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UNEP: export of used cars to developing world creating significant environmental problems
2020-10-28 12:55:39| Green Car Congress
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UNEP report signals unprecedented momentum climate agreement in Paris
2015-11-06 05:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Xinhua: Existing policies and strong engagement by nations submitting their contributions ahead of the Paris climate meeting will limit anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030, according to a new United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) report published on Friday. The new report presented an assessment of the 119 Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) submitted to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The report covers 146 countries (including the European...
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Climate adaptation costs soaring: UNEP report
2014-12-06 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: At the time when developing countries including India are pitching to have a global climate deal with "adaptation" goal as its key component, a UN body on Friday dropped a bombshell for rich nations, saying the cost of adapting to climate change is likely to reach up to $210-300 billion per year by 2050 even if the global greenhouse gas emissions are cut to keep the temperature rise below 2 degree Celsius this century. This concern is expressed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)...
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Climate change threatens global health security: UNEP
2014-11-01 11:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indo Asian News Service: The rapid propagation in recent years of infectious diseases such as Malaria, Chikungunya and even Ebola is one more example of how climate change threatens global health security. "Climatic changes also affect temperatures and regional climates, the conditions on which, for instance, in the continent of Africa, mosquitoes may spread from one region to another," Achim Steiner, executive director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) , told Efe news agency Friday in a telephone interview from...
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Climate science triggers action from government, industry: UNEP
2014-11-01 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Xinhua: A growing body of scientific evidence has inspired governments and industries to respond to the threats posed by climate change, a senior UN official said. United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)'s Executive Director, Achim Steiner, told Xinhua in an interview in Nairobi this week that policymakers and investors have relied on climate science to initiate mitigation and adaptation projects. "The latest assessment report is categorical that we are faced with a climate change threat and the...
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