Press Conference


11 December 2006
Press Conference
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

PRESS CONFERENCE BY UNITED NATIONS FOREST FORUM


After nearly 50 years of deadlock, an international agreement on managing the world’s forests was close to being reached, experts involved in the week-long meeting of an ad hoc expert group drafting the instrument told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference today.

Press Conference
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

PRESS CONFERENCE ON WORLD DISTRIBUTION OF HOUSEHOLD WEALTH

 


The richest 2 per cent of the world’s adults owned more than half of global household wealth, while the bottom half owned barely 1 per cent, New York University economics professor Edwin Wolff said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.