WASHINGTON – In the more than two decades since world leaders first got together to try to solve global warming, life on Earth has changed in stark ways.
Carbon dioxide emissions are up 60 percent. Global temperature is up six-tenths of a degree. Population is up 1.7 billion people. Sea level is up 3 inches. Extreme weather in the United States is up 30 percent. Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are down 4.9 trillion tons of ice.
Diplomats began talks Monday at a United Nations global warming conference in Lima, Peru, to pave the way for an international treaty they hope to forge next year.
To see how much the globe has changed since the first such international conference in 1992, The Associated Press scoured databases from around the world. –Associated Press
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World Day for Safety and Health at Work
“Safety and health at work every day!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations against serious violations of Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government
(NUG) of Myanmar.
Reject Military!
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Monthly Observances:
March – Women’s Role in History Month
April – Month of Planet Earth
Weekly Observances:
Last Week of March: Protection and Gender Fair Treatment of the Girl Child Week
Last Week of April – World Immunization Week
Daily Observances:
Mar 25 – International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transallantic Slave Trade
Mar 27– Earth Hour
Apr 21 – Civil Service Day
Apr 22 – World Earth Day
Apr 28 – World Day for Safety and Health at Work
