Posts Tagged ‘United Nations’
Asian countries ahead in green investment
May 4th, 2010 | 
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NEW YORK, May 4 (UPI) -- Asian nations particularly China and South Korea are ahead of other major world economies when it comes to the "green" investment portion of economic and employment recovery plans, says a new book co-published by the United Nations.
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Tags: Ahead, Asian Countries, Asian Nations, Book Co, China, Investment New, Recovery Plans, South Korea, United Nations, Upi, World Economies | 
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Energy & Global Warming News: Kerry insists US to move on cl
climate; the weapons industry is going green? Feb 24, 2010: Senator John Kerry vowed the United States would overcome the odds & approve action on climate change, as the United Nations set talks for April to help break a diplomatic logjam. Without offering a timetable, Kerry on Tuesday rejected assertions that it had become politically impossible f
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Bold, Decisive Folly
This December, world leaders will gather in Copenhagen for the United Nations Climate Change Conference. There they—and we—will be told that if they don’t take “decisive” or “bold” measures, catastrophes of biblical proportions await humanity. Happily, this is not the only take on the subject coming out of Copenhagen these days. Bjorn Lomborg, a former supporter of Greenpeace, believes that “panic is neither warranted nor a constructive place from which to deal with any of humanity’s p
Fired UN envoy claims third of Hamid Karzai votes fraudulent
Jon Boone in Kabul and Ed Pilkington in New York The Guardian/UK , Oct 4, 2009 Peter Galbraith accused his former chief at the UN, Kai Eide, of deliberately playing down the level of cheating in the election. Photograph: Toby Talbot/Associated Press A former senior United Nations diplomat in Kabul has made a scathing attack on the UN’s handling of Afghanistan ’s disputed elections, claiming that almost one in three of the votes cast for president Hamid Karzai were fraudulent.
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Canada’s Dirty Old Deal
Last week the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) published an update for the G20 Summit on its call from earlier this year for a Global Green New Deal . This update showed that Canada is close to the bottom in the stimulus funds it is committing to green economic areas. According to the UNEP, only 8% of Canada’s stimulus spending is going to “green” areas (energy efficiency, renewable energy, sustainable transport, sustainable agriculture, and ecological infrastructure) compared t
