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The global food crisis, climate change and pandemic influenza are the main threats to human health, the UN health agency says.”These three critical events, these clear threats to international security, have the potential to undo much hard-won progress in public health,” WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said on Monday.
Speaking at the opening of the 61st session […]

Insufficient food, climate change and pandemic flu are global crises which could unravel progress in public health, the World Health Organisation’s director general said Monday.”These three critical events, these clear threats to international security, have the potential to undo much hard-won progress in public health,” WHO director general Margaret Chan told delegates from 193 member […]

A two-week conference aimed at ensuring the survival of diverse species around the world in the face of climate change and pollution opened on Monday with delegates from more than 190 nations.”In my view, climate change and the loss of biodiversity are the most alarming challenges on the global agenda,” German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel […]

Development campaigners have accused the UK government of making a stealth cut to an £800m fund designed to help poor countries adapt to climate change.Ministers said they were proud to have set a moral lead when the Environmental Transformation Fund was launched.
The government now says an unspecified amount will go out as interest-free loans but […]

Is this a price blip? No. A food shortage? Not that either. Farmers across the world produced a record 2.3 billion tonnes of grain in 2007, up 4% on the previous year. Since 1961, the world’s cereal output has tripled, while the population has doubled. Stocks are at their lowest level in 30 years, it’s […]

There are risks to global warming policy as well as risks to global warming, and although the former could be costlier than the latter, they are often neglected in climate change debate. While it may seem far-fetched to some that responding to the “climate crisis” could do more harm than good, it is in fact […]

Major agricultural countries must urgently change their policies to avoid a social explosion from rising food prices, a panel of United Nations experts warned Tuesday, adding their voices to new concerns about the proper balance between saving the environment and feeding the poor.”Modern agriculture will have to change radically if the international community wants to […]

Scientists warned Thursday that climate change in coming decades will cause more floods in the Northern Hemisphere and droughts in the south and in arid areas, which may lead to a global food crisis.Areas that will suffer water shortages include the Mediterranean Sea basin, the western U.S., parts of southern Africa and northeastern Brazil.
Intergovernmental Panel […]

The Victorian Government has launched its Land and Biodiversity Green Paper, outlining a vision of how to revitalise the state’s land, water catchments, and agriculture.Environment Minster Gavin Jennings says the paper builds on the work of Victoria’s climate change summit, to encourage the community to take a role in protecting the environment.
But the spokeswoman for […]

Exerts say that climate change was a global issue and its link with sustainable development and security (food, water, energy, social) was crucial. The climate problem could not be resolved through environment policy, but has to be integrated with development, said Dr Adil Najam, a renowned scholar and a distinguished professor at the Boston University, […]