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The UN's top climate negotiator voiced optimism Monday that a deal can be salvaged next month at world talks on global warming, but said US President Barack Obama must offer a target and financing.
Tackling climate change should also include providing low-carbon energy to the poor, UN agencies said Monday, pointing out that almost one third of the world?s population remains in the dark at night.
Greenhouse gas emissions have kept increasing, reaching a record level since the pre-industrial era, the UN climate agency warned Monday, just weeks before a crucial climate change summit.
The UN's top climate negotiator voiced optimism Monday that a deal can be salvaged next month at world talks on global warming, but said US President Barack Obama must first get on board.
The UN's top climate official voiced optimism Monday that some kind of agreement could be salvaged at world talks on global warming next month, sensing US President Barack Obama will come with a target and financing.
Write a new 10 Commandments of the Internet, Peter proposed, and draft them on a tablet PC on Mount Sinai. The "Peter" in question was Internet historian Ian Peter, and the place was the UN-backed Internet Governance Forum 2009 held last week in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, a few kilometers from Mount Sinai. Peter's model for his proposed commandments isn't Moses, but the engineers and computer ...
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations says the remains of British hostage Alec Collett, who disappeared in 1985 during Lebanon's civil war, have been identified.
Greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere reached record highs in 2008, with carbon dioxide levels increasing faster than previously, the U.N. weather agency said Monday.
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- The following table lists the cumulative number of laboratory-confirmed human cases of the swine flu strain of influenza formally know as H1N1 as reported to the Geneva-based World Health Organization. Total cases are current as of Nov. 15, 2009.
New York - United Nations Security Council members said Monday the political situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina has further deteriorated because of continued divisions in the top leadership in Sarajevo. A report by High Representative Valentin Inzko, th...
Hundreds of people jammed into a Monrovia church to mourn a Liberian United Nations worker killed in an October attack by Taliban gunmen in Afghanistan's capital.
President Obama, along with China's Hu Jintao and India's Singh, have yet to confirm their attendance.
Communal violence has claimed at least 100 lives and displaced 53,000 people since the end of October in the Democratic Republic of Congo's northwest Orientale province, the UN reported Monday.
The United States plans to join other developed nations in presenting an emissions target at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen, a senior administration official said Monday.
The body of a United Nations worker, who had been missing for 24 years, has been found in eastern Lebanon, a representative of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday.
Since the 1997 international agreement to address global warming, climate change has seen its ups and downs, including extremely bleak warnings.So far, the world’s oceans have raised an inch and a half, serious droughts have plagued parts of the world, temperatures everywhere are warmer, and several endangered species continue to be threatened."The latest science is telling us we are in more ...
It's the end of the world as we know it.... ....and I feel fine! GENEVA - Greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere reached record highs in 2008, with carbon dioxide levels increasing faster than previously, the U.N. weather agency said Monday.
The State of the World’s Children report, published by UNICEF, has just this week issued a special edition of the report in commemoration of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Released on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Convention’s adoption by the UN General Assembly, “The Convention on the Rights of the [...]
Sure, Adam Lambert, Jennifer Lopez and Whitney Houston are grabbing all the AMA headlines -- but there were other good performances last night that should not be forgotten.We've compiled our Top 5 most underrated performances from the 2009 American Music Awards. Let us know if you agree in the comments!5. DaughtryPoor Chris Daughtry. Who can keep up with perennial Idol juggarnaut Kelly Clarkson ...
The remains of British hostage Alec Collett, who disappeared in 1985 during Lebanon's civil war while working for the United Nations, have been positively identified, the U.N. announced Monday.
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency says greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere hit record highs last year. And, the World Meteorological Organization also says carbon dioxide levels rose slightly faster than over the last decade.
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