YemisrachBA | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 03 2007 | World, humanitarian, climate change, internation environmental policy
The Bali climate conference will look at a new deal to be put in place after 2012, when the first phase of the Kyoto Protocol (KP), a commitment made in 1997 by 36 industrialised countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least five percent against the baseline of 1990, expires.
YemisrachBA | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 14 2007 | people, world, humanitarian, environment, urban risk, early warning
Pete, I think you will find this interesting...although the future strategy is debatable!
Over 70 percent of Yemen’s 21 million inhabitants still live in rural areas, but rapid urbanisation is fast emerging as a considerable challenge for this largely desert nation - one of the driest, poorest and least developed countries in the world.
Quoted: Sanaa today extends well beyond the ancient clay walls. In 1975, the city’s population was 135,000. Today it is over two million and, according to government estimates, growing at a rate of 7 to 8 percent a year. At around 3.5 percent, Yemen’s population growth rate is one of the highest in the world today.
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