May 20, 2012
Twenty-one passengers, more than half of them foreign tourists, were injured when their bus overturned in Pursat province’s Krakor district early on Friday morning, police said yesterday.
Krakor district’s traffic police chief Som Pilot said the passengers, including 13 foreign nationals from Norway, France, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark, were treated at a provincial hospital before being released.
“The tourists told us that the wreck was likely...
May 18, 2012
From the Caribbean to Africa, the story of cocoa has always been a bittersweet tale of...
May 15, 2012
ECORYS Nederland, Climate Focus, the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) and the Wuppertal Institute have been commissioned by the European Commission to study possible designs for the new market mechanism under the UNFCCC. They will present interim results at a side event on 16 May.
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Under the shade of a tree at an Istanbul cafe, Suzan, a voluptuous woman in her 50s with dyed blond hair and a warm, generous smile, describes how she went from teenage bride to full-time sex...
May 11, 2012
On February 15-17, the UNFCCC Technology Executive Committee (TEC) held its second meeting. On May 28-29, it will meet again. The TEC is informally called the “policy arm” of the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism, which aims to enhance climate technology development and transfer for mitigation and adaptation. Despite its importance, the TEC has not been much discussed or studied. In this blog, two followers of the UNFCCC technology negotiations give their views on how the TEC can make a...
May 9, 2012
- Gland, 9 May 2012 - Corporate members of WWF's Climate Savers programme cut their carbon dioxide emissions by more than 100 million tonnes over the period 1999 to 2011, according to an independent review of the programme released today. The figure is equivalent to double the current annual emissions of...
May 8, 2012
- Rotterdam: Dawa Steven Sherpa, 28-year-old mountain guide and adventure pioneer, has been awarded the first ever WWF International President’s Award during a special ceremony at global conservation organization WWF’s Annual Conference in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Now a professional guide, mountaineer and conservation activist in the Himalayan region where he grew up, Dawa Steven Sherpa is a graduate in business administration and heads an adventure trekking...
May 3, 2012
- On Thursday, the earnings reports are led by General Motors and other major car makers, as U.S. retailers report their April sales. Economic data out of the U.S. include the report of claims for unemployment benefits. Investors also will be accounting for an the European Central Bank’s decision to leave its key interest rate at 1%. And there’s a merger: Royal DSM of the Netherlands is buying Kensey Nash of Pennsylvania.
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April 29, 2012
This presentation was made at the Carbon Fund third meeting (CF3) on March 24 2012. The presentation describes six REDD piloting activities across the country funded by WWF International, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, Livelihood and Forestry Programme (LFP), Rupantaran Nepal (RN), Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Policy Research and Education (Tebtebba), International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA),...