Thursday, January 31, 2008

The role of the UN (II)


Last post was on the technical cooperation role of the UN. There are two others, analysis and policy. Today´s post is on analysis.

Climate change is a big thing today, but we humans still do not know exactly what are the threats, the risky areas and the consequences. A series of reports including the major elements of Climate Change are being produced. For example, one has been issued today on coral reefs.

Worldwide 500 million people depend on healthy coral reefs for sustenance, coastal protection, renewable resources, and tourism, with an estimated 30 million of the world’s poorest people depending entirely on the reefs for food. Two thirds of the world’s coral reefs are under severe threat.

Knowing more on this would result in better policy making , more prevention mechanisms and more efficient disaster management, and the report ends with recommendations for action in these three levels.

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