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Compliance Body Set Up For Kyoto Protocol On Reducing Greenhouse Gases
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) announced that a Compliance Committee for the Kyoto Protocol, the environmental treaty aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, has begun operations, with an enforcement branch dealing with countries having difficulties meeting their commitments.
Tue, 11/08/2011 - 11:10 — admin
United Nations Refugee Agency and Dutch Fundraising Agency Help Bhutanese Refugees In Nepal Shift To Solar Power
In an unusual partnership announced on February 3, 2006, the United Nations refugee agency has linked up with a Dutch fundraising agency to help Bhutanese refugees living in Nepal move to clean energy through solar power.
Tue, 11/08/2011 - 11:04 — admin
United Nations Agency to Back One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Project to Distribute $100 Laptops
Aiming to give poor communities access to the benefits of information technology, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has announced plans to support an innovative project which aims to put cheap and energy-efficient laptop computers in the hands of the world's most disadvantaged students.
Tue, 11/08/2011 - 11:03 — admin
Sporting Greats Donate Mementos To Auction To Benefit United Nations Agencies
Track and field fans around the world will have a unique chance next week to buy their own piece of sporting history when the personal mementos of some of athletics' most famous moments go on Internet auction, with the proceeds to go to three United Nations humanitarian agencies.
Tue, 11/08/2011 - 11:00 — admin
UN atomic agency’s Nobel Prize funds cancer care, nutrition in developing world
The United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), this year’s Nobel peace Prize co-laureate, announced today that its €525,000 share of the award will be used to create a fund for fellowships and training to improve cancer management and childhood nutrition in the developing world.
Tue, 11/08/2011 - 10:59 — admin
United Nations Teams to Deployed to Help Katrina Recovery Efforts
The United Nations has mobilized three inter-agency teams to aid the United States’ recovery from Hurricane Katrina and further deployments may occur within the next few days, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said today.
Tue, 11/08/2011 - 10:56 — admin
United Nations Offers Help To United States In Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina's Devastation
The top United Nations emergency relief official has offered the United States the world body’s help in “any way possible” following the loss of life and large-scale destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina along the US Gulf Coast.
Tue, 11/08/2011 - 10:55 — admin
French government donates life-saving supplies for people in Niger
As the United Nations Children’s Fund moves quickly to expand its emergency response to the food shortage crisis in Niger, the French Government has donated to the agency some 1.7 tons of essential drugs and other life-saving supplies to help save tens of thousands of children and their families facing starvation.
Tue, 11/08/2011 - 10:51 — admin
Japan Helps Fight Hunger in Africa
Japan declared it would double its aid to Africa in the next three years as well as increase the volume of its official development assistance (ODA) by US$ 10 billion in aggregate over the next five years.
Tue, 11/08/2011 - 10:50 — admin
World Food Programme Airlifts Life-Saving Rations To Niger
As the international humanitarian response to Niger’s severe hunger crisis gathers pace, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced today that a series of airlifts will deliver life-saving emergency rations to feed 80,000 victims of the country’s intensifying emergency.
Tue, 11/08/2011 - 10:47 — admin
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