesday. The Pacific islands will be the most severely affected, as their yearly harvests are heavily dependen... |
3 December 2008
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In the first days of the Poznan Conference, where delegates from all around the world have gathered to discuss the threats posed by global warming and climate change, developing nations have requested high levels of subsidies from rich countries, to help them tackle issues such as deforestation and the preservation o... |
3 December 2008
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The global financial crisis will also take its toll on human lives, if AIDS prevention funds are reduced by governments trying to maintain a positive economic balance, the United Nations said last week, in a news conference on HIV Awareness Day, which was on Monday. Sub-Saharan Africa will be mostly affected by lack ... |
2 December 2008
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The city of Poznan, in Poland, will be, throughout this week, host to one of the largest UN Climate Change meetings in history, a part of a two year-long effort on behalf of the international organization, to come to an agreement on what is to be done on the issue of the global environment by 2009. The effort, s... |
1 December 2008
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United Nations agencies announced on Friday that the recent Zimbabwean cholera outbreak was just "the tip of the iceberg," in what concerns the state of health that most of this nation's inhabitants had. Decades of poor country management have brought the health system on the verge of collapse, so the fact that ... |
28 November 2008
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Although bringing 190 nations to the table to discuss the delicate problems of climate change and global warming was no easy deal, the United Nations predicts a "gloomy" outcome, among talks of the widely-spread financial crisis. Yvo de Boer, head of the UN Climate Change Secretariat, predicts that participant countr... |
28 November 2008
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Over the past few years, planting trees has been a widely-advocated way of reducing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, and finding ways of stimulating land owners not to cut any more forests down has been an international priority. Now, a carbon trade system may be implemented for forests as well, but, ... |
27 November 2008
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President-elect Barack Obama founded much of his campaign on his environmental policies, and the people who voted for him, especially environmentalists and ecologists, hope to see their confidence pay off in the coming year, when the UN Conference on Climate Change is scheduled to take place in December. Copenhagen w... |
24 November 2008
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A total of eleven regional offices of the UNFPA (short for United Nations Population Fund) use NAC (network access control) in order to protect the safety of the core network which is based in New York. What this means is that although a machine can try to access the network from any part of the world, it will only ... |
21 July 2008
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