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Africa: Wireless Broadband Use Up but Least Developed Countries Left Behind, UN Reports
2013-09-23 19:40:07| Wireless - Topix.net
With nearly two out of every five people in the world online by the end of the year, more than two-thirds of those living in developing countries will not have access to the Internet, the United Nations today reported in a global survey of broadband access.
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Wireless broadband use up but least developed countries left behind, UN reports
2013-09-22 00:46:43| Wireless - Topix.net
The report, the second produced by the UN Broadband Commission for Digital Development, surveyed broadband access in 160 economies around the world.
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Global warming hiatus not set to last, says UN report
2013-09-20 20:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A hiatus in global warming so far this century is partly caused by natural climate variations and is unlikely to last, a draft UN report by leading climate scientists reveals. The draft of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, and a summary which is due for release in Stockholm next week, says that factors including a haze of volcanic ash and a cyclical dip in energy emitted from the Sun may also have contributed to slower warming trends. The fact that temperatures have...
Global warming 'hiatus' unlikely to last: draft U.N. report
2013-09-20 14:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A "hiatus" in global warming so far this century is partly caused by natural variations in a chaotic climate and is unlikely to last, a draft United Nations report by leading climate scientists says. The 127-page draft, and a shorter summary for policymakers that is due for release in Stockholm on September 27 after editing, say factors including a haze of volcanic ash and a cyclical dip in energy emitted from the sun may also have contributed to a slower warming trend. Explaining what the...
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Wasted food is world's third-biggest carbon emitter after China and US: UN
2013-09-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The food the world wastes accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than any country except for China and the United States, according to a United Nations report. It says every year about a third of all food for human consumption, around 1.3 billion tonnes, is wasted, along with all the energy, water and chemicals needed to produce it and dispose of it. Almost 30 per cent of the world's farmland, and a volume of water equivalent to the annual discharge of Europe's River Volga, are in effect...
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