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Environment
| Last Updated 20/11/2009 18:31:00
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 | UNDP salutes heroes of environment | | New York, US (PANA) - The winning photographs of an eco-themed photo contest sho
wed pro-environmental activities in Africa, featuring environmentalists planting
trees in a water catchment area in Kenya, Moroccan women turning plastic bags in
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o handbags as part of a trade fair project and a Kenyan couple planting a tree o
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their wedding day.
18/11/2009 full text... |
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| Cyclone season starts in Indian Ocean | | Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The 2009-2010 cyclone season has started in the I
ndian Ocean, with the appearance
of the first cyclone called "Anja" on Wednesday, said the Mauritian Meteorologic
al Services.
18/11/2009 full text... |
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| Africa agrees key issues for Climate Change summit | | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Africa has agreed on key issues that will be nego
tiated at the forthcoming Climate Change Summit
(COP15) in Copenhagen, Denmark, according to Meles Zenawi, Ethiopiaâ?s Prime Mi
nister and coordinator of the African negotiating team to the summit.
17/11/2009 full text... |
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| Africa should articulate common position at climate change confab - Experts | | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Ahead of next month's United Nations Summit on
climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark, participants at a forum in Dar es Salaam
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n the issue have stressed the need for the continentâ?s leaders to speak with on
e voice on the urgent need for developed countries to take steps to reduce gas e
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issions negatively affecting the socio-economic well being of the people.
16/11/2009 full text... |
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| Tunisia-EC sign 43 million-euro credit line to clean-up pollution | | Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia on Monday signed a 43 million-euro credit line w
ith the European Commission and the French Development Agency, Alliance Francais
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de Developpement (AFD), to finance projects implemented by companies to clean-u
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industrial pollution, official sources said in Tunis.
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| APEC â?dealâ? on Copenhagen ignores the world's most vulnerable - Greenpeace | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) â" Greenpeace, a global environmental activist group, on
Sunday slammed the â?dealâ? made at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC
) leaders meeting in Singapore to essentially relegate the Copenhagen UN Climate
Summit outcome to nothing but a political agreement: postponing decisions on the
legally binding agreement the world needs to an unclear future date.
15/11/2009 full text... |
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| Floods destroy 1,000 houses in Bujumbura | | Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - No fewer than 717 residential houses were destroyed
following three-day floods caused by torrential rains in several areas of the ci
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y of Bujumbura, Burundi first senior minister, Yves Sahinguvu, said Saturday.
14/11/2009 full text... |
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| Climate-vulnerable countries send SOS over climate change | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Ahead of the forthcoming climate change conference in Co
penhagen, Denmark, the world's most climate-vulnerable countries have called on
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he developed countries to provide money amounting to at least 1.5 per cent of th
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ir gross domestic product to assist developing countries make their transition t
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a climate resilient low-carbon economy.
14/11/2009 full text... |
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| Anti-littering law to take effect in Gambia | | Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - To ensure a proper and more effective enforcement of the
Anti-littering Regulation, Gambia's National Environment Agency (NEA) held a ca
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acity-building programme for its staff to serve as environmental prosecutors.
13/11/2009 full text... |
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| UN chief urges world leaders to attend climate summit | | New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday asked world l
eaders to attend the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, urging
them to take advantage of the invitation extended to them by the Danish Prime Mi
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ister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, to attend the high-level summit from 17-18 December
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13/11/2009 full text... |
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| Second all-Africa Carbon Forum to be held in Nairobi | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - In an effort to build on growing interest in the Kyoto P
rotocolâ?s clean development mechanism (CDM) in Africa, partners United Nations
agencies and the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) have announc
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d they will organize a second all-Africa Carbon Forum in Nairobi, the Kenyn capi
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al, from 3â"5 March, 2010.
12/11/2009 full text... |
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| Govts urged to deliver strong Copenhagen deal on climate change | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The last negotiating session before the historic United
Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December ended Frid
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y in Barcelona, Spain, with the top UN climate change official reiterating that
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openhagen must result in a strong international deal.
06/11/2009 full text... |
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| Group chides G20 members for fuelling climate change | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Members of the G20 have been told to put an end to their
"perverse
fossil-fuel subsidies running into hundreds of billions' of dollars each year, a
s a way of mitigating the effect of climate change,
according to the Green Economy Coalition.
