Browsing Malaya by Name "World Bank"

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    • Climate change to cut fish catch by 50% 

      (Malaya, June 20, 2013, on page A3)
      The Philippines will have to prepare for a 50 percent drop in fish catch and the huge risks storms will have on informal settlements and coastal communities due to climate change. The World Bank said that fish catch in ...

    • G20 plastic trash reduction goal doesn't address 'excessive production: Activists 

      Reuters (Malaya, July 2, 2019, on page B5)
      The world produced about 242 million tons of plastic waste in 2016, according to the World Bank. Some 8 million of that enters the ocean annually, with China and Indonesia being the biggest offenders, a study in the journal ...

    • G20 to tackle ocean plastic waste as petrochemical makers expand in Asia 

      (Malaya, June 14, 2019, on page B5)
      Japan wants to make reducing the glut of plastic waste in the oceans a priority at the Group of 20 summit it is hosting this month as governments around the world crack down on such pollution. Images of plastic debris-strewn ...

    • Islands want UN to see climate as security threat 

      Associated Press (AP) (Malaya, February 18, 2013, on page B4-B5)
      The Marshall Islands and other low-lying island nations appealed to the U.N. Security Council on Friday to recognize climate change as an international security threat that jeopardizes their very survival. Tony deBrum, a ...