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UN conference agrees on future steps to tackle climate change

10 December 2005
The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Montreal concluded today with the adoption of more than forty decisions that will strengthen global efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate change conference urges strategies to curb massive deforestation

9 December 2005
With 2 billion tonnes of carbon entering the atmosphere each year due to forest loss, accounting for 25 per cent of all man-made emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2), the United Nations climate change conference in Montreal today heard urgent pleas for financial incentives and other strategies to curb deforestation.

2005 sets record for weather-related disasters, UN climate conference told

7 December 2005
This year witnessed the largest financial losses ever as a result of weather-related natural disasters linked by many to human action, more than $200 billion compared to $145 billion in 2004, the previous record, according to statistics presented to the United Nations Climate Change Conference currently meeting in Montreal, Canada.

Bold, creative action to stem climate change is needed now, Fréchette says

7 December 2005
Citing evidence of climate change “all around us,” from declining Arctic ice to increasingly frequent extreme weather, with looming threats ranging from species extinction to human health hazards, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Louise Fréchette today called for “bold, creative” global action in response.

UN environmental body hails relocation of islanders threatened by climate change

6 December 2005
As part of the effort to combat the impact of global warming on vulnerable areas from the Arctic to the Himalayas to low lying islands, the United Nations environmental agency today heralded what may be the first case of a small island community to be formally moved out of harms way in the face of climate change.