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Political Inertia Exacerbates Water Crisis, Says World Water Development Report

United Nations University / UNESCO 5 March, 2003 First UN system-wide evaluation of global water resources Faced with “inertia at the leadership level”, the global

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SARS Crisis Highlights Need for Ethical Framework to Guide Decisions During Infectious Outbreaks

Joint Center for Bioethics, University of Toronto Responding to important challenges raised by Toronto’s handling of the SARS crisis, experts from the University of Toronto

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Greater public role in health care spending decisions needed more than extra money to cure ailing system

Joint Center for Bioethics, University of Toronto Amid mounting pressure for a massive injection of funds into Medicare, one of Canada’s leading medical policy think

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Experts rank top 10 biotechnologies for improving global health within 5-10 years

Joint Center for Bioethics, University of Toronto First list of priority technologies to avoid looming ‘genomics divide’      between rich and poor countries Millions

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New guidelines for MDs draw line between relief of suffering and euthanasia

Joint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto 12 Sept 2002 Peter A. Singer Intensive care unit physicians need to be comfortable prescribing drugs in whatever dose is

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New UNU ads broadcast on CNN International

United Nations University September 2002 A third series of television public service announcements about UN University’s work to promote sustainable development is being broadcast to

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UN Oceans Atlas Provides First Comprehensive Real-Time Tool To Observe State Of World’s Oceans

5 June, 2002 United Nations Washington / Rome / Paris – The UN and leading international scientific agencies will launch on June 5 (World Environment

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War, exploitation and pollution threaten mountain ecosystems, says UNU expert

United Nations University 27 January, 2002 Dr. JackUNU Update_ Mountain ecosystems at risk Hans van Ginkel The degradation of mountain ecosystems — home to 600

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Mountain Ecosystems Endangered: War, exploitation and pollution threaten freshwater source for half of world’s population

United Nations University, Tokyo The degradation of mountain ecosystems – home to 600 million people and the source of water for more than half the

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Great Lakes “starting to exhale,” cleansing themselves of accumulated chemicals

Environment Canada, Toronto 28 September, 2001 With lower pollution levels in the air, Lakes start to “out-gas” PCBs, pesticides Significant quantities of chemicals, including PCBs

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Lessons From the 1997-98 El Nino: Once Burned, Twice Shy?

United Nations University 27 Oct 2000 Thousands of human casualties and tens of billions of dollars in economic damage will continue to befall the world’s

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Greening the WTO: Five Things the World Trade Body Should Do — And One it Should Not

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Winnipeg Canada’s International Institute for Sustainable Development, in a departure from the position adopted by most organizations dealing in

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Environmental Crisis As Seen By World Youth: “Don’t Treat Earth As Poorly As Parents Have”

United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi Pachamama, Our Earth, Our Future, is launched as educational guide for youth to environmental problems, solutions The Earth’s condition is

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Africa may be able to feed just 40% of its population in 2025

United Nations University,  Institute for Natural Resources in Africa Soil Infertility, Malnutrition at Root of Half of African Child Deaths Today; Needed to Bring Land

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Global Biodiversity Outlook 2000: UNEP launches definitive study of global environmental crisis – concludes time is running out

United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi Today, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) launches Global Environment Outlook 2000 (GEO-2000) – the most authoritative assessment ever of

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Blueprint to Solve Global Forest Crisis Presented by Top World Leaders World Commission Proposes New Political Structure to Save World’s Forests

World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development Ola Ullstein The world can satisfy its material needs from forests without jeopardizing their ecological services, says the

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Unsafe Water: 3.3 Billion Illnesses and 5.3 Million Deaths Yearly Price Tab for Safe Water $50 to $105 Per Person

United Nations University, Tokyo 18 March 1999 Clean, safe water can be brought to the 1.4 billion people around the world without it for as

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Canadian-based U.N. Water/Environment Program Reports Year 2 Progress to International Advisors Meeting at McMaster

UNU-INWEH, Hamilton, Canada First UNU-INWEH news release, 1998, click here “I am pleased to learn of the progress made to date by UNU/INWEH and proud

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