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Haiti seeks $2bn to fight cholera outbreak blamed on UN soldiers
Guardian: Haiti is to call upon the international community for more than $2bn to fight cholera amid growing evidence that the world’s worst epidemic was started by UN peacekeepers. The government’s 10-year plan to improve sanitation and water provision will be unveiled with the backing of foreign aid groups and the UN, which is accused of one of the greatest failures in the history of international intervention. Continue reading
Rainfall shifts pushing rural poor to migrate – study
AlertNet: Migration driven by changing rainfall patterns is on the rise in poor rural communities, as farming families struggle to grow enough food amid worsening droughts and floods. And unless they are helped to cope, governments may face large-scale movements of destitute people in the future, new research says. Continue reading
Rainfall shifts pushing rural poor to migrate – study
AlertNet: Migration driven by changing rainfall patterns is on the rise in poor rural communities, as farming families struggle to grow enough food amid worsening droughts and floods. Continue reading
World Water Day
BusinessGreen: World Water Day will take place on 22 March 2013, this year taking the theme of cooperation and reflecting the United Nation’s decision to make 2013 the International Year of Water Cooperation. The UN wants to raise awareness of increasing water stress as well as the opportunities for governments, businesses and organisations to work together to improve water management The year is also designed to build momentum created at last year’s UN Rio+20 Earth summit, specifically to create new targets… Continue reading
Amid Climate Change Inaction in Washington, Activist Urges Americans To ‘Do The Math’
Huffington Post: Official shoulder-shrugging on climate change in Washington is no longer surprising to Bill McKibben, the environmentalist and tireless advocate for curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Continue reading
Biodiversity protection needs community input
SciDevNet: A pledge to increase support for biodiversity targets in developing countries is welcome, but care for indigenous people is vital too. This month’s meeting of the 11th Conference of the Parties (COP 11) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), held in Hyderabad in India, came as a reality check on the capacity of the international community to implement pledges on biodiversity made two years ago in Nagoya, Japan. Continue reading
France: No damage from leak at Flamanville nuclear reactor
Reuters: A contained radioactive water leak detected at EDF’s Flamanville nuclear plant did not cause any damage to the environment or harm any employees, France’s nuclear safety watchdog ASN and EDF said on Thursday. Continue reading
Norway helps Vietnam cope with climate change
Voice of Vietnam: The Vietnam Red Cross in coordination with its Norway partner organized a seminar in Hanoi from September 24-26 to share experience in disaster risk reduction (DRR). Continue reading
Protecting mangroves cheaper than building coastal protection – official
AlertNet: Keeping coastal mangrove forests intact or replanting them is cheaper than building man-man structure to protect coastlines threatened by climate change, according to the head of the International Union for Conservation for Nature (IUCN). “Our message is, ‘Don’t assume that man-made or engineered solutions are the only ones to protect our coasts and rivers and to provide drinking water. Continue reading
‘Red List’ of Endangered Ecosystems Proposed
Yahoo!: The International Union for the Conservation of Nature moved closer to approving its new Red List of Ecosystems, which measures an ecosystem’s risk of collapse, this week at the World Conservation Congress in South Korea. The IUCN is known for its authoritative Red List of Threatened Species, which created globally accepted criteria for assessing extinction risk Continue reading
