UN report urges environmental response - Yahoo! News: "The international community must respond more quickly to climate change, species extinction, dwindling supplies of fresh water and other threats to the planet, the U.N. Environment Program warned Thursday.
The U.N. agency said in a report that nations still fail to recognize the seriousness of environmental threats to the planet. Prepared by 390 experts over five years, the report reviews progress made since a similar one in 1987.
The global response in the two decades since 'has in some cases been courageous and inspiring,' UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner said before the report's release in London.
'But all too often it has been slow and at a pace and scale that fails to respond to or recognize the magnitude of the challenges facing the people and the environment of the planet.'"
Thursday, October 25, 2007
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