Disproportionate growth of the world’s urban population could result in further loss of many forms of life on Earth, warn experts in the sciences of climate change and biodiversity. Nearly 200 years ago, London was the only city in the world with more than one million people. Today, across the globe, there are more than 400 cities at least that size.
Releasing a new study entitled Confronting Climate Change: Avoiding the Unmanageable and Managing the Unavoidable, researchers said at United Nations headquarters on Tuesday that policymakers should get their act together before it is too late to avoid a doomsday scenario.
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/ 14 December 2006
Millions of children across the world will continue to suffer from lack of food, healthcare and education as long as their mothers are forced to live with abusive conditions at home and discrimination in the workplace, according to a major new study released at the United Nations on Monday.
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/ 16 November 2006
With efforts to protect the world’s fish populations largely failing to boost their dwindling numbers, a new study says that initiatives by seafood buyers, such as individual consumers, supermarket chains and restaurants, could prove more effective. Most seafood, from tuna and salmon to bay scallops, is on the verge of extinction.
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/ 2 November 2006
Alarmed by the results of a new study, United Nations experts on climate change are urging the world’s industrialised nations to introduce further cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions. The industrial world’s emissions of greenhouse gases are growing again, they said in a report released this week.
The George W Bush administration may like to see Iran face sanctions for its nuclear aspirations, but the political mood at the United Nations suggests that such punishment is not what the world community is ready for. ”We don’t think it will be helpful to bring the issue to the Security Council,” the Chinese ambassador to the UN, Wang Guangya, told reporters recently.
The Bush administration’s policies on indefinite detention and ”extraordinary rendition” are coming under fire from a number of institutions, including the United Nations, Amnesty International, and members of the United States Congress itself. ”The prohibition of torture is non-negotiable,” said UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.