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Article: ECOSOC discusses relationship between development, climate change
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- May 2, 2008
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ECOSOC discusses relationship between development, climate change
UNITED NATIONS, May 2 (Xinhua) -- The UN Economic and Social
Council (ECOSOC) held on Friday a meeting to explore the
relationship between climate change and the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs), a set of eight targets, ranging from eradicating
extreme poverty to improving access to education and health care,
that world leaders have agreed to achieve by 2015.
Council president Leo Merores told council members that ECOSOC
should send a strong message that efforts to achieve the anti-
poverty goals could be reversed if climate change is not addressed.
Merores noted that several countries are off track in achieving
the MDGs ...