The number of heritage sites at risk has grown to 62 from 35 in 2014 — nearly double the number from just three years ago
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Scientists and green campaigners say the peatlands hold gigatonnes of carbon — a stockpile that poses a threat to hopes of limiting global warming.
2017 is on track to be the hottest year on record except for two warmed by El Nino phenomena, the UN’s World Meteorological Organisation said Monday.
Climate change is real and it has already impacted Fiji — only urgent action is needed, said Fiji’s Prime Minister at UN climate talks this week.
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/ 2 December 2011
The gathering of world leaders at the International Afghanistan Conference in Bonn on December 5 is timely.
International action on climate change looks likely to drift over the next two years as politicians waver on tougher carbon caps.
At the UN Climate Change Convention talks held in Bonn recently 192 countries met to discuss long-term cooperative action to address climate change.
Barack Obama’s negotiators make their debut at UN climate talks on Sunday, but many nations have rowed back on plans, focusing instead on the economy.
Governments broadly support tough 2050 goals for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions but are split on how to share out the reductions.
When some multinational companies dump chemicals into the sea, they call it ”ocean fertilisation”. This practice is near the top of the agenda at the United Nations conference on biological diversity in Bonn that ends on Friday. Practically all developing countries want the conference to approve a moratorium on ocean fertilisation.
The United Nations urged far tougher action to fight climate change at a 166-nation climate conference on Monday, the first after reports warning of growing damage from droughts, floods or rising seas. More than 1Â 000 government delegates at the May 7 to 18 meeting will try to find ways to break gridlock in international negotiations.
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/ 30 October 2006
Greenhouse-gas emissions by the industrialised world are still rising, with the United States firmly entrenched as the biggest polluter. In an annual update on global-warming pollution, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change said that, compared with the benchmark year of 1990, the 41 industrialised countries it monitors trimmed their emissions by 3,3% by the end of 2004.
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said on Tuesday certain ”major powers” should play a bigger role in the world body, but declined to name favourites for any new permanent seats on the Security Council. ”I have always maintained that no reform to the UN will be complete without a reform of the Security Council.,” Annan said.
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/ 19 February 2006
Computer users need a special removal tool to rid their computers of the Nyxem computer worm. The tool seeks out and neutralises the worm, says Anja Hartmann, of the German Federal Agency for Information Technology in Bonn. As the pest can deactivate anti-virus software, that software should be reinstalled.
German internet security experts declared victory on Monday in a bid to head off a computer virus before it spreads through millions of personal computers worldwide. Sober.P is the computer worm that sent neo-Nazi German-language e-mails on to hundreds of thousands of computers last week.
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/ 9 November 2004
A man in Germany received a tax bill for the equivalent of -million after filing a tax return for income of just 000 dollars, a court heard on Tuesday. The bill was the result of a simple typographical error by the Federal Tax Office in the Bonn suburb of Sankt Augustin, a judge at Bonn State Court heard.
Germany has nominated fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm to join the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation’s Memory of the World list to preserve the gothic stories adored by generations of children, officials said on Wednesday. Memory of the World is an initiative to defend the world’s cultural and documentary heritage.
Violinists from Bonn’s Beethoven Orchestra have decided not to go ahead with their groundbreaking legal action in which they were suing for higher wages because they felt they played more than their colleagues in the woodwind and brass sections.
A unit of DaimlerChrysler is planning to launch a tiny two-seater car on the US market in 2006, and is reviewing whether to introduce the make, the Smart, in China, according to the German magazine Automobilwoche on Sunday.
The al-Qaida terrorist network has strengthened its operations in Europe in recent months and poses a tangible threat on the continent, German security experts say.