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Ocean acidification seen costing world over $1 tril. a year

TOKYO, Japan - A worker checks experimental devices installed off Ny-Alesund on the island of Spitsbergen in Svalbard, Norway, as seen in this file photo taken in July 2010, to survey the acidification of the Arctic Ocean. The U.N. Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity has warned that the impact of ocean acidification could cost the world more than 1 trillion dollars annually by 2100.

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Japanese students in Geneva

GENEVA, Switzerland - Jarmo Sareva (C), deputy director general of the U.N. Conference on Disarmament, poses with Japanese high school students at the U.N. office in Geneva on Aug. 21, 2012. A group of Japanese and Brazilian high school students presented to the secretariat of the U.N. Conference on Disarmament around 155,000 signatures that they collected from across the globe in seeking the abolition of nuclear weapons.

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Students report on trip to Geneva

NAGASAKI, Japan - Saya Sasaki (front L), a second-year student at Takata High School in Iwate Prefecture, with Masahiro Kikuchi (front R), a third-year student at the school, reports on her impressions about a trip to Geneva during a meeting in the city of Nagasaki on Aug. 25, 2011. A group of 12 high school students, including Sasaki and Kikuchi from quake-hit Rikuzentakata, presented in Geneva to the secretariat of the U.N. Conference on Disarmament some 80,000 signatures calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

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Frisch at international conference on disaster relief

KOBE, Japan - Ambassador Toni Frisch, chairman of the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group, an arm of the U.N. Secretariat, speaks at a meeting on disaster relief attended by over 80 countries in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on Sept. 15, 2010. Frisch said the major objective of the conference was to share local information and experience at the global level.

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Japan, China, S. Korea put aside tensions to tackle disasters

Chen Feng (far R), a senior Chinese official at the secretariat of a framework set up by Japan, China and South Korea to promote cooperation, attends a forum on Northeast Asian resilience to disasters in the northeastern Japan city of Sendai on March 16, 2015. During the event, part of the U.N. World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, Chen said, "Disaster management has always been a priority area in trilateral cooperation." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Frisch at international conference on disaster relief

KOBE, Japan - Ambassador Toni Frisch, chairman of the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group, an arm of the U.N. Secretariat, speaks at a meeting on disaster relief attended by over 80 countries in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on Sept. 15, 2010. Frisch said the major objective of the conference was to share local information and experience at the global level. (Kyodo)

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Students report on trip to Geneva

NAGASAKI, Japan - Saya Sasaki (front L), a second-year student at Takata High School in Iwate Prefecture, with Masahiro Kikuchi (front R), a third-year student at the school, reports on her impressions about a trip to Geneva during a meeting in the city of Nagasaki on Aug. 25, 2011. A group of 12 high school students, including Sasaki and Kikuchi from quake-hit Rikuzentakata, presented in Geneva to the secretariat of the U.N. Conference on Disarmament some 80,000 signatures calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons. (Kyodo)

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Ex-U.N. chief Ban at China-Japan-S. Korea cooperation forum

Former U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon speaks in Seoul on April 27, 2021, during a forum to mark the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat by China, Japan and South Korea, wearing a mask amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Nakamitsu named U.N. high rep for disarmament affairs

Undated photo shows Izumi Nakamitsu, assistant secretary general and assistant administrator at the U.N. Development Program's Crisis Response Unit. U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres announced March 29, 2017, the appointment of Nakamitsu as the next undersecretary general and high representative for disarmament affairs, making the 53-year-old the first Japanese woman to become an undersecretary general at the U.N. headquarters' Secretariat. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo