Agriculture is becoming less of a “toxic issue” in climate change discussions according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
World leaders are meeting at the COP21 summit in Paris this week in the hope of agreeing a universal deal which will help to reverse changes to the world’s climatic conditions.
World leaders meeting in Paris, France have been told they need to wake up to the severity of the dangers brought about by climate change.
Around 150 heads of state and government have gathered at the UN Climate Change conference in the hope of agreeing a deal which will, amongst other goals, keep global temperature rises to below two degrees Celsius.
Cristina Silveiro is in Paris and has sent this report.
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Planting trees is “part of the solution” to reversing climate change according to a young activist from Germany.
Teenager Felix Finkbeiner has been named a “climate justice ambassador” and is attending the UN Climate Change Summit currently underway in Paris, France.
He’s part of a group called "Plant for the planet" which is hoping to plant a trillion trees across the planet by 2020 as their contribution to reversing climate change.
More than 600 families are expected to benefit from a new solar power project supported by the UN in Tanzania.
The US$150,000 project, which is centred around the capital, Dodoma aims to help local communities mitigate the effects of climate change.
The UN Development Programme (UNDP) helped to launch the initiative, which includes innovative energy solutions, as well as new land and water use technologies.
The UN Secretary-General has said that he’s convinced world leaders will adopt an “ambitious” climate deal at a summit which begins in Paris, France on Monday.
Around 150 heads of state and government are expected to participate in the UN Climate Change conference, also known as COP21.
It’s hoped that a universal deal will be agreed to, among other goals, keep global temperature rises below two degrees Celsius.
The UN chief, Ban Ki-moon has made climate change issues a central focus of his tenure in office.
The West African countries hit by the deadly Ebola virus can’t recover from the ravages of the deadly virus without more help.
That’s the verdict of the UN’s Regional Inter-Agency Coordinator on Ebola, Peter Graaff.
The epidemic which led to around 11,000 deaths in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, beginning in December 2013, is mostly over, but just last week several new cases were reported.
Matthew Wells spoke to Mr Graaff, who is currently in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and asked him to describe the state of the battle against Ebola in the region.
The north-east Nigerian city of Maiduguri has more than doubled in size due to displacement caused by the extremist Boko Haram group.
And the UN’s most senior envoy on the Sahel region, Toby Lanzer, says that’s putting its services under immense pressure, with no one clear on when it will be safe to go home.
The plight of the internally displaced is just one of the issues that are getting worse, as the conflict being driven by the terrorist group continues.
Local public schools in Lebanon can accommodate only half of the 400,000 school-age Syrian refugee children in the country according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
More than four million people have fled Syria as a result of the four-year long civil war that has engulfed the country.
Many parents have arrived in Lebanon and are hoping that their children can receive a proper education.
Daniel Dickinson reports.
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As the Central African Republic prepares for the visit of Pope Francis to Bangui this weekend, the United Nations Refugee Agency, UNHCR, is urging the country’s warring groups to be inspired by the visit to rebuild the national reconciliation process after a wave of violence that has triggered an 18 per cent increase in the number of people displaced within the country since September.
The up-coming climate change conference in Paris shows that the international community “stands together” against terrorism.
That’s according to Wu Hongbo, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs.
He praised France’s “courage” for going ahead with the COP21 conference which begins on Monday, in spite of the deadly terrorist attacks of November 13.
