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MDG summit on 25th of September |
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Written by Admin
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Tuesday, 05 August 2008 09:03 |
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 The UN Secretary-General and the President of the UN General Assembly will convene a High-level Event on the Millennium Development Goals at UN Headquarters in New York on 25 September 2008. At the halfway point towards the target date, significant progress has been made, but urgent and increased efforts are needed by all stakeholders in order to meet the Goals by 2015. The High-level Event will be a forum for world leaders to review progress, identify gaps, and commit to concrete efforts, resources and mechanisms to bridge the gaps. By asking world leaders to announce their specific plans and proposals, the High-level Event will help accelerate implementation and follow-through. Moreover, the Event will send a message to the Doha Review Conference from the highest political level, on strengthening the global partnership for development and building consensus on financing for development.
Website: http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/2008highlevel/ |
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The problems of water management are at the heart of an integrated crisis of global development that includes climate change and food insecurity, says Mike Muller. The global food crisis of 2007-08 has propelled governments and international agencies into a series of emergency responses, designed both to meet the needs of desperate citizens in many of the world's poorest countries and to maintain their own authority in face of a surge of popular protest. The flurry of activity and discussion around the issue has tended to deflect attention from the global problems associated with the source of food: water. If the questions of agriculture, land use, supply, distribution and price that lie at the heart of the food crisis are to be addressed, the clouds over the world's water future must also be taken far more seriously (see Paul Rogers, "The world's food insecurity", 24 April 2008). |
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The world will experience a growing risk of conflicts over food, energy and water in coming years. The population rises each year by about 80 million people, with most of the increase in impoverished regions already facing environmental stress. Climate change, water scarcity and tighter oil supplies will add to the stresses. As violence increases, in new crises resembling those now underway in Darfur, Somalia and Afghanistan, the tendency might be to look to the military for solutions. We'll need to keep in mind that engineers and doctors will be the only ones who can truly keep us safe. Hundreds of millions of people live on the margin of survival, and their numbers will increase if we continue on our current trajectory. The poorest of the poor tend to be found in remote, environmentally stressed regions, such as the drylands of Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, which is evident in Yale and Columbia's Environmental Performance Index. In these places, droughts are becoming more frequent and land more scarce. Rural populations head for the slums in cities unequipped to provide jobs, safe water, sewerage and other basic services. |
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Written by Administrator
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Wednesday, 09 July 2008 23:30 |
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The Junior 8 Summit, or "J8", is an annual forum where young people from around the world meet and discuss global issues, and share their solutions with G8 leaders and the world community. The Summit is a parallel young people’s event to the annual Group of 8 (G8) Summit, where leaders from eight major industrialized democracies (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States) meet to discuss global issues of major concern. The aim is to strengthen the voice of young people. |
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