The UN Development Program has just released the Human Development Report 2007/2008. To the title “Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world”, the 370-page document sends a clear message to the world: climate change is the 21st Century’s defining human development challenge. What we now decide to do about it will have […]
Archive for November, 2007
UN calls for human solidarity
Published November 29th, 2007 in Science and Climate & Weather. 8 CommentsSpain, the greatest European greenhouse gas emitter
Published November 25th, 2007 in Science and Climate & Weather. 3 Comments2005 was not a good year for the world’s 41 most industrialized countries, according to the latest estimates by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The study, which comes three days after the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the IV Report on global warming, speaks by itself. Greenhouse emissions by developed nations […]
UN warns climate change is here
Published November 18th, 2007 in Science and Climate & Weather. 4 CommentsTwo weeks before initiating a round of talks in Indonesia to re-negotiate the Kyoto Protocol, delegates from 130 countries have met in Valencia (Spain) this week and developed a 20-page report summarizing the many compromises required by governments before it is too late to reverse global warming.
The text, which puts together the most significant […]
Excess weight linked to cancer in women
Published November 11th, 2007 in Science and Body & Mind. 2 CommentsLast week Earth & Sky’s Executive Producer, Deborah Byrd, addressed in her blog a report that warned of the increased risk of cancer linked to excess weight.
This week a new study published online by the British Medical Association and the BBC has reported that obesity (BMI above 29.9) and overweight (BMI between 24.9 and 30.0) […]