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Un Chronicle: to Protect Succeeding Generations - Special Climate Change Issue
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- United Nations Staff, Corporate Author.
- Series:
- Un Chronicle Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Global warming.
- Sustainable development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (99 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] United Nations Publications 2009
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The UN Chronicle's special issue on climate change addresses various global challenges and responses related to environmental shifts. It explores topics such as rising sea levels affecting small islands, the rights of indigenous peoples, climate migration, health implications, and the role of women in climate security. Contributors include acclaimed novelists and experts who provide insights into the socio-economic impacts of climate change and potential solutions. The publication aims to raise awareness and foster dialogue on sustainable development and environmental resilience, targeting policymakers, educators, and the general public. Generated by AI.
- Contents:
- Table of contents
- Climate change and our common future
- Small Islands, rising seas
- A hypothesis of hope for the developing world
- Livelihoods in peril indigenous peoples and their rights
- Will there be climate migrants en masse?
- Will climate change impact the right to health & development?
- Is Africa ready?
- Freshwater in Latin America and the Caribbean
- A future for itself
- HIV / AIDS and climate change a pattern of response
- Beyond carbon markets
- Human security, climate change and women
- In the shadow of climate change
- The ecology of recycling
- A student’s wake-up call
- Greening the workforce
- Financial innovations and carbon markets
- Biotechnology — a solution to hunger?
- Global warming and surging glaciers
- Tracking climate change from space
- Unlayering of the ozone
- Chronicle library shelf
- The true costs of conventional energy
- Oil in a low-carbon economy
- Bare sanctuaries Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9789210555302
- 9210555309
- OCLC:
- 1409697330
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