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ECOSOC - global challenges and trends on delivery of humanitarian assistance
23 July 2009, source: ReliefWeb URL: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/SNAA-7U78UV?OpenDocument
New York: The Economic and Social Council held a panel discussion addressing the impact of current global challenges and trends on the effective delivery of humanitarian assistance. This was followed by a general discussion on the theme of the panel discussion.
Tiina Intelmann, Vice-President of the Economic and Social Council, said this panel should provide humanitarian stakeholders, including Member States and international humanitarian actors, with an opportunity to jointly discuss measures to address the adverse humanitarian impact of these challenges... Read more...
Nigeria's $750 million climate change loss
23 July 2009, source: 234Next URL: http://www.234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/National/5438156-147/Nigeria's_$750_million_climate_change_loss.csp
Lagos: Nigeria loses about $750 million annually to the depletion of its 350,000 hectares of forest land by direct human activities and climate change, the Minister of Environment, John Odey said on Tuesday in Abuja.
Mr. Odey, who spoke during a session with the House Committee on Climate Change in Abuja, also said that the Sahara Desert in Nigeria is moving southward at a rate of 600 meters annually... Read more...
Michuki's 'new law': Tree planting mandatory
23 July 2009, source: Kenya Broadcasting Corporation URL: http://www.kbc.co.ke/story.asp?ID=58757
Nairobi: You will soon be required to plant trees on at least 10 percent of all the land that you own. Environment minister John Michuki said on Wednesday that the measure would help Kenya realize the international standard of 10 percent forest cover of a country's land mass.
He said the country's policies, laws and regulations cannot appropriately address the effects of climate change... Read more...
Brazil: When the arid northeast turns green
23 July 2009, source: Inter Press Service
Nova Russas: The rain - usually much desired because it is so scarce - has come in excess this year, destroying many crops. But in this farming district in far north-eastern Brazil, the impact of the heavy rainfall was less marked than in the past, thanks to the diversification of crops and productive activities... Read more...
OECD: Integrating climate change adaptation into development co-operation
The national level is critical for mainstreaming climate change adaptation. At this level, strategic decisions are taken which create the enabling environment for public- and private-sector actors as well as communities and households. It is also at this level that medium- to long-term development and poverty reduction strategies and objectives are established, through national visions, national development plans and strategies... Read more...
UNEP calls for more investment in "green" economies
New York: The UN environmental agency (UNEP) Monday called on the world's developed nations to invest massively in "greening" their economies in order to set a new path to prosperity. A statement issued by UNEP quoted Paven Sukhdev, its project leader on Green Economy Initiative, as saying "countries should rethink economic models and target at job growth... Read more...
UN panel to study impact of climate change on poor countries
London: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the UN body of scientists drawn from around the world, will use its next assessment due in 2014 to look at how the impact of global warming is falling unequally on the poorest developing countries.
Two hundred key members of the IPCC met in Venice last week to begin scoping out its fifth assessment... Read more...
London: The low-carbon revolution is not going to happen by itself, says Andrew Pendleton. In this week's Green Room, he calls on governments put the necessary frameworks in place that will allow the private sector to roll out the technologies needed to deliver the ambitious cuts in emissions... Read more...
Kenya: Forestry groups to get registration
22 July 2009, source: Daily Nation URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200907210935.html
Nairobi: Community forest associations will now be required to seek registration a the attorney general's office to make them more accountable and help the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) in the management of forest resources. A KFS Senior assistant director and head of Coast Conservancy Enock Kanyanya called on communities in the province to start the registration process adding that the region could benefit greatly if forest activities are properly regulated... Read more...
India: Govt studying effects of climate change on crops
New Delhi: The government today said it has initiated several projects to develop high-temperature tolerant superior foodgrain varieties and also to study the impact of climate change on agriculture.
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has initiated a project on impact, adaption and vulnerability of Indian agriculture to climate change at different ICAR institutes and universities during 10th plan period (2002-2007), Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha... Read more...
Britain should grow more crops to avoid global food crisis, say MPs
London: Britain should grow far more fruit, vegetables and cereals to help feed the extra 2.7 billion people there may be in the world within 40 years, said a powerful committee of MPs in a report published today.
Michael Jack, who chairs the environment, food and rural affairs (Efra) committee, said: "If people go hungry then political stability goes out of the window... Read more...
New parliamentary forum to fight climate change
21 July 2009, source: The New Vision URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/200907200515.html
Kampala: The snow caps on Mt. Rwenzori are melting, crops are failing due to erratic rain and much of Uganda is experiencing food shortage. Although Uganda may not have contributed to climate change as much as other countries, it will be hit just as hard, if not harder, by the effects of climate change... Read more...
Cape Town: The use of remote sensing and satellite imaging looks set to become more widespread in South Africa as sustainable agriculture and natural resource management become more urgent in the face of climate change. Remote sensing, a technique that uses recorded or real-time wireless sensing devices to collect information on an object or phenomenon, is proving more successful in South Africa than other African countries for two reasons: South Africa has the required telecommunications network infrastructure to support remote sensing, and its higher internet capacity means that information can be transmitted consistently and timeously... Read more...
Johannesburg: Many South African companies are losing sight of their carbon footprint reduction programmes in the midst of the market turmoil. South African companies are asking themselves whether it is better to start developing a carbon management strategy now or to wait and see what transpires with impending climate change regulations, analysts say... Read more...
Clinton: Indian Agricultural Research Institute comments
21 July 2009, source: US Department of State URL: http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2009a/july/126207.htm
New Delhi: Here at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, some of India's top scientists are working to solve one of the most difficult challenges we face as a global community: the problem of chronic hunger and malnutrition, which affect nearly a billion people in the world. You know, hunger affects the entire human condition... Read more...
