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Sustainable urban infrastructure can foster economic growth UN report
2013-04-18 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
UN News: Developing sustainable urban infrastructure benefits not just the environment, but can also boost economic growth and social stability, according to a United Nations report released today, which stresses the need to transition to resource-efficient technologies in cities, given scarce natural resources. "To date, the trend towards urbanization has been accompanied by increased pressure on the environment and growing numbers of urban poor," said the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director,...
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Air pollution scourge underestimated, green energy can help: U.N.
2013-04-10 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Air pollution is an underestimated scourge that kills far more people than AIDS and malaria and a shift to cleaner energy could easily halve the toll by 2030, U.N. officials said on Tuesday. Investments in solar, wind or hydropower would benefit both human health and a drive by almost 200 nations to slow climate change, blamed mainly on a build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from use of fossil fuels, they said. "Air pollution is causing more deaths than HIV or malaria combined," Kandeh...
Why Is Canada the Only Country to Quit UN Anti-Drought Convention?
2013-04-01 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: Why, suddenly, has the federal government chosen to withdraw from a United Nations convention to combat drought, making Canada an outlier among 194 nations, the only country in the world outside the agreement? Is International Cooperation Minister Julian Fantino to be believed when he said, in the governments first public statement on Wednesday, that membership in this convention was costly for Canadians? Maybe not. Membership appears to have cost Canadians $350,000 last year the equivalent...
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Congo Rebel Attack in Katanga Province Leaves 35 Dead, UN Says
2013-03-24 18:07:24| Real Estate - Topix.net
At least 35 people died in the Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday when a separatist militia attacked the capital of copper-rich Katanga province, the United Nations mission in the country said.
Water as vital to national security as defense, U.N. says
2013-03-22 19:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Stresses on water supplies aggravated by climate change are likely to cause more conflicts and water should be considered as vital to national security as defense, the United Nations report said on Friday. About 145 nations share river basins with their neighbors and need to promote cooperation over a resource likely to be disrupted by more frequent floods and heatwaves, it said. "In the past few decades, definitions of security have moved beyond a limited focus on military risks and conflicts,"...
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