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Aviation and maritime shipping are not included in the Kyoto Protocol, yet their emissions are expected to increase in the coming years.
05/09/2008 The UN should establish an agency to regulate international transport emissions, notably from highly polluting activities like aviation and shipping, said a climate change watchdog.
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From: Worldwatch Institute
Related: [United Nations] [Pollution] [Climate Change] [Transport]
Image: Aviation and maritime shipping are not included in the Kyoto Protocol, yet their emissions are expected to increase in the coming years. © atom2bit (flickr)
Solar panels at a women's health centre in Camden, London. Jun-02
05/09/2008 Global production of solar photovoltaic cells increased 51 percent in 2007, to 3,733 megawatts.
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From: Worldwatch Institute
Image: Solar panels at a women's health centre in Camden, London. Jun-02 © Peter Armstrong
Protesting the rising cost of tortillas (made from corn) in Mexico.
05/08/2008 The global food crisis is unraveling economic advances made in recent years by large sections of the poor working classes of Latin America, reports a U.S.-based ethnic media organization.
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From: New America Media
Related: [Brazil] [Mexico] [Governance] [Trade] [Consumption] [Poverty] [Food]
Image: Protesting the rising cost of tortillas (made from corn) in Mexico. © Prometeo Lucero [aka Prom] (flickr)
05/08/2008 More than 500 women representing over 40 countries began last week a 12-day bicycle tour of the Middle East to campaign for peace.
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From: Feminist Majority Foundation
Related: [Middle East] [Peace] [Activism] [Gender]
05/08/2008 WASHINGTON, May 8 (OneWorld) - More than 800 development and human rights activists are gathering here this week, developing and calling on Congress to implement new strategies to tackle world poverty and hunger.
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From: OneWorld US
Related: [Poverty] [International Cooperation] [Development]
Photo from unidentified stringer showing hundreds seeking relief in the Burmese town of Labutta
05/08/2008 Exile-run media outlets and their undercover, in-country reporters have managed to keep independent news and information flowing on Myanmar politics, policies and natural disasters such as the May 2-3 cyclone.
+ Burma Regime Must Be Forced to Allow In Aid
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Related: [Myanmar] [Freedom of Expression]
Image: Photo from unidentified stringer showing hundreds seeking relief in the Burmese town of Labutta
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A budding author.
05/09/2008 Namibian primary school students are reading books that they authored and local artists illustrated as part of an education campaign that also provides professional development for teachers.
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From: Academy for Educational Development
Related: [Namibia] [HIV/AIDS] [Youth] [Capacity Building] [Education] [Children]
Image: A budding author. © Academy for Educational Development
A Mexican farmer protests the rising cost of tortillas (made of corn).
05/08/2008 Innovative local initiatives are strengthening rural regions throughout Mexico, which have been losing both people and their competitive edge in agriculture since Mexico opened its markets to free trade.
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From: Global Exchange
Related: [Mexico] [Environmental Activism] [Trade] [Poverty] [Migration] [Labor] [Agriculture]
Image: A Mexican farmer protests the rising cost of tortillas (made of corn). © Prometeo Lucero [aka Prom] (flickr)
Kartun Global Warming, Sumber:www.illinoisfamily.org
05/08/2008 Climate change is happening faster than predicted and the world could be as much as seven degrees hotter by the end of the century, an Australian scientist says.
From: Sydney Morning Herald
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Image: Kartun Global Warming, Sumber:www.illinoisfamily.org
Tropical insects are threatened by global warming. Credit: Dean Forbes
05/07/2008 Global warming will take its biggest toll on insects in the tropics--home to more than half the world's species, scientists predict.
From: ScienceNow
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Image: Tropical insects are threatened by global warming. Credit: Dean Forbes
05/07/2008 Zimbabweans are increasingly harnessing new technologies -- notably cell phones and the internet -- to challenge the ever more dictatorial nature of Mugabe's regime.
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From: Global Voices Online
Related: [Zimbabwe] [Governance] [Activism] [Internet] [ICT] [Freedom of Expression] [Communication]
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ANALYSIS/OPINION
In the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis.
The disastrous aftermath of Cyclone Nargis in Burma is a severe reminder of the overwhelming destruction environmental catastrophes cause in poor communities, writes a development researcher, calling for resolute action against climate change.
From: Center for Global Development
Related: [Myanmar] [Environmental Activism] [Climate Change] [Poverty] [Emergency Relief] [Aid]
Image: In the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis. © Action Against Hunger-USA
South Africa will host the World Cup in 2010 so construction – and corruption – is booming. But almost none of the building or the money can be accessed by the poor who live in shantytowns without proper water, sanitation or electricity. These inequalities could be a major issue in the 2009 presidential election, says Philippe Rivière.

From: Le Monde Diplomatique/ Il Manifesto
Related: [South Africa] [Poverty]
Unwanted childbearing contributes more to population growth than the desire for large families, writes Robert Engelman in his new book More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want.
From: Worldwatch Institute
Related: [Gender] [Population]
The aviation industry is exempt from the Kyoto protocol
A study by the world's leading experts has revealed that airlines are pumping 20 per cent more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than estimates suggest.
From: The Independent
Image: The aviation industry is exempt from the Kyoto protocol
President Bush asked last week that the United States give $770 million in emergency food aid to afflicted regions, but this only amounts to an imperfect first step to confront the global food crisis, says economist Arvind Subramanian.
From: Center for Global Development
Related: [United States] [Japan] [Governance] [Food] [Emergency Relief] [Aid]
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