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  2. List of intergovernmental organizations - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of the major existing intergovernmental organizations (IGOs). For a more complete listing, see the Yearbook of International Organizations , [ 1 ] which includes 25,000 international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), excluding for-profit enterprises, about 5,000 IGOs, and lists dormant and dead organizations as ...

  3. Rock (geology) - Wikipedia

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    Anthropic rock is synthetic or restructured rock formed by human activity. Concrete is recognized as a human-made rock constituted of natural and processed rock and having been developed since Ancient Rome. [23] Rock can also be modified with other substances to develop new forms, such as epoxy granite. [24]

  4. International organization - Wikipedia

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    The offices of the United Nations in Geneva (Switzerland), which is the city that hosts the highest number of international organizations in the world [1]. An international organization, also known as an intergovernmental organization or an international institution, is an organization that is established by a treaty or other type of instrument governed by international law and possesses its ...

  5. Multistakeholder governance - Wikipedia

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    Examples of this practice are multistakeholder bodies which explicitly seek autonomy from legally binding state regulations and the soft law of the intergovernmental system (e.g internet governance); standard setting multistakeholder bodies, which perceive that the UN system failed to address their concerns, consequently elect to operate ...

  6. Geology - Wikipedia

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    Solidified lava flow in Hawaii Sedimentary layers in Badlands National Park, South Dakota Metamorphic rock, Nunavut, Canada. Geology (from Ancient Greek γῆ (gê) 'earth' and λoγία () 'study of, discourse') [1] [2] is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time. [3]

  7. United Nations - Wikipedia

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    The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations and countries, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for coordinating the actions of member states. [2]

  8. List of statements by major scientific organizations about ...

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    In it, the IUGG concurs with the "comprehensive and widely accepted and endorsed scientific assessments carried out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and regional and national bodies, which have firmly established, on the basis of scientific evidence, that human activities are the primary cause of recent climate change".

  9. Category:Intergovernmental organizations - Wikipedia

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    Defunct intergovernmental organizations (5 P) People by intergovernmental organization (58 C, 1 P) Treaties establishing intergovernmental organizations (2 C, 136 P)