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Goodall for greener Malawi
25 January 2009, source: Nyasa Times URL: http://www.nyasatimes.com/national/2510.html
Blantyre: Minister of Finance, Goodall Gondwe has called on Malawians to cultivate a tree planting culture as a commitment to biodiversity conservation and combating deforestation. Gondwe said the problems of hunger and water shortage experienced in some areas in the country were due to deforestation... Read more...
Climate change threatens food security
20 January 2009, source: Inter Press Service URL: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45458
Cape Town: Climate change will have a significant impact on southern Africa's already compromised food security, environmental experts warned at the fifth Alexander von Humboldt International Conference at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa.The meeting, held Jan. 11-16, drew climate change experts and environmental scientists from around the world... Read more...
Addis Ababa: Poverty poses a major obstacle for farmers in Ethiopia to adapt to climate change, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said. "The poor do not have the necessary technology and resources, in terms of money and so on, to be able to change and adapt," Meles told a national climate change conference in Addis Ababa... Read more...
Climate change: As politicians stall, grassroots fills void
16 January 2009, source: Inter Press Service URL: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45427
Uxbridge: Global emissions of carbon dioxide must reach a peak in less than 10 years and then begin a rapid decline to nearly zero by 2050 to avoid catastrophic disruption to the world's climate, according to a new report.Emissions of carbon dioxide will actually need to "go negative" -- with more being absorbed than emitted -- during the second half of this century, according to "State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World" released by the U... Read more...
People 'hungry' for climate change info
15 January 2009, source: IOL URL: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click;_id=31&art;_id=vn20090114112604773C178873
Cape Town: Scientists must develop new tools to help ordinary people understand their work on global climate change, and to help them appreciate what the existing scientific models can and can't predict about this phenomenon.This was the message from climate change expert Professor Bruce Hewitson, of UCT's Climate Systems Analysis Group, during the keynote lecture of Tuesday's session of the week-long "Iphakade: Climate Changes & African Earth Systems - Past, Present and Future" conference, which began on Monday... Read more...
COMESA program on climate change
12 January 2009, source: Comesa URL: http://www.comesa.int/lang-en/component/content/article/34-general-news/66-press-release
Lusaka: The Secretariat for the Common Market for East and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the Government of Norway have signed a grant agreement in which Norway will make available to COMESA a financial grant amounting to NOK 17 000 000 (Norwegian Kroner Seventeen Million or US$2... Read more...
Climate change threatens livelihoods
02 January 2009, source: Inter Press Service URL: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45224
Lilon gwe: Climate change will affect the Zambezi River basin more severely than any other river system in the world, according to Kenneth Msibi, Water Policy and Strategy Expert for the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Increased floods, drought and increased levels of disease threaten lives and livelihoods all along the river's length... Read more...
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