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UNITED NATIONS, Environmental demands grow for peacekeeping troops
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/rss/2009/08/11/1 Nathanial Gronewold, staff reporter UNITED NATIONS Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's visit today to Goma, a city in the heart of the war ravaging the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is meant to draw attention to renewed U.S. ...
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Refugees Join List of Climate-Change Issues
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/world/29refugees.html?r=1 By NEIL MacFARQUHAR Published: May 28, 2009 UNITED NATIONS — With their boundless vistas of turquoise water framed by swaying coconut palms, the Carteret Islands northeast of the Papua New Guinea mainland might seem ...
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Warming and Death
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/warminganddeath/ May 29, 2009, 11:34 AM Warming and Death By ANDREW C. REVKIN There are significant questions about the robustness of the numbers at the heart of the new report estimating more than 300,000 deaths are already being caused ...
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NYTimes Editorial, Gloom, but Not Doom
EDITORIAL Gloom, but Not Doom http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/opinion/04thu1.html?ref=opinion There's been a fair amount of handwringing since the nation's intelligence community surveyed the world of 2025: America losing dominance; China and India rising; fierce competition for water, food and energy ...
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Do more, invest more in mitigating impact of natural disasters, Ban tells world
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/VDUX7K9SKS?OpenDocument&RSS20= 18P Much more needs to be done and much greater funding made available to mitigate the devastating toll of natural disasters in an age when climate change threatens to increase both ...
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Early Recovery to mitigate emergency response, MADAGASCAR
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79331 JOHANNESBURG, 18 July 2008 (IRIN) In Madagascar, where community resilience and livelihoods are continuously eroded by cyclones, floods and drought, the gap between emergency humanitarian action and development assistance can become too ...
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UN chief calls for review of biofuels policy
Julian Borger, diplomatic editor The Guardian,Saturday April 5 2008 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/05/biofuels.food The UN secretarygeneral, Ban Kimoon, has called for a comprehensive review of the policy on biofuels as a crisis in global food prices partly caused by the increasing ...
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World warned on food price spiral
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/indepth/7288959.stm UN Secretary General Ban Kimoon has said he is deeply concerned about the sharp rise in global food prices. Mr Ban said the trend would hinder progress towards the millennium ...
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Event,The United Nations and Climate Change, New Divisions
SIPA: The United Nations and Climate Change: New Divisions Date: March 04, 2008 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm EST Location: Columbia University Morningside Campus International Affairs Building, Room 1501 420 ...
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Forests Vanishing Swiftly in Haiti
Jonathan M. Katz Associated Press Sunday, February 17, 2008; Page A22\\ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2008/02/16/AR2008021602 511.html GRAND COLLINE, Haiti, Feb. 16 \\ Far from the spreading slums of the Haitian capital, past barren ...
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