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Environment
| Last Updated 09/02/2010 18:52:00
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 | Hot weather blankets Nigeria | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria is experiencing an unseasonably hot weather that
has sent citizens scampering for cover,
even as the country's power situation has worsened.
09/02/2010 full text... |
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| Second ACP-EU water projects unveiled | | Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The Gabonese Ambassador to Belgium, Rene Makongo, who
is also the doyen of the diplomatic corps for members of the African, Caribbean
and Pacific (ACP) countries in Brussels will Tuesday, in collaboration with the
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eneral director of EuropeAid, Koos Richelle, preside over a symposium at which t
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e second ACP-EU water projects will be unveiled, PANA learnt from official sourc
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s here.
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| African Union to send mission to Haiti over devastating quake | | From Segun Adeyemi,
PANA Correspondent
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) is to send a mission to Ha
iti ''to offer sympathy and express solidarity of
all the peoples of Africa to the Haitian people,'' according to a declaration is
sued in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Tuesday as the 31 Jan-2 Feb.
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| Copenhagen Accord recycles old climate pledges, charges Greenpeace | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - With the passing of the Copenhagen Accord's 31 January d
eadline for its supporters to submit their pledges to curb greenhouse gas emissi
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ns, the absence of strengthened commitments has failed to meet the Accord's stat
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d objective of taking action to limit global warming to under 2 degrees Celsius,
Greenpeace said Sunday.
31/01/2010 full text... |
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| Copenhagen Accord recycles old climate pledges, charges Greenpeace | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - With the passing of the Copenhagen Accord's 31 January d
eadline for its supporters to submit their pledges to curb greenhouse gas emissi
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ns, the absence of strengthened commitments has failed to meet the Accord's stat
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d objective of taking action to limit global warming to under 2 degrees Celsius,
Greenpeace said Sunday.
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| Copenhagen Accord recycles old climate pledges, charges Greenpeace | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - With the passing of the Copenhagen Accord's 31 January d
eadline for its supporters to submit their pledges to curb greenhouse gas emissi
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ns, the absence of strengthened commitments has failed to meet the Accord's stat
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d objective of taking action to limit global warming to under 2 degrees Celsius,
Greenpeace said Sunday.
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| Gambia in fund-raising drive for Haiti | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Gambia's private sector players have launched a fund-rai
sing drive with the aim of assisting the people of Haiti, following recent earth
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uakes that struck the country, sources in Banjul, the Gambian capital, confirmed
to PANA Friday.
29/01/2010 full text... |
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| Namibia backs Tanzania in ivory row with Kenya | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The row over ivory sales deepened with Kenya Wildlife Se
rvice (KWS), a government agency, saying here Friday that Namibia had thrown its
weight behind Tanzanian and Zambian proposals for one-off sale of their elephant
tusk stockpiles.
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| Italy grants 400,000 euros to Angola to demine | | Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Italy will grant 400,000 euros in February to Angola to
enable it carry out demining operations in the country, Italian ambassador to An
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ola, Giuseppe Mistretta, disclosed Wednesday during a meeting with the National
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emining Institute (INAD) director, Leonardo Sapalo.
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| Angolan ambassador attends World Urban Forum preparatory meeting | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Angolan ambassador to the UN-Habitat, Ambrósio Luko
ki, on Tuesday in Nairobi, Kenya, attended a meeting of the committee of experts
mandated to draft the agenda for the next World Urban Forum, holding in Rio de J
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neiro, Brazil, 22-26 March, according to reports by the Angolan News Agency (ANG
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P).
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| Japan to give US$15b for climate change fight | | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Japan Monday pledged US$15 billion over the next
three years to fight the effects of climate change, and said it would also reduc
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greenhouse emissions by 25 percent as part of global efforts to tackle global w
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rming.
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| Kenyaâ?s noise polluters gang up against â~offensiveâ? law | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenya n Association of Manufacturers (KAM) announced
here Monday that it was in the process of collecting views on challenges faced
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y industries in the enforcement of the Noise and Excessive Vibration Control law
being enforced by the National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA).
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| US to reduce greenhouse emissions by 17% | | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The United States, one of the world's biggest pol
luters, said Monday it would reduce greenhouse emissions by 17 percent on its 20
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5 levels by 2020, as part of a global climate change deal reached in Denmark las
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December.
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| UN-HABITAT comes to Haiti's aid | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - UN-HABITAT Executive Director Anna Tibaijuka has sent a
message of condolence to the President and people of Haiti following last weekâ?
s massive earthquake in that country.
22/01/2010 full text... |
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| Ghana donates US$ 3m to Haiti | | Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana on Thursday announced a US$ 3 million donation to th
e people of Haiti, following the 12 January, devastating earthquake in that coun
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ry.
21/01/2010 full text... |
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| Fresh earthquake hits Haiti, people flee onto streets | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A very powerful aftershock struck Haiti on Wednesday, sh
aking more rubble from damaged buildings and sending screaming people running in
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o the streets, eight days after the country's capital was devastated by an apoca
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yptic quake, according to reports in the Nigerian local daily, the Independent.
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| UN climate boss urges nations to address areas of dispute | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (U
NFCCC) executive secretary Yvo de Boer has urged countries which agreed to the C
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penhagen Accord last December to unlock areas of disagreement in the on-going ta
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ks without leading to a new negotiating track.
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| Côte-d'Ivoire grants quake-hit Haiti US$ 1m | | Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Ivorian government has offered Haiti US$ 1
million to cushion the effect of the devastating earthquake that hit the Pacific
Ocean country on 12 January, a communique issued by the Ivorian presidency discl
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sed.
20/01/2010 full text... |
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| Zimbabwe heads for drought - officials | | Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe is headed for yet another devastating drought
this year, government and agricluture officials
warned Wednesday, after a prolonged dry spell in many regions of the country lef
t crops wilting beyond recovery.
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| Expert allay fears over possible earthquake in Africa | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - One week after an earthquake left about 200,000 people d
ead in Haiti and the widespread rumours that it could occur in Ghana, an Earth S
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ientist, Dr. Olateju Bayewu, has dismissed fears of possible occurrence of earth
q
uake in Africa.
19/01/2010 full text... |
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| Gambia campaigns against bushfires | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Gambia's forestry officials and anti-bush fire task
force have launched a week-long campaign in the country's western region, meeti
ng with communities and preaching the need for and importance of preserving fore
st cover, PANA reported Friday.
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