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World Health Organization and H5N1 Influenza
31 December 2011 Temoignages.re
«H5N1 influenza viruses are a significant health risk to people for several reasons. Although this type of influenza does not infect humans often, when it does, approximately 60% of those infected die. In addition, because these viruses can cause such severe illness in people, scientists are especially concerned that this type of influenza could one day mutate so it spreads easily between people and causes a very serious influenza pandemic. Research which can improve the understanding of (...)
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World Health Organization
14 December 2011 Temoignages.re
However, WHO warns that a projected shortfall in funding threatens the fragile gains and that the double challenge of emerging drug and insecticide resistance needs to be proactively addressed. "We are making significant progress in battling a major public health problem. Coverage of at-risk populations with malaria prevention and control measures increased again in 2010, and resulted in a further decline in estimated malaria cases and deaths," says Dr Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General. (...)
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Turn Their Backs On Canadian Government During Opening Speech
8 December 2011 Temoignages.re
“Our so-called Environment Minister entered these talks by going on record that he would be defending the tar sands. I have yet to hear him say that he's here to defend my future,” said James Hutt, one of the youth delegates who participated in the action. The six youth, including Brigette DePape (the “Rogue Page”) received an ovation from the crowd watching the Minister's address. They were escorted out of the International Convention Center's (...)
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United Nations Climate Talks
1 December 2011 Temoignages.re
Oxfam, WWF and the International Chamber of Shipping (which represents over 80% of the world merchant fleet) call on delegates to COP 17 to give the International Maritime Organization (IMO) clear guidance on continuing its work on reducing shipping emissions through the development of Market Based Measures (MBMs). The organisations maintain that an effective regulatory framework for curbing emission of CO2 from international shipping must be global in nature and designed so as to reduce (...)
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United Nations Climate Talks
1 December 2011 Temoignages.re
On the eve of the opening of the Durban Climate Conference, Ambassador Dessima Williams, Permanent Representative of Grenada to the United Nations and Chair of AOSIS cautioned that if Durban puts off a legally binding agreement and closes the door on raising mitigation ambition before 2020 many of our small island states will be severely threatened. “AOSIS is calling on the Durban conference to deliver agreement on a second five-year commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol, a (...)
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HIV/AIDS
30 November 2011 Temoignages.re
"It has taken the world ten years to achieve this level of momentum," says Gottfried Hirnschall, Director of WHO's HIV Department. "There is now a very real possibility of getting ahead of the epidemic. But this can only be achieved by both sustaining and accelerating this momentum over the next decade and beyond." Advances in HIV science and programme innovations over the past year add hope for future progress. In times of economic austerity it will be essential to rapidly apply (...)
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According to the president of COP-17
23 November 2011 Temoignages.re
UNFCCC Executive Secretary, Christiana Figures, has signalled that progress on adaptation at COP 17 is imperative, particularly for African nations: “As Africa is one of the most vulnerable regions in the context of climate change, the African continent has much to gain from strengthened and coordinated adaptation action, which will be so desperately needed as climate change effects such as droughts and floods increase even further than where they are now”. Progress will be (...)
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Durban Climate Conference
23 November 2011 Temoignages.re
here are myriad opportunities to benefit people directly, while at the same time contributing to global efforts to control emissions or enhance adaptation capacity, and these opportunities have already been seized by many stakeholders, at national or sub-national levels. Under a new initiative entitled ‘Momentum for Change', the secretariat will create a series of platforms to recognize and encourage such projects. The first platform of the series focuses on successful and (...)
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World Meteorologic Organization’s Bulletin highlights growth in nitrous oxide in atmosphere
22 November 2011 Temoignages.re
Between 1990 and 2010, according to the report, there was a 29% increase in radiative forcing - the warming effect on our climate system - from greenhouse gases. Carbon dioxide accounted for 80% of this increase. “The atmospheric burden of greenhouse gases due to human activities has yet again reached record levels since pre-industrial time,” said WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud. “Even if we managed to halt our greenhouse gas emissions today – and this is far (...)
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Commissioner for Human Rights - Council of Europe
22 November 2011 Temoignages.re
In response the government in “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” has decided to criminalise “abuse of the European Union visa-free regime and of the Schengen agreement”. It has also determined that those who have been forcibly returned as failed asylum seekers could have their passports temporarily confiscated. Other countries in the region have also taken steps to prevent certain people from travelling to EU countries. Those who seek to leave for the EU (...)
