28 October 2008: The Conservation Agriculture Carbon Offset
Consultation, jointly organized by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization
(FAO) and the Conservation Technology Information Center, opened on 28 October
2008, and will conclude on 30 October, in West Lafayette, Indiana, US.
26 October 2008: In an article published in the Washington
Post newspaper, World Bank President Robert Zoellick outlines what it will take
for the aspiring candidates to the US presidency to be “a 21st-century Franklin
D. Roosevelt.”
24 October 2008: During the World Food Day observance at UN
Headquarters in New York, US, celebrated on 23 October, the heads of the UN,
the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Clinton Global
Initiative called for tackling the roots of the interrelated challenges of food
security, high energy prices and climate change.
24 October 2008: During a UN System Chief Executives Board
Meeting, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed the need to support the poor
amid the global financial crisis, warning that gains made towards achieving the
Millennium Development Goals could be reversed. The meeting brought together
Executive Heads of the UN specialized agencies, funds and programmes and the
World Bank and International Monetary Fund to undertake a wide-ranging
assessment of the ongoing global crisis in financial markets and the threat of
recession in the global economy.
23 October 2008: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UN
Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Kemal Dervis participated in an
informal discussion with five eminent economists at UN Headquarters in New
York, US, on 23 October 2008. The talks focused on the global financial crisis
and its expected impact on efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
21 October 2008: Speaking at the ninth Regional Consultation
Mechanism (RCM) meeting of UN agencies and organizations working in Africa,
which took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, UN Deputy Secretary-General
Asha-Rose Migiro warned that the global financial crisis, compounded by food
shortages and the effects of climate change, could “derail Africa’s prospects”
of attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
22 October 2008: The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has
launched a Green Economy Initiative, which seeks to respond to the global
economic downturn by focusing economic growth and job creation in environmental
industries.
18 October 2008: During a meeting on the sidelines of the
Francophonie Summit, which convened in Quebec City, Canada, from 17-19 October
2008, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and French President Nicolas Sarkozy
agreed on the need to hold an emergency G-8 summit to address the financial
crisis and ensure that its negative impact on the world’s economies does not
undermine the major UN efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, to
fight against the effects of climate change and to address the food crisis.
16 October 2008: On World Food Day (WFD), the heads of UN
agencies called attention to the ongoing crisis of hunger and its
interrelations with climate change and rising fuel prices.
16 October 2008: World Food Day 2008 (WFD), which was
celebrated on 16 October, was marked by events around the world addressing the
theme “World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy.”
The main ceremony was held at UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
headquarters in Rome, Italy, including a statement by FAO Director-General
Jacques Diouf (see related story), a message from Pope Benedict XVI, and a
keynote speech by Egypt’s First Lady Suzanne Mubarak.
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