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China, France Call for Five-Year Reviews in Climate Deal
December 04, 2015
Reuters reports that the Presidents of China and France have agreed to push for five-year reviews of countries' progress on implementing a UN climate agreement seeking to limit greenhouse gases currently under negotiation in Paris.
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Poor Countries Are Ill-Equipped to Spend Climate Aid
December 04, 2015
Reuters reports that developing countries that have received funding to mitigate and adapt to the effects of global warming lack the capability to implement measures to deal with the phenomenon.
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WHO Points to Catastrophic Health Effects of Climate Change
December 04, 2015
Head of public health at the UN's World Health Organization ("WHO") Maria Neira has warned of a long train of negative health effects caused by global warming, including strokes, lung cancer, risks from natural disasters, food and water shortage, and infections.
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OSCE Official Issues Warning on Use of UK Anti-Terror Law
December 03, 2015
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's ("OSCE") Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic has expressed her concern regarding the potential "chilling effect" on the freedom of the press of the UK's use of anti-terror legislation to seize the computer of a journalist corresponding with the Islamic State.
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OSCE Stresses Climate Change as Security Threat
December 03, 2015
At a recent "Security Days" event in Vienna, Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") Lamberto Zannier warned that climate change is "posing significant and growing risks to security" and that there must be global efforts toward "mitigation and adaptation" of the phenomenon to contain these risks.
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