06/11/2009 full text... |
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| Oxfam slams EU's finance proposal on climate change | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - European Union's suggestion of global public financing worth between 22-50 billion euros per year for developing countries to tackle climate change fell short of what is needed, international agency, Oxfam, said on Friday.
30/10/2009 full text... |
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| Kenya to develop climate change policy | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenyan Ministry of Environment is working towards a
developing a comprehensive climate change policy for the country,
as well as a fully-budgeted National Climate Change Response Investment framewor
k to address the challenges of climate change, officials announced
here Tuesday.
27/10/2009 full text... |
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| Kenyan MP appointed African champion for disaster risk reduction | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Rachel Shebesh, member of parliament in Kenya and chair
of the African Parliamentarian Initiative for
Climate Risk Reduction, was Tuesday appointed as the UN International Strategy f
or Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) champion for disaster risk reduction in Africa, t
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e Pan African Parliament (PAP) announced in a statement.
27/10/2009 full text... |
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| African negotiators insist on full compensation for climate | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - African states will not accept a new treaty that merely
replaces the existing Kyoto protocol on ways of tackling climate change unless t
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e rich states agree to take full responsibility for the environmental injustices
their high levels of industrialisation has caused Africa, key African negotiator
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affirmed after a meeting in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
26/10/2009 full text... |
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| 98 ivory tusks seized in Douala | | Douala, Cameroon (PANA) - A total of 98 ivory tusks were seized between Sunday a
nd Monday at the Autonomous Port of Limbe (PAL), 80 kilometres south-west of Dou
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la, the economic capital of Cameroon, sources told PANA here.
26/10/2009 full text... |
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| Senegal holds â?Africa Talks Climateâ? round table | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) â" British Broadcasting Cooperation (BBC) World Service T
rust has released research findings on â?Africa Talks Climateâ? at a round tabl
e held here, warning that â?Africa is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of
climate changeâ? but â?its citizensâ? voices are absent from national and inte
rnational climate debate.â?
BBC World Service Trust carried out the research in partnership with the British
Council and it explored public understanding of climate change in Africa.
24/10/2009 full text... |
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| Ban Ki-Moon seeks common position on climate change | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - In a message to the international community on the occas
ion of the 64th anniversary of the United Nations, celebrated worldwide, the UN
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ecretary General Ban Ki-Moon on Friday called for a common position on climate c
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ange ahead of the summit on the phenomenon, slated for December in Copenhagen, D
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nmark.
23/10/2009 full text... |
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| Libya, Mauritania review locust control | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) â" Libya is to send an emergency team from the Libyan Nat
ional Locust Control
Centre to assess the scope and danger of locusts to the Community of Sahelo-Saha
ran countries (CEN-SAD) and the technical arrangements to eradicate the scourge
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t before causes havoc, Mohamed Al-Madani Al-Azhari, Secretary General of CEN-SAD
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said on Tuesday.
20/10/2009 full text... |
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| FAO plans 'save Lake Chad' event | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warne
d that a real humanitarian disaster
looms for the people who are dependent on the Lake Chad region, due to the shrin
king of lake.
15/10/2009 full text... |
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| UN says oceans could help curb climate change risks | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - African governments keen on fighting the risks of climate change should target investments in the protection of marine ecosystems such as mangroves, salt marshes and seagrasses as a means of fighting excessive carbon emissions, a new UN report said Wednesday.
14/10/2009 full text... |
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| Kenya committed to environmental conservation, management - Kibaki | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki Tuesday affirmed his govern
mentâ?s commitment to environmental conservation and management, saying the coun
try had put in place measures aimed at ensuring sustainable natural resource uti
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ization to reduce poverty and abate continued environmental degradation and depl
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tion of natural resources.
13/10/2009 full text... |
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| Govts to act on degradation of nature-based assets | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Momentum towards the establishment of a new internationa
l body to address the loss and degradation of the world's multi-trillion
dollar nature-based assets gathered pace at a meeting of close of representative
s of about 100 governments that ended here over the weekend.
12/10/2009 full text... |
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