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Environmental issues and sustainable development

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Concluding Eighth Session, UN Forum on Forests Calls for Urgent Coordinated Action to Combat Biodiversity Loss, Other Looming Environmental Threats

All 192 Member States of the United Nations agreed on the need for intensified global action to protect the world’s forests from a series of environmental threats, including climate change, loss of biodiversity and desertification, as the United Nations Forum on Forests concluded its biennial meeting this weekend on the brink of the upcoming climate change negotiations in Copenhagen.
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As Countries Reel from Multiple Crises, Sustainable Agriculture, Rural Development Central to Achieving Poverty Reduction, Sustainable Development Commission Told

With countries around the world reeling from economic turmoil, food insecurity, and the threat of climate change, the Netherlands’ Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality today told delegations “this is the time to act” to make sustainable agriculture and rural development central to achieving lasting development and poverty reduction, as the Commission on Sustainable Development opened its seventeenth session.