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India could take a hit of $49 bn in GDP amid volatile food prices: UN
2016-05-26 01:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
First Post: India could lose $49 billion in GDP if global food prices double in future, according to a new UN report which said the world will likely suffer from more volatile food prices due to rising populations. The UN Environment Programme-Global Footprint Network report, entitled 'ERISC Phase II: How food prices link environmental constraints to sovereign credit risk', features countries according to how badly they will be affected if global food commodity prices double. The report said if global...
India could lose $49 bn in GDP by food price shock: UN
2016-05-26 01:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Express: Domestic black money window will ensure peace of mind: IT Dept China slowdown poses threat to world economy, says Raghuram Rajan HomeEconomy India could lose $49 bn in GDP by food price shock: UN India could lose $49 bn in GDP by food price shock: UN India could lose $ 49 billion in GDP if global food prices double in future, according to a new UN report which said the world will likely suffer from more volatile food prices due to rising populations. India could...
Governments Should Study Worst-Case Warming: U.N
2016-05-20 13:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: A United Nations panel of scientists seeking ways for nations to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius should not dissuade governments from concentrating on bleaker scenarios of higher temperatures as well, its former chief said. Nations should be considering the potential impact of temperature rises of as much as 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 Fahrenheit), said Robert Watson, former head of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In this 2006 file photo, Robert Watson (L), World...
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Enduring Somalia drought puts hundreds of thousands at risk, UN warns
2016-04-13 15:09:09| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
IRIN: The severe drought in Ethiopia has made headline news. But it has also scorched northern Somalia a region far less able to cope with the impact. Some 385,000 people are already facing a hunger crisis in self-declared independent Somaliland and semi-autonomous Puntland, further to the east. The UNs emergency aid coordination body, OCHA, says an estimated 1.7 million people, nearly 40 percent of the 4.6 million people living in these areas, are in need of humanitarian assistance and livelihood...
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Paris climate deal to be signed by over 130 countries at UN ceremony
2016-04-08 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A record number of more than 130 countries will sign the landmark agreement to tackle climate change at a ceremony at UN headquarters on 22 April, the United Nations said on Thursday. Secretary general Ban Ki-moon is hosting the signing ceremony on the first day that the agreement reached in Paris in December opens for signature. The UN chief, French President Francois Hollande, and environment minister Segolene Royal, who is in charge of global climate negotiations, have invited leaders from all...
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