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People want new development goals to promote growth for all - UN
2013-03-21 16:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: The new development agenda to follow on from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which expire in 2015, should focus on how countries can achieve growth that includes everyone, going beyond poverty eradication and international aid, according to an early snapshot of consultations with people around the world. The United Nations launched what it calls a "global conversation" in August last year, and more than 200,000 people from across the world have contributed to a process that will run until...
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Preparing for drought cheaper than waiting for it - UN agencies
2013-03-13 15:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: U.N. agencies are calling on governments at a high-level meeting this week to start reacting more quickly to warnings of drought and put in place national policies to prepare for longer and worse droughts. "In the next decade to come, drought will continue escalating in severity, in occurrence and in duration," Luc Gnacadja, executive secretary of the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), told AlertNet from the conference in Geneva. "Preparedness and risk management cost-wise are...
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Arctic needs protection from resource rush as ice melts: U.N. body
2013-02-18 13:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Arctic needs to be better protected from a rush for natural resources as melting ice makes mineral and energy exploration easier, the United Nations' Environment Programme (UNEP) said. The UNEP Year Book 2013 was released on Monday to accompany the opening of talks in Nairobi attended by environment ministers or senior officials from around 150 nations, aimed at making the world economy greener at a time of weak economic growth. "What we are seeing is that the melting of ice is prompting...
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Marshall Islands ask for UN help
2013-02-18 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Zealand Herald: The Marshall Islands and other low-lying island nations have appealed to the UN Security Council to recognise climate change as an international security threat that jeopardises their survival. Tony deBrum, a Minister and assistant to the Marshall Islands' President, said the island nations were facing opposition from Security Council permanent members Russia and China and more than 130 developing nations. They are arguing that the United Nation's most powerful body is the wrong place to address...
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Climate Change's Links to Conflict Draws UN Attention
2013-02-15 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Imagine India in 2033. It has overtaken China as the most populous nation. Yet with 1.5 billion citizens to feed, its been three years since the last monsoon. Without rain, crops die and people starve. The seeds of conflict take root. This is one of the scenarios Joachim Schellnhuber, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, will present today to members of the United Nations Security Council in New York to show the connection between climate change and global security...
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