The United Nations

In 1992, almost all nations signed a treaty that set voluntary goals for curbing the emission of greenhouse gases, but it achieved little. Five years later, the 

Post-Oil Energy Technology After the Age of Fossil Fuels 

Less-developed nations such as China believe that the industrial nations polluted their way into prosperity and became concerned about environmental damage only after their economies had already matured. Therefore, they feel it is unfair that the industrial nations—which did and are still emitting most of the greenhouse gases—should expect the less-developed ones to curtail their economic development to cut global carbon emissions. At the 2007 UN conference in Bali, China and India continued to refuse limiting their emissions. 

In 2007, the UN s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded (http //hdr.undp.org/en/) that water shortages, droughts, flooding, and severe storms are the results of unsustainable energy consumption, and a 

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YAO A.griculture Production Statistics 1974—1993, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1995. 

The Opiates. The International Narcotics Control Board—Vienna, tracks the tick production of narcotic dmgs and annually estimates world requkements for the United Nations. Thek most recent pubHcation (100) points out that more than 95% of the opium for Hcit medical and scientific purposes is produced by India and, in a declining trend, only about 600 t was utilized in 1988. This trend appears to be due to the fact that the United States, the largest user of opium for alkaloid extraction, reduced the amount of opium being imported from about 440 t in 1986 to 249 t in 1987 and 224 t in 1988. The United States used about 48 t of morphine (2, R = H) in 1988, most (about 90%) being converted to codeine (2, R = CH3) and the remainder being used for oral adrninistration to the terminally ill (about 2 t) and for conversion to other materials of minor commercial import which, while clearly alkaloid-derived, are not naturally occurring. 

The Protein Advisory Group, ad hoc, is the working group of the WHO United Nations system involving WHO, EAO, and the United Nations International Childten s Emergency Eund (UNICEE). It has developed guidelines for the evaluation of novel sources of protein, eg, single-cell protein ... 

The Department of Transportation classifies HCl as a corrosive material and requires that it be transported in DOT-approved deHvery vessels. Tank cars must conform to 103B, 103B-W, or DOT 111A60W5 specifications. Tank trailers must conform to DOT MC-310, MC-311, MC-312, or DOT-412 specifications with display of a corrosive placard on both sides, front, and rear of the tank. The United Nations identification number for muriatic acid is UN1789, which must appear on aH shipping papers and placards. 

Thus the ADI in mg per kg per day is an estimate of the daily pesticide dietary intake that appears to be without risk over the entire human lifetime. ADI values are estabHshed and periodically reviewed by joint committees of the Eood and Agricultural Organization (EAO) and WHO of the United Nations. 

Proceedings of the United Nations International Conference on the Peaceful Uses ofMtomic Energy, Geneva, 1955, United Nations, New York, 1956. 

Furthermore, the Jokit Expert Committee on Food Additives (107) (fECFA) of the WHO and EAO of the United Nations issued the evaluation of the safety, statkig that on the basis of the available data, the total dietary kitake of glutamates arising from thek use at the levels necessary to achieve the desked technological effect and from thek acceptable background ki food does not, ki the opinion of the committee, represent a ha2ard to health. 

Ammonium nitrate fertilizer was priced at about 137/t in bulk in June 1991. The DOT label required is OXY the United Nations number is UN... 

Details about the various U.N. water-related activities can be found in References 26—29, as well as in topical reports pubhshed by the United Nations. 

Report of the United Nations Water Conference, Mar del Platta, Publ. No. 77. II. A. 12 United Nations, 1977. 

Calcium carbide is classed as a ha2ardous chemical under Department of Transportation regulations. Domestic shipments are mainly in steel tote bins varying in capacity from 2.5—4.5 t. A small amount continues to be shipped in industrial wide mouth steel dmms of 270 kg capacity. Containers must be marked "Flammable soHd, dangerous when wet" and have the United Nations designation UN 1402. 

FAO Nutrition Meetings Report, Series No. 40 A,B,C, Pood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations World Health Organization, New York, 1967, p. 134. 

F. Winklemann, Imitation Milk andMilk Products, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, New York, 1974, pp. 1—117. 

PA.G. Statement of Milk Substitutes, No. 6, Protein Advisory Group of the United Nations System, New York, 1970. 

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