Topic: United Nations
Six Greenpeace campaigners were arrested on the sidelines of the UN climate conference on Monday as they protested against corporate responsibility for carbon emissions.The six were detained as they tried to hang a banner reading "Listen to the People, not the Polluters" ...
Storms and drought that have unleashed dangerous surges in food prices could be a "grim foretaste" of what lies ahead when climate change bites more deeply, Oxfam said on Monday.In a report issued at the start of the UN climate talks here, ...
Civil defense officials across Central America were on high alert as the heavy rain that has pounded the region for more than a week showed no sign of abating.More than 80 people have been killed over the past week in mudslides and ...
With nations facing gaping shortfalls meeting pledges on climate change, several governments and activist groups are pushing to put a price on shipping emissions to fund aid to poor countries.Commercial ships virtually always run on fossil fuels and produce nearly three percent ...
Farm chiefs have a narrowing chance to diversify vital crops at rising threat from drought, flood and pests brought by climate change, food researchers warned on Monday.The world's nearly seven billion people are massively dependent on a dozen or so crops that, ...
Urbanization is the driving force behind global commodities demandAs a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information We have crossed a critical threshold. The demand we are now placing on our planets resources ...
Forests play a larger role in Earth's climate system than previously suspected for both the risks from deforestation and the potential gains from regrowth, a benchmark study released Thursday has shown.The study, published in Science, provides the most accurate measure so far ...
Administrators tasked with running the UN's talks on climate change have put out the begging bowl to help implement deals that in theory could reach a hundred billion dollars a year.The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is asking its 194 ...
BONN (Reuters) - Tighter limits on soot and smog provide a quick and easy way to fight global warming while protecting human health and raising crop output, a U.N. study said on Tuesday.It outlined 16 measures, ranging from plugging leaky gas transport ...
OSLO (Reuters) - Rising forest density in many countries is helping to offset climate change caused by deforestation from the Amazon basin to Indonesia, a study showed on Sunday.The report indicated that the size of trees in a forest -- rather than ...
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