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                    [Title] => UN: climate change costs to poor underestimated
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The cost to poor countries of adjusting to ever-hotter temperatures will be two or even three times higher than previously thought, the UN's environment agency said Friday — and that assumes a best-case scenario in which greenhouse gas emissions are dramatically reduced.

[DatePublished] => 2014-12-07 02:11:40 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1436556 [AuthorName] => Karl Ritter [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1393885 [Title] => UN: World not close to avoiding dangerous global warming [Summary] =>

The world still isn't close to preventing what leaders call a dangerous level of man-made warming, a new United Nations report says. That's despite some nations' recent pledges to cut back on carbon dioxide emissions.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-20 09:18:22 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1743093 [AuthorName] => Seth Borenstein [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1387265 [Title] => UN panel adopts landmark climate report [Summary] =>

The United Nations' expert panel on climate science on yesterday finished a report on global warming that the UN's environment agency said offers "conclusive evidence" that humans are altering the Earth's climate system.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-02 07:18:22 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1436556 [AuthorName] => Karl Ritter [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1254019 [Title] => Environmental crime wave costs world billions [Summary] =>

The illegal cutting of timber and the poaching of elephants and rhinos are part of a "rapidly escalating environmental crime wave" that international governments must combat by increasing cooperation, police and environmental officials said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2013-11-07 06:04:25 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1375262 [AuthorName] => Jason Straziuso [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1246665 [Title] => UN sees mercury use phase-out within 3 decades [Summary] =>

A new global treaty could eliminate within three decades the commercial use of mercury in everything from batteries, paints and skin-lightening creams to utility plants and small-scale gold mining, the head of the U.N.'s environment agency said Thursday.

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-18 07:34:49 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1404776 [AuthorName] => John Heilprin [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/5643/t1wf.jpg ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 915679 [Title] => Thailand's prime minister vows to end ivory trade [Summary] =>

Facing the possibility of sanctions, Thailand's prime minister vowed for the first time yesterday to work toward ending her country's trade in ivory.

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The world must clamp down hard on the illegal global wildlife trade, the head of the United Nations environment agency warned Sunday, calling it a

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A new and legally binding international treaty to reduce harmful emissions of mercury was adopted yesterday by more than 140 nations, capping four years of difficult negotiations but stopping short of some of the tougher measures that proponents had envisioned.

[DatePublished] => 2013-01-20 07:14:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 859568 [Title] => Urban biodiversity benefits human health and the environment [Summary] =>

Global urbanization will have significant implications for biodiversity and ecosystems if current trends continue, with knock-on effects for human health and development, according to a new assessment by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

[DatePublished] => 2012-10-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 799304 [Title] => Xinhua, UN institutions launch global media campaign on environment protection [Summary] =>

A global media campaign aimed at alerting the public across the world to the need for environment protection was launched here Sunday.

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