And 4 billion people experience severe water scarcity for at least one month each year.” The organizational ... UN DESA launched a global online stakeholder consultation collecting additional ...

Scientists who study global environmental ... energy demand (Cohen 1995). Burning fossil fuels releases about 8.5 billion tons of carbon (as CO 2) into the atmosphere each year, causing its ...

Warm water has caused severe bleaching of coral reefs over the past year, fueled tropical and subtropical storms and exacerbated the loss of sea ice. The rate of global mean sea-level rise has ...