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UN information resources on Haiti
Resources on Haiti / Informations sur Haïti is a web portal to UN information resources on Haiti created by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library at the United Nations, New York. It contains news, reports from the United Nations and its specialized agencies, resolutions, statements and meeting records.
United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen
Represenatitives from 192 nations meet in Copenhagen for the United Nations Climate Conference - The 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The aim of the Conference is a new global agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol. The agreement will serve as a global deal to limit greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. In order to reduce carbon emission worldwide the wealthier nations nations must agree to help poorer countries to deal with climate change.
The Copenhagen Accord - advance unedited version and draft text.
For further information,
see
- Official website of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen COP 15/CMP 5 7 to 18 December 2009
- United Nations Climate Conference Dec 7 - Dec 8 2009 COP15 Copenhagen - the Conference website posted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
- UNFCCC- The United Nations Climate Change Secretariat
- Landmark UN climate change conference kicks off in Copenhagen- Press Release from December 7 2009
- Conference Documents - COP15
- Gateway to the UN System's Work on Climate Change
- Cool Planet - web site created by the United Nations Regional Informations Centre for Western Europe
Se also DagDok: Environment and Sustainable Development
UN on Youtube
The United Nations provides daily new through its television channel UN Channel on Youtube.
UN Yearbook goes online
Yearbook of the United Nations has been the primary reference work on the Organization since 1946. It details the many activities of the Organization and its organs, programmes and bodies, as they are carried out in all corners of the globe. The Collection includes every volume published since 1946 with a detailed subject index including bibliographical notes and references.
Since October 2008 the complete full text collection of The United Nations Yearbooks is available online at http://unyearbook.un.org/ .
The database provides free public access to the 59 volumes of the Yearbook collection, detailing the work and achievements of the United Nations system over the first 60 years of its existence (1946-2005).
Sweden hosts the first Iraq Compact Annual Review Conference
The International Compact with Iraq (ICI) is an international partnership aimed at supporting the political process in Iraq needed to create stability and support the strengthening of democracy and respect for human rights.
The ICI is led by the government of Iraq and co-chaired by the UN.
The ICI was launched in Sharm el-Sheikh on 3 May 2007. The first Annual Review Conference takes place in Stockholm on May 29, 2008.
For further information, see:
Fact Sheet on The International Compact with Iraq
United Nations News Centre. New Focus: Iraq
Mid-Year Progress Report
Security Council resolution 1770
UN News Centre 29 May 2008
See also:
DagDok: Iraq War
The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali
The United Nations Climate Change Conference took place in Bali, Indonesia, from 3 to 14 December. Delegates from over 180 nations, together with observers from intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations, met to draft a plan to replace the Kyoto protocol, which expires in 2012.
After two weeks of bitter disagremments and accusations a compromise was reached: "the Bali roadmap" contains text on emissions cuts, the transfer of clean technology to developing countries, halting deforestation and helping poorer nations protect their economies and societies against impacts of climate change.
For further information,
see:
United Nations Climate Change Conference
UN News Centre
Se also:
Human Development report 2007/2008. Fighting climate change. Human solidarity in a divided world
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
DagDok: Environment and Sustainable Development
The United Nations and Google to fight poverty
The United Nations has teamed up with Google and Cisco to launch a new web site - the MDG Monitor.
The site will provide data and information on global efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) - eight goals to be achieved by 2015 that respond to the world's main development challenges, approved by world leaders at a UN Summit in 2000.
The site includes Google Earth's map and satellite imagery to fly anywhere on the planet and explore where work is being done to achieve these goals.
For further information, see:
MDG Monitor
UN Millennium Development Goals
UN News Centre
DagDok: Human Rights Conventions and Declarations. Millennium Declaration
Documentation
For daily UN news, press releases, statements, briefings and calendar of events, consult the UN News Centre at the UN official web site.
News Focus, posted on the UN official web site, serves as a guide to essential resources on UN issues in the news.
New UN online information, documents, reports and publications are posted at UN Pulse, a news service from the Dag Hammarskjöld Library at UN Headquarters in New York.