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CLIMATE CHANGE - The executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, has warned that prompt action is needed to keep climate change from "spinning out of contr...

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CLIMATE SUMMIT - World leaders must act quickly to combat climate change, the head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, said as negotiators gathered in Durban, South Af...

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UNITED NATIONS - Farmers the world over must produce 70% more food by 2050 in order to feed a projected population of 9 billion, even though a quarter of all arable land is highly degraded, acc...

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ENVIRONMENT - More than two million lives can be saved each year by implementing the cost-effective measures presented in a United Nations report released today, which would help reduce black c...

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HIV/AIDS - The Global Fund to Fight HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria has cancelled its next round of funding and cut off countries like Russia, China and Brazil after donors failed to deliver US$2...