Negotiators from 195 countries are due to get together Monday in Lima for the last main meeting of the U.N. climate negotiations on the road to a planned global warming deal in Paris next year. The two weeks of discussions start amid record-breaking global temperatures for the year to date. Moreover this process has been encouraged by recent developments such as a joint announcement on cutting … [Read more...]
New Steps towards an Asteroid Early-Warning Network
In September, during a workshop hosted by Secure World Foundation (SWF), several experts discussed strategies to get the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) moving. IAWN’s prime goal is to discover, monitor and warn governments about dangerous near-Earth objects (NEO) using optical and radar devices located on Earth and in space. In 2013, the whole world saw how real an astronomical … [Read more...]
2.2 Billion People are Poor or Near Poor
According to the 2014 Human Development Report released in Tokyo on Thursday by the United Nations Development Programme, more than 2.2 billion people are "poor or near-poor." It appears that 85 richest people have as much wealth as the 3.5 billion poorest, the United Nations said. The UNDP report has been published annually since 1990. It ranks 187 countries according to measures such as … [Read more...]