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ClimateUN blunt message to climate summit: “Either we stop it — or it stops us”
Glasgow/New York, November 1 – In his address opening the climate summit in the Scottish city of Glasgow UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged the 197 ...
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ClimateMethane Observatory Launched to Boost Action on Powerful Climate-Warming Gas
Rome, October 31 – The UN Environment Program, with support from the European Union, has launched a new observatory to drive action on reducing methane ...
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ClimateNewsClimate summit faces major challenges to revert global warming
Glasgow/New York, October 30 – The United Nations climate conference in the Scottish city of Glasgow faced negative views that it may not be able ...
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NewsUN issues urgent appeal for help as Afghanistan faces world’s largest food crisis; current funding “a drop in the ocean”
Rome/New York, October 25 – Years of conflict, drought, economic woes and the recent accumulation of Covid-19 health problems have made Afghanistan home to one ...
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ClimateBeijing Conference: sustainable transport infrastructure can reduce carbon emissions, develop economy
Beijing/New York, October 16 – Infrastructure has become a major international issue as its components are responsible for greenhouses gas emissions and adaptation costs
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HealthWHO resolves to vaccinate 70 percent of world population by mid-2022, close rich-poor pandemic gap
Geneva/New York, October 7 – The World Health Organization has launched a global vaccination strategy that calls for meeting targets of vaccinating 40 percent of ...
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NewsUN: Life-saving humanitarian aid to 7 million people in Ethiopia crippled by fighting, road blockades and cash shortage
New York, October 6 – The United Nations Security Council was told that UN operations to bring life-saving humanitarian aid to 7 million people in ...
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NewsUrgent action needed to prevent large armed conflict in Myanmar and beyond, UN says
New York, September 30 – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said an international response is urgently needed to prevent a catastrophic military conflict in Myanmar that ...
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HealthNewsUPDATE: US urges world powers to “go big” on vaccines, orders 500 million doses for developing countries; WHO says not enough
New York/Washington, September 22 – US President Joe Biden, who has ordered over 500 million vaccine doses from Pfizer-BioNTech to donate to developing countries, has ...
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NewsUPDATE: US pledges to work with UN and all countries; China calls for “new type” of international relationship
New York, September 21 – US President Joe Biden pledged to work with the United Nations to build a future and uphold human rights for ...
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NewsUS President Biden pledges to work with UN and all countries, denies seeking a new Cold War
New York, September 21 – US President Joe Biden pledged to work with the United Nations to build a future and uphold human rights for ...
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ClimateRich countries urged to donate $100 billion a year to fight climate change; UN warns of disaster if earth warms up to 1.5 degrees Celsius
New York, September 20 – The United Kingdom, which will host the next conference on climate change in November, appealed to rich countries to donate ...
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