The report presents a mixed picture. Over the past 25 years, there have been notable improvements in child well-being in the group of countries examined in this report: steady decline in child mortality, overall reduction in adolescent suicide and increase in school completion rates. But the last five years have …
The obesity epidemic is spreading to low-income and middle-income countries as a result of new dietary habits and sedentary ways of life, fuelling chronic diseases and premature mortality. In this report we present an assessment of public health strategies designed to tackle behavioural risk factors for chronic diseases that are …
U.N. climate talks will struggle to agree new greenhouse gas targets next month unless they can solve a complex loophole where developed countries currently ignore emissions from logging plantation forests. Environment ministers from almost 200 countries will gather in Cancun, Mexico, from November 29 to December 10 to try to …
Developed countries at the 15th Conference had committed themselves to providing around $30 billion for 2010-12 The fund is for supporting developing countries' climate efforts No clarity on how donors will channel the NEW DELHI: Developed countries are failing to meet the funding pledges that they made at the Climate …
About 10 days from today, the parties to the UN climate convention will have another bash at hammering out an agreement to avert what they all agree is one of the gravest threats that the world faces in the decades ahead. Is there any chance that they will do better …
ABBC memo was leaked out recently; an e-mail written by Jon Williams, BBC world news editor, to his staff. According to the contents of the e-mail, BBC’s coverage of the Chile miners rescue operation has gone way over the agreed budget. The costs of newsgathering in Chile are likely to …
Ahead of the Cancun climate change conference, about 50 countries on Tuesday began discussions to decide on the best mechanism to ensure that existing technologies that help people in adapting to impacts of climate change are shared with countries that are likely to be the worst affected. An agreement on …
New Delhi: Ahead of the Cancun climate change conference, about 50 countries on Tuesday began discussions to decide on the best mechanism to ensure that existing technologies that help people in adapting to impacts of climate change are shared with countries that are likely to be the worst affected. An …
Over the course of 2010 we've seen international climate negotiations stalling. But at the same time we!ve seen many encouraging developments on climate action on a national level. More and more countries are recognising climate change as a real threat. A recent poll, for example, revealed that two thirds of …
ONE of the gestures that saved the UN climate conference in Copenhagen last December from complete meltdown was American support for the idea that, by 2020, $100 billion should be flowing from the north to the south every year to pay for emissions reduction and climate adaptation. In March Ban …
Developed countries need to do more, says China BEIJING: As the last round of negotiations before the year-end Cancun climate conference begins on Monday in Tianjin, a port city near here, Chinese officials played down the chances of a binding climate deal being reached this year, citing persisting differences between …
Oaxaca: A landslide buried some 300 homes in a poor, remote area of southwestern Mexico early on Tuesday, possibly killing hundreds of people while they slept. Heavy rains in mountainous Oaxaca state brought a giant swathe of earth down on homes in Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec, a town of 9,000 people, …
At least 280 crocodiles have escaped from a Mexican refuge near the Gulf of Mexico after heavy flooding caused by Hurricane Karl, Mexican media said Tuesday. The endangered Morelet crocodiles were on the roam in six coastal areas in the Mexican state of Veracruz and residents were told not to …
Nations including Democratic Republic of Congo are making surprise progress toward taking part in a $200 million project for slowing deforestation from late 2010, World Bank experts said. They also said Latin America, with forested nations around the Amazon, had strong incentives to take part since most of the continent's …
More than 500 years after Spanish priests brought wheat seeds to Mexico to make wafers for the Catholic Mass, those seeds may bring a new kind of salvation to farmers hit by global warming. Scientists working in the farming hills outside Mexico City found the ancient wheat varieties have particular …
