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Copenhagen climate summit in disarray after 'Danish text' leak
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 1 day ago
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Developing countries have reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will next week be asked to sign an agreement that hands more power to rich countries. Photograph: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images The UN Copenhagen climate talks...
Tags: developing countries, rich countries, climate change, world leaders, poor countries, copenhagen climate, kyoto protocol, react furiously, Denmark, Copenhagen, Environment, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Diplomatic conferences, European Union, Carbon finance, Carbon dioxide, Seal the Deal!
Govt to act on climate change:polls
Ho Chi Minh City :: Vietnam | 4 days ago
Credibility A poll of 15 nations, most of them in the developing world including Bangladesh, finds that majorities of the people want their governments to take steps to fight climate change, even if that entails costs...It questioned 13,518 respondents in 15 nations�...
Tags: climate change, IMF, poor countries, developing countries, Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, Environment, Diplomatic conferences, World Bank, Carbon finance, Global warming, International Monetary Fund, Carbon dioxide, Kyoto Protocol
UN says hunger stunts some 200 million children
Lagos :: Nigeria | 11 days ago
Credibility The head of a U.N. food agency called on the world to join him in a day of fasting ahead of the summit to highlight the plight of 1 billion hungry people. Jacques Diouf, director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization, said Wednesday he hoped...
Tags: U.N. Children, UNICEF, FAO, Jacques Diouf, poor countries, million children, stunts growth, South Asia, Nigeria, Lagos, Hunger, Food politics, Malnutrition, Food and Agriculture Organization, Business Finance, Food security, World Summit on Food Security, world food price crisis, Ann Veneman
Poorer nations get swine flu jabs
Columbus :: OH :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Millions of doses of the vaccine against H1N1 are being donated by pharmaceutical companies. A group of rich nations have also pledged to donate 10% of their vaccine purchases to poorer countries. The latest figures reported to the WHO suggest more than...
Tags: swine flu, flu vaccination, poorer countries, Marie-Paule Kieny, rich nation, flu shots, seasonal flu, World Health Organization, nasal spray, poor countries
IMF $13bn gold sale to aid poor states
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility IMF approves $13bn gold sale to aid poor states The International Monetary Fund has approved a sale of 403 metric tonnes of gold reserves, in a move likely to raise $13bn (£8bn) of cash to replenish its coffers for lending to low-income countries hit...
Tags: IMF, International Monetary Fund, executive board, commodity market, poor countries, approved sales, gold sales, imf approved, Washington
IMF head sees dawn of global recovery
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility He credited governments with shoring up the IMF's ability to help out those facing chronic budget shortfalls. "This policy response, coupled with the dawning of a global recovery, leads me to be hopeful," Strauss-Kahn told the Washington-based Centre...
Tags: IMF, income countries, International Monetary Fund, imf chief, global recovery, Strauss-Kahn Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Pittsburgh, poor countries, Washington
World Bank: Poor Face Long Recovery
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility In a paper prepared for the meeting of the Group of 20 nations next week in Pittsburgh, the bank said the sharp drop in trade, remittances, tourism and capital flows caused by the global downturn has forced governments in the poorest nations to cut spending...
Tags: World Bank Group, Pittsburgh, poorest countries, president robert, economic downturn, poor countries, Washington
Dying To Give Birth: Afghanistan's Hazards
Dying to Give Birth: Afghanistan's Hazards One in six women in Afghanistan dies in childbirth-20,000 a year. Afghanistan is the world's second highest rate of infant mortality, right after Liberia. It is estimated that 60 infants per 1,000 births...
Tags: Afghanistan, childbirth, poor countries, poor maternal cae, high infant mortality, tragedy in Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Africa, government policy, UNICEF, DEATH, Badakhshan, Faizabad
G8 pledges to boost food supplies
Rome :: Italy | 5 months ago
Credibility On the last day of the G8 summit in Italy, the US president and his peers tried to answer criticism they had turned their backs on those most vulnerable to the global economic crisis and held talks with African leaders. As Obama prepared to embark on...
Tags: Hosni Mubarak, L'Aquila, billion dollars, poor countries
Obama to conclude summit talks, meet with pope
Rome :: Italy | 5 months ago
Credibility Global problems, Africa and the pope all figure in President Barack Obama's day. He's in Italy, where the three-day G-8 summit on climate change and the economy is wrapping up. Obama and leaders of the other industrial powers meet with African leaders,...
Tags: Italy, L'Aquila, African, world leaders, Barack Obama, g8 summit, poor countries, world hunger, west tackles, West
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