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UN panel calls for end to extreme poverty by 2030
Posted by Associated Press: Edith M. Lederer on May 31st, 2013
Associated Press: A high-level U.N. panel recommended an ambitious roadmap Thursday to tackle the world's major challenges, from climate change to equality for women, with a key goal of ending extreme poverty everywhere by 2030.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed the panel last year to recommend a new development agenda after the U.N. Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs, expire in 2015. World leaders agreed in 2000 on anti-poverty goals including cutting extreme poverty by half, halting the HIV/AIDS...
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UN: Sandy shows need for action on climate change
Posted by Associated Press: Edith M. Lederer on November 10th, 2012
Associated Press: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday that one of the main lessons from Superstorm Sandy is the need for global action to deal with future climate shocks.
Ban told the U.N. General Assembly that it is difficult to attribute any single storm, like Sandy, to climate change.
"But we all know this: extreme weather due to climate change is the new normal," he said. "This may be an uncomfortable truth but it is one we ignore at our peril."
With a new round of global climate talks set to begin...