U.N. Predicts Urban Population Explosion
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By next year, more than half the worldâs population, 3.3 billion people, will for the first time live in towns and cities, a report said.
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A new report by the Paris-based International Energy Agency says world energy demand is expected to surge by up to 60 percent by the year 2030.
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Goals set a decade ago to cut world population growth and ensure women&#39;s rights could be missed without greater resources and political will, a UN report said on Wednesday.
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New York City must take aggressive action now to meet increased demand for energy, housing and transportation as America's largest city faces population growth of nearly 1 million over the next 25 years, officials said on Tuesday.
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15 September 2004 - The world has made genuine progress towards achieving the ambitious programme outlined at the 1994 Cairo population conference, a United Nations review released today finds, but a serious funding shortfall is obstructing efforts to
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The U.N. climate panel is set to issue its strongest warning yet on Friday that human activities are causing a damaging global warming likely to bring more heatwaves, droughts and rising seas.
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The risk of wars being fought over water is rising because of explosive global population growth and widespread complacency, scientists said on Friday.
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Goals set a decade ago to cut world  population growth and ensure women's rights could be missed  without greater resources and political will, a U.N. report  said on Wednesday.
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Failure to honour funding pledges to the UN means a world population explosion within decades, a report says.
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Environmental degradation is affecting health, nutrition and the natural world, says a flagship UN report.
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EMMA ALBERICI: United Nations officials fear the death toll could double as outbreaks of disease unleash a second wave of tragedy.
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SHANGHAI: A city forecast shows the third baby boom is expected in the next 10 years with annual newborns expected to reach a peak of 160,000 in 2014 and 2015.
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As the USA plans for the population growth from 2000 to 2030, the number of additional people it will have to accommodate looms large: 94 million.
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The US-based Population Reference Bureau (PRB) has predicted that the bulk of the world&#39;s population growth will occur in developing nations by 2050, despite higher rates of HIV/AIDS and infant mortality.
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London will leapfrog Paris and Chicago to become the fourth largest world city economy by 2020, a report says.
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EMEMBER the population bomb, the fertility explosion set to devour the world&#39;s food and suck up or pollute all its air and water?
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Think the inexorable spread of cities is a bad thing? Think again.