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An oil spill turns into an environmental disaster in the Niger Delta
16 November 2011 Temoignages.re
Shell must commit to pay an initial US$1 billion to begin the clean-up of pollution caused by oil spills in the Niger Delta, Amnesty International and the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) said today. A new report by the two groups released today, The true tragedy: delays and failures in tackling oil spills in the Niger Delta looks at the ongoing devastation caused by two major oil spills which took place at Bodo, Ogoniland, in 2008, and which have never been (...)
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New York
16 November 2011 Temoignages.re
At least half a dozen journalists were among those arrested in and around Zuccotti Park and at other protest sites in downtown Manhattan, according to demonstrators and other journalists who photographed and filmed their peers being taken into custody. Reporter Karen Matthews and photographer Seth Wenig of The Associated Press in New York were detained for about four hours after they followed protesters through an opening in a chain-link fence into a separate park owned by a church. (...)
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14 November 2011 Temoignages.re
Our captured government won't do its job. It doesn't keep Wall Street and banks and giant corporations from ripping us off and doesn't prosecute them after they do. It doesn't stop polluters - even as the effects of climate change increase. It doesn't enforce employment and labor laws, so all of us who work fall further and further behind. It doesn't take care of those in need even as more and more of us are in greater and greater need. It just helps the (...)
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12 November 2011 Temoignages.re
Nov. 10 marked the one-month anniversary of Occupy Oakland - the political, social, and economic protest and encampment against corporate greed, social inequality and police brutality, which took over Frank Ogawa Plaza, in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York. But instead of a planned birthday celebration, the Occupy camp turned into a somber vigil, after a late-afternoon outbreak of violence turned deadly, resulting in a fight that led to the shooting of a young man (...)
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Noncommunicable diseases for over 63% of deaths in the world today
19 September 2011 Temoignages.re
A new World Health Organization (WHO) study reveals that low income countries could introduce a core set of strategies to prevent and treat cancer, heart disease, diabetes and lung disease for just US$1.20 per person per year. "Noncommunicable diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide, killing ever more people each year. Nearly 80 per cent of these deaths occur in low and middle income countries," says Dr Ala Alwan, Assistant Director-General for Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental (...)
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The African Ministerial Conference on the Environment
17 September 2011 Temoignages.re
On behalf of the UNFCCCís Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres, I am honoured to address this important meeting of the African Ministers of Environment. Ms. Figueres deeply regrets not being here in person, but scheduling conflicts have made it impossible. You meet here less than three months before the UN Climate Change Conference takes place under African skies at the end of the year. As you know all too well, the Durban conference is a critically important step on the road to a (...)
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Cancer, heart disease and stroke, lung disease and diabetes
17 September 2011 Temoignages.re
"This report indicates where each government needs to focus to prevent and treat the four major killers: cancer, heart disease and stroke, lung disease and diabetes," says Dr Ala Alwan, Assistant Director-General for Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health at WHO. The report includes details of what proportion of each country's deaths are due to noncommunicable diseases. Using graphs in a page-per country presentation format, the report provides information on prevalence, trends (...)
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World Health Organization
18 April 2011
17 April, after a week of negotiations continued through Friday night and into Saturday morning, an open-ended working-group meeting of Member States successfully agreed upon a Framework that ensures that in a pandemic, influenza virus samples will be shared with partners who need the information to take steps to protect public health. The working-group meeting was convened under the authority of the World Health Assembly and coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO). The new (...)
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Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC
17 February 2011
Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) noted that the level of ambition, currently on the table, amounted to only 60 per cent of what was needed to limit the temperature increase to the agreed 2 degrees but stressed that a 2 degree increase was no guarantee for the survival of small island states. She pointed out that no agreement was reached on the year in which global emissions needed to peak. 'This is (...)
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According to the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen
5 February 2011
For millions of years the Earth's climate has alternated between about 100,000 years of ice age and approximately 10-15,000 years of a warm climate like we have today. The climate change is controlled by the Earth's orbit in space, that is to say the Earth's tilt and distance from the sun. But there are also other climatic shifts in the Earth's history and what caused those? Dramatic climate change of the past By analysing the ice cores that are drilled through the (...)
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