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UN 'stunned' by scale of bail-out
Achim Steiner is executive director of the UN Environment Programme The UN's head of environment has been left "stunned" by the billions of dollars pumped into ailing companies following the global financial crisis. Achim Steiner told the BBC One Planet programme that he had fought for years to secure much smaller sums to tackle poverty and climate change.
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Presentation to the UN Commission for Social Development: making services work for the poorest by Professor Aasha Kapur Mehta of CPRC-India and the Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi.
BBC News - Nigeria Ogoniland oil clean-up 'could take 30 years'
The Ogoni people say their land has been devastated by pollution from the oil industry Nigeria's Ogoniland region could take 30 years to recover fully from the damage caused by years of oil spills, a long-awaited UN report says. "We will continue working with our partners in Nigeria, including the government, to solve these problems and on the next steps to help clean up Ogoniland," Mutiu Sunmonu, managing director of the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC), said in a statement. The UN assessment of Ogoniland, which lies in the Niger Delta, said 50 years of oil operations in the region had "penetrated further and deeper than many had supposed".
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