The UN’s trade and development body has downgraded its global economic growth projection for 2022 to 2.6% from 3.6% due to the Ukraine war and to changes in macroeconomic policies made by countries in recent months. While Russia will experience a deep recession this year, significant slowdowns in growth are …
The chief of the United Nations has conceded that a deal in Copenhagen on climate change might not include promised financial aid for developing countries, an admission that will infuriate poorer nations and potentially scupper a broad-based agreement. Ban Ki-moon, secretary-general of the UN, told the Financial Times in an …
HARDEV SANOTRA The head of World Meteorological Organisation Michel Jarraud said the rising global temperatures posed a problem for the extreme weather, even though 2009 was not so The year 2009 was a benign year, as far as climate disasters are concern. The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), a …
Should we be concerned that the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference is not going to produce a concrete plan to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions? Lots of people clearly are. Indeed, while activists prepare to unfurl protest banners, politicians are scrambling for a face-saving way to declare the summit a success. They should …
DESPITE the gloomy talk that preceded the UN climate conference, the opening was upbeat. Most big countries had vowed to cut or limit emissions during the previous few weeks. As delegates arrived, America
The biggest climate meeting in history, with 15,000 participants from 192 nations, opened in Copenhagen on Monday, with hosts Denmark saying an unmissable opportunity to protect the planet was
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When Barack Obama, US president, decided late last week to attend the final stages of the fortnight-long United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen, which begins on Monday, the gasp of relief from delegates heading to the Danish capital was almost audible. Mr Obama
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The United Nations scheme was agreed under the 1997 Kyoto protocol as a key part of the overall strategy to fight global warming. It awards tradeable carbon credits to projects that reduce developing countries' greenhouse gas emissions - such as wind farms. Each credit, known as a Certified Emission Reduction, …
The UN body in charge of managing carbon trading has suspended approvals for dozens of Chinese wind farms amid questions over China's use of industrial policy to obtain money under the scheme. China has been by far the biggest beneficiary of the so-called Clean Development Mechanism, a carbon trading system …
United Nations: With over 1 billion people going to bed hungry, the United Nations has warned that the hunger index is rising and appealed to governments and civil societies to
Lamenting the fact that developed countries were shying away from their responsibilities in tackling climate change, Minister of External Affairs S M Krishna has said the
RASHME SEHGAL Underinvestment by successive goverments has seen a marked decline in agriculture across both developing and developed countries, warns the UN's recently released World Investment Report which focuses on transnational corporations, agricultural production and development. The total share of invest I ment in agriculture has fall en from a …
Failure to find agreement at United Nations climate change talks in Copenhagen in December would threaten a much needed overhaul of the international trading system, Pascal Lamy, head of the World Trade Organisation, warned yesterday. His comments highlighted concerns that a breakdown in discussions about reducing greenhouse gas emissions might …
It will cost between $500 billion and $600 billion every year for the next 10 years to allow developing nations to grow using renewable energy resources, instead of relying on dirty fuels that worsen global warming, according to a United Nations report released Tuesday. That astronomical estimate, far higher than …
Research into clean energy technology should get a leading role in new U.N. climate pact ahead of ever tougher curbs on greenhouse gas emissions, a study said on Friday. "We need to start talking a lot more about the technological revolution," said Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish statistician and author of …
Adapting to the effects of climate change such as floods and droughts will probably cost many times more than the United Nations estimates, a report said on Thursday ahead of a major U.N. summit in December. The U.N. climate change secretariat, UNFCCC, puts the global costs of adaptation, through measures …
