Why the world is burning more coal

It's the hard-working demographers of the U.N. who have counted the global population and have selected Oct. 31 as the date of the 7 billionth person. That makes sense because population is a major part of international development — and that's the business of the U.N. Bryan Walsh of TIME spoke with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his office in New York City about global population, the challenges of development and the lingering threat of climate change.

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http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2097720_2097779_2097780,00.html

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Global

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2011

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Countries must plan for climate refugees - report

Submitted by ward on Mon, 11/14/2011 - 7:27pm

Author:

Deborah Zabarenko

An internally displaced child sits in a mud oven outside his family tent at a ca

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WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (Reuters) - The world's governments and relief agencies need to plan now to resettle millions of people expected to be displaced by climate change, an international panel of experts said on Thursday.

Resettlement related to large infrastructure development projects has been occurring for decades, with some estimates of up to 10 million people a year, said the report's lead author, Alex de Sherbinin.