PARIS, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- Representatives attending
the environmental conference held in Paris on Saturday called for a stronger and
more genuine international environmental organization to better deal with the
climate challenges.
"We hope to establish a new world
environmental organization which goes along the lines with the World Health
Organization. It should be more powerful and recognized by the whole world,"
said the "Paris Appeal" released by the "Citizen of the Earth" summit.
The full-fledged UN environmental agency will be an
instrument for promoting new technologies to protect eco-systems and supporting
the implementation of world environmental policies, said the appeal.
Addressing the conference, French President Jacques
Chirac also called for a new world environmental body to replace the existing UN
Environment Programme (UNEP) in order to strengthen the international control
over the environment.
His proposal received support from more than 40
countries.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the conference
that dealing with climate challenges had been on the top of his agenda.
"Environmental problem is a global issue. It has
threatened our efforts in maintaining world peace and security. Only coordinated
international actions could tackle the problem," he said.
Nearly 200 government officials, environmental
campaigners and business leaders attended the "Citizen of the Earth" summit held
from Feb. 2 to Feb. 3 in Paris.
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UN panel report blames human activities for global
warming
PARIS, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) --
Human activities are heating the earth which would bring more disasters to human
beings, warned a report of the United Nations climate panel on Friday. It was
very "likely" or a probability of more than 90 percent that human activities led
by burning fossil fuels had facilitated the warming in the past half century,
said the final text of the report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC), world's most authoritative group on the study of global
warming.
Report: For sure, humans cause global
warming!
BEIJING, Jan. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- A climate report to be
released next month will say an "explosion of new data." It will reveal evidence
that human-caused global warming is visible in the air, water and melting ice
and is destined to get much worse in the future.
Warming oceans make it tough for fish to
breath
BEIJING, Jan. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- Recently completed research
reveals warmer oceans caused by global warming is making it more difficult for
eelpouts to breath and survive. Biologists have known for years declining fish
stocks are connected to global warming, but a new study of eelpouts --
big-headed fish that resemble eels -- is the first to go deeper and see how
warmer seas are connected to how fishes take in oxygen.
UK scientists: 2007 might be warmest year on
record
BEIJING, Jan. 5
(Xinhuanet) -- British climate scientists predict that 2007 might be the world's
hottest year on record because of a resurgent E1 Nino climate trend combined
with higher levels of greenhouse gases. "Even a moderate (El Nino) warming event
is enough to push the global temperatures over the top," said Phil Jones,
director of the Climatic Research unit at the University of East Anglia
Thursday.
Global warming advocates target Exxon Mobil.
Corp.
BEIJING, Jan. 4 (Xinhuanet)
-- A report by the Union of Concerned Scientists on Wednesday claims Exxon Mobil
Corp. gave 16 million U.S. dollars between 1998 and 2005 to ideological groups
to promote its view that the science behind global warming is faulty.
U.S. gov't proposes listing polar
bears as threatened
BEIJING, Dec. 28(Xinhuanet) -- The United States proposed Wednesday to list
polar bears as "threatened" on government list of imperilled species, marking
the first time the Bush administration has singled out climate change as the
potential driving force behind the demise of a species.
