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A third of food is wasted, making it third-biggest carbon emitter, U.N. says
2013-09-11 10:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The food the world wastes accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than any country except for China and the United States, the United Nations said in a report on Wednesday. Every year about a third of all food for human consumption, around 1.3 billion tons, is wasted, along with all the energy, water and chemicals needed to produce it and dispose of it. Almost 30 percent of the world's farmland, and a volume of water equivalent to the annual discharge of the River Volga, are in effect being...
Fossil fuels tax to fund climate efforts proposed at UN talks
2013-07-19 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: UN climate finance talks in Manila ended on Wednesday with no new pledges but showed signs of progress in identifying new sources of funding, such as a levy on fossil fuels. The two-day meeting marked the latest attempt by countries to establish how developed countries can meet their pledge to provide $100 billion a year by 2020 to enable poorer states to cut pollution and build a climate resilient infrastructure. As yet it is unclear where that money will come from, but delegates attending...
Education is a 'security issue', says UN
2013-07-10 01:11:42| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
UN says poor education is a 'security issue'
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Last decade warmest on record, says UN report
2013-07-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: The first decade of the 21st century was the world's warmest in 160 years and was marked by a number of extreme climate events, a United Nations agency has found. A new report by the World Meteorological Organization says that in the period between 2001 and 2010, global warming accelerated since the 1970s and broke more countries' temperature records than ever before. The report, released on Wednesday, says the period was the "warmest decade on record since modern meteorological records began...
Unprecedented climate extremes marked last decade, says UN
2013-07-03 14:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: If you think the world is warming and the weather getting nastier, you're right, according to the United Nations agency committed to understanding weather and climate. The World Meteorological Organization says the planet "experienced unprecedented high-impact climate extremes" in the ten years from 2001 to 2010, the warmest decade since the start of modern measurements in 1850. Those ten years also continued an extended period of accelerating global warming, with more national temperature records...
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