February 20, 2012
- [AlertNet] AlertNet posted an interesting piece recently titled "Climate-security as agent provocateur." The author, Katie Harris of the London-based Overseas Development Institute, rightly calls for "nuance" in making the case for the potential security and conflict implications of climate change.
- [IFAD] Rome - Representatives of farmers and rural producers from all over the world gathered at the Rome headquarters of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) for the Fourth Global Meeting of the Farmers' Forum.
- [IFAD] Rome - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will provide a US$9.8 million loan to the Republic of the Congo to help improve food security and incomes of smallholder producers with a particular focus on young people and women.
- [New Times] More than 300 African civil society organizations on Sunday called on delegates who are due to attend the 12th Special Session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GC/GMEF) in Nairobi this week to unite towards a climate justice agenda and green economy.
- [ANGOP] Huambo - The chancellor of Jos' Eduardo dos Santos University (UJES), Cristvo Simes, announced Monday the construction this year of a centre for study of climate change in central Huambo province, aimed at boosting the educational process of the country.
- The gaming giant's latest look at its sustainability work highlights its energy-efficiency projects, emissions reductions targets and how it has recovered for reuse more than 100,000 pounds of lightly used soap.
- Measuring and communicating the carbon footprint of consumer goods is a resource-intensive effort that may be doomed to fail. But lean manufacturing process, already widely adopted and respected, hint at what might be done with the carbon footprint concept.
February 19, 2012
- MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia may prohibit its airlines from carbon emission trading in protest against a European Union law it says is unfair, state carrier Aeroflot said on Monday.
- BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A group of nations opposed to an EU law forcing all airlines to pay for their emissions meets in Moscow this week to debate possible retaliation, raising the risk of a trade war.
- [AlertNet] I want to take you back to 2007. Margaret Beckett was UK Foreign Secretary and chairing a United Nations Security Council debate. Instigated by the UK, this was the first Security Council debate to link security to climate change.