Though census data are patchy, the UN estimates that in 2009, Africa’s population reached 1 billion. The UN further estimates the population will nearly double by 2050, a massive boom that could represent an unbearable burden on food, health care and other resources — unless rising urbanization and education grow to meet the demands of [...]
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The last of India’s dancing sloth bears is now unemployed and will live out its days in a sanctuary set up by animal-welfare groups. The sloth bears were poached to the verge of extinction for use as performers. Owners were paid to turn the bears over to conservationists.
India outlawed sloth bear performances in 1972, [...]
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - U.N. climate talks ended with a bare-minimum agreement on Saturday when delegates “noted” an accord struck by the United States, China and other emerging powers that falls far short of the conference’s original goals.
“Finally we sealed a deal,” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. “The ‘Copenhagen Accord’ may not be everything everyone had [...]
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”Let us speak plainly, I would have liked more. This will not solve the threat of climate change. But it is a first step, an important step”, said Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt at a press conference after the end of the meeting on Friday night.
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According to a senior Obama administration official the United States, China, India and South Africa have reached a “meaningful agreement” on climate change Friday evening.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the agreement had not yet been officially announced.
COPENHAGEN — President Obama announced here on Friday night that five major nations, including the [...]
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“Ministers have to be very clear and focused over the next 48 hours if we are to make it,” said conference president Connie Hedegaard of Denmark.
The conference so far has been marked by sharp disagreements between China and the United States and deep divisions between rich and poor nations.
Trying to ease the tension, U.N. [...]
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Human Rights Day 2009 on 10 December will focus on non-discrimination. “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights”. These first few famous words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights established 60 years ago the basic premise of international human rights law. Yet today, the fight against discrimination remains a [...]
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