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UNITED NATIONS, Environmental demands grow for peacekeeping troops (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative ) 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. ... Other labels: blog, peacekeeping, environment

Refugees Join List of Climate-Change Issues (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative ) 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 ... Other labels: blog, climate, security

Warming and Death (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative ) 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 ... Other labels: blog, sachs, climate, security

NYTimes Editorial, Gloom, but Not Doom (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative ) 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 ... Other labels: blog, security, nic

Do more, invest more in mitigating impact of natural disasters, Ban tells world (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative ) 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 ... Other labels: blog, disaster, mitigation, climate

Early Recovery to mitigate emergency response, MADAGASCAR (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative ) 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 ... Other labels: blog, madagasacar, early, recovery, disaster, climate, prevention

UN chief calls for review of biofuels policy (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative ) 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 ... Other labels: blog, food, security, climate, biofuels

CIESIN Attends UN Climate Change Expert Meeting (Newsroom) March 18, 2008 CIESIN senior staff associate Alex de Sherbinin participated in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Expert Group Meeting on socioeconomic information under the Nairobi Work Programme on Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate ... Other labels: ciesin, climate, socioeconomics

World warned on food price spiral (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative ) 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 ... Other labels: blog, food, security, mdg, wfp, africa

Event,The United Nations and Climate Change, New Divisions (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative ) 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 ... Other labels: sipa, climate, events