U.N. Warns of Rapid Decay of Environment
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The human population is living far beyond its means and inflicting damage to the environment that could pass points of no return, according to a major report from the U.N.
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LONDON, Oct 20 (IPS) - Environmental and development groups have come   together to warn that global warming threatens the Millennium  Development  Goals.
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UNITED NATIONS -- To head off the worst of climate change, governments must pour tens of billions of dollars more than they are into clean-energy research and enforce sharp rollbacks in fossil-fuel emissions, an expert scientific panel reported to the United Nations on Tuesday.The U.N.
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 24--U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said Monday that a 15-year international effort to stem global warming has failed to halt the buildup of greenhouse emissions and called for governments to undertake "unprecedented action" to reverse the trend.
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Urbanisation and population growth are threatening the goal of improving water access, UN bodies warn.
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A global crisis of bird flu will threaten animal and human life in the near future, UN agencies warn.
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Even a limited nuclear exchange would cause global famine and destroy much of the ozone layer for years, a new study says.
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An international panel of climate scientists said yesterday that there is an overwhelming probability that human activities are warming the planet at a dangerous rate, with consequences that could soon take decades or centuries to reverse.
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VIENNA, Aug 28 (IPS) - Human-made emissions of greenhouse gases believed  to provoke damaging climate change must peak in the next 10 to 15  years, and be reduced afterwards by well over 50 percent from  current levels until 2050, a top UN climate official said here  Tuesday.
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Hundreds of millions of livelihoods will be affected by the world's declining ice and snow cover, the UN warns.
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The rapid growth of slums in the  world's towns and cities is increasing urban poverty and  creating a breeding ground for terrorism, fanaticism, pollution  and disease, the United Nations said on Friday.
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The world's poor, who are the least responsible for global warming, will suffer the most from the effects of climate change, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told global environment ministers on Monday.
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Desertification could drive tens of millions of people from their homes, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and central Asia, a U.N. study warned on Thursday.
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The UN secretary-general warned that violence against women has reached "hideous" levels in some countries trying to recover from conflict
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The world's poor, who are the least responsible for global warming, will suffer the most from climate change, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told environment ministers from around the world on Monday.
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UN scientists have delivered their starkest warning yet about global warming, saying fossil fuel pollution would raise temperatures this century, worsen floods, droughts and hurricanes and melt polar sea ice.
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The chairman of a UN conference on climate change warns that poor countries need urgent help to stave off the effects of global warming.