Providing toilets, safe water is top route to reducing world poverty: UN University
United Nations University Tokyo Japan / Hamilton, Canada 19-Oct-2008 Simply installing toilets where needed throughout the world and ensuring […]
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Environmental migrants: UN meeting aims to build consensus on definitions, support, protection
United Nations University Tokyo, Japan 8-Oct-2008 A growing international consensus to formally recognize and protect people uprooted by environmental problems
Experts meet on need for new rules to govern world’s fragile polar regions
United Nations University Tokyo 7-Sep-2008 A new co-ordinated international set of rules to govern commercial and research activities in both
Rising energy, food prices major threats to wetlands as farmers eye new areas for crops
United Nations University 25-Jul-2008Critical food shortages and growing demand for bio-fuels and hydro-electricity due to high fossil fuel prices rank
Massive greenhouse gases may be released as destruction, drying of world wetlands worsens: UN
United Nations University 20-Jul-2008 700 leading experts convene at edge of Brazil’s vast Pantanal to take stock, offer policy prescription
Coastal management cooperation, enforcement key to avoid pending crisis for millions: UN experts
United Nations University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton Canada June 4, 2008 Current coastal management practices are ineffective
Indigenous peoples hardest hit by climate change describe impacts
United Nations University – Institute of Advance Studies Yokohama 2-Apr-2008 Biofuel production, renewable energy expansion, other mitigation measures uprooting indigenous
Sanitation investment in poor countries would yield $9-to-1 benefits in productivity, health: UN
United Nations University / International Year of Sanitation 20-Mar-2008 Experts estimate that $9 in productivity, health and other benefits are
Great potential to improve collection, recycling of Europe’s electronic waste, says UN report
United Nations University 15-Nov-2007 Low collection rates and consumer awareness, rising need to harmonize regulations, UNU advises European Commission Only
Human clones: New U.N. analysis lays out world’s choices
United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies, Yokohama, Japan 10-Nov-2007 Report says ban on human reproductive cloning, coupled with restricted
Restoring soils vital to feed world, forestall climate change: experts
Soil Conservation Service of Iceland, Reykjavik, and United Nations University 30 Aug 07 Protecting soils claimed as an immediate fix
Desertification: UN experts prescribe global policy overhaul to avoid looming mass migrations
United Nations University 27 Jun 07 Desertification, exacerbated by climate change, represents “the greatest environmental challenge of our times” and
Gene hunters, patent prospectors leave indigenous communities in Pacific feeling besieged, betrayed
19-Mar-2007 United Nations University Book catalogues unethical research, gene theft in Pacific countries The Pacific region has experienced some of
UN, industry, others partner to create world standards for e-scrap recycling, harvesting components
6-Mar-2007 United Nations University Growing need for elements in high-tech scrap –- often incinerated in poor countries Standardizing recycling processes
Experts advise world policies to cope with causes, rising consequences of creeping desertification
14-Dec-2006 United Nations University Joint International Conference Algiers, Dec. 17-19 About 200 experts from 25 countries are convening in Algiers
Pioneering study shows richest 2 percent own half world wealth
5-Dec-2006 United Nations University The richest 2% of adults in the world own more than half of global household wealth
Child soldiers: If children are not prosecuted for war crimes, are they more likely chosen by warlords to perform the worst atrocities?
24 Oct 06 United Nations University Some 300,000 combatants under age 18 – some as young as six and 40%
Landslides: Asia has Most; Americas, the Deadliest; Europe, the Costliest; Experts Seek Ways to Mitigate Losses; Danger Said Growing Due to Climate Change, Other Causes
17 Jan 06 United Nations University Asia suffered 220 landslides in the past century – by far the most of
Ranks of ‘environmental refugees’ swell, calls grow for better definition, recognition, support
11 Nov 05 United Nations University Amid predictions that by 2010 the world will need to cope with as many
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Many of 2 billion dryland dwellers at risk as land degrades
16 Jun 05 United Nations University Growing desertification worldwide threatens to swell by millions the number of poor forced to
Clear rules needed to govern deep sea bioprospecting: UNU
08 Jun 05United Nations UniversityVast genetic resources – “blue gold” on the international deep seafloor – need protection from unfettered
Bridging the digital divide by making computers for kids as common as pencils
15 May 05 United Nations University A global education system in which a fully portable personal computer is as common