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Horticulture exports face new threat as EU acts on food miles
31 July 2009, source: Business Daily URL: http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/-/539552/632512/-/view/printVersion/-/14ab263/-/index.html
Nairobi: Kenya’s horticultural exports have come under renewed threat as the carbon footprints campaign gains momentum in key European markets, a new survey indicates. In a report published on Wednesday, the European Union said the majority of consumers support the controversial carbon footprints concept and want it immediately implemented to help fight climate change... Read more...
Alexandria: Hopes that the 10 Nile Basin countries would sign a water-sharing agreement at a meeting in Alexandria to settle one of the planet's most contentious water issues have been dashed -- for now at least -- after Egypt and Sudan rejected any cuts in their traditional quotas. But the prospects of a long-term accord on an equitable share-out of the waters of the 3,470-mile Nile, the world's longest river, remain dim, largely because Egypt, the largest user, refuses to surrender its veto powers and its historic rights over the river that has been its lifeblood since time immemorial... Read more...
US lawmakers see new mood in China ties
31 July 2009, source: AFP
Washington: US lawmakers on Wednesday saw a new spirit of cooperation with China after top-level talks here, but some pointed to climate change as a looming dispute that could divide the Pacific powers.
The United States and China this week held their first in-depth policy dialogue under President Barack Obama, who declared that the relationship between the biggest developed and developing nations would shape the century... Read more...
EU-African Union scientific partnership: �63 million to support research for Africa
Brussels: The European Commission has launched a call for proposals entirely dedicated to research for Africa. Africa continues to face serious challenges to sustain its development and research can develop solutions. This special initiative for Africa will address some of the science and technology objectives included in the EU-Africa Strategic Partnership agreed on by the European Commission and the African Union Commission in December 2007... Read more...
Poor nations seek 95-per-cent emission cuts by 2050
Dhaka: Environmentalists and civil-society activists from Asia-Pacific and African countries particularly vulnerable to climate change called Wednesday for industrialized nations to cut their greenhouse-gas emissions 95 per cent by 2050 from 1990 levels. "We call on the rich countries ..... Read more...
Rich nations vulnerable to water disasters
30 July 2009, source: Inter Press Service URL: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47850
United Nations: The growing shortage of water - a perennial problem in the world's poorer nations - is expected to eventually reach the rich nations in the Western world. The United States, Spain, Australia and the Netherlands are likely to face the consequences of climate change resulting in water-related disasters, including droughts, floods, hurricanes and sea-level rise... Read more...
Southern Africa: building regional water management
30 July 2009, source: Inter Press Service URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/200907290554.html
Windhoek: As southern Africa braces for the negative effects of climate change, calls for integrated water resources management become more strident. The Southern African Development Community is working to build regional capability, address weaknesses in data collection and ultimately coordinate management of shared resources to benefit citizens throughout the region... Read more...
30 July 2009, source: Angola Press URL: http://www.portalangop.co.ao/motix/en_us/noticias/ambiente/Environment-Ministry-drafts-greenhouse-gases-inventory,598e29c3-292b-4e15-a067-3d16d940104d.html
Luanda: Angola, through the Ministry of Environment, is since April this year drafting its First National Communication (PCN) to develop an inventory on greenhouse gases. The information was released to Angop by the National director of Environment, Vladmir Russo, who said this is in response to the UN Convention on Climatic Changes, in partnership with the UN Programme on Environment (UNEP)... Read more...
Climate change time-bomb definitely ticking for Africa
Narobi: The recent closure of Masinga dam and rationing of water supply in Nairobi are worrying indications that Kenya could be on the knife-edge of a potential environmental crisis in the future.Slowly but steadily, the effects of climate change are becoming manifest even though the full extent of its future implications cannot be fully discerned at the moment... Read more...
Nairobi: Giant wind farms may grab the headlines but plans to develop local off-grid electricity will have bigger impact on Africans and carbon emissions. Kenya made the headlines recently when it announced plans to build the continent's biggest wind farm. When they are up and running in 2012, the 300-odd wind turbines will produce a quarter of the country's power (300MW)... Read more...
Namibia urges Africa to make "collective demand" at climate change summit
Freetown: Visiting Namibian President Hifikepunye Lucas Pohamba has said that he wants Africa to make a "collective demand" at the forthcoming climate change cummit in Copenhagen, Denmark, by taking a stand that would press on the developed nations to fulfill their commitments to the developing world in the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol... Read more...
PM Manmohan Singh on climate change
30 July 2009, source: SIFY.com
New Delhi: "The Major Economic Forum Declaration adopted at L'Aquila is not a declaration of Climate Change policy by India, nor is it a bilateral declaration between India and another country or a group of countries. It is a declaration that represents a shared view among 17 developed and developing countries, the latter category including China, South Africa, Brazil, Indonesia and Mexico... Read more...
Publics want more government action on climate change - global poll
A new WorldPublicOpinion.org poll of 19 nations from around the world finds that majorities in 15 countries think their government should put a higher priority on addressing climate change than it does now. This includes the largest greenhouse gas emitters: China (62% want more action), the US (52%), and Russia (56%)... Read more...
Waste-to-energy plant is Ivory Coast's first CDM project
French carbon dealer ecosur today received approval under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism for a waste-to-energy carbon offset project in Côte d'Ivoire that it had submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on July 9. A subsidiary of US agro-industrial giant Cargill has already signed forward agreements to purchase Certified Emission Reduction certificates (CERs) from the Abidjan Municipal Waste-to-Energy Project, which is the first CDM project located in a member state of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA), and one of the few in sub-Saharan Africa outside of South Africa... Read more...
Experts urge adoption of sustainable farming practices
Nairobi: Environmental conservation and management experts from the Nairobi-based World Agro-forestry Centre (ICRAF) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) are calling for a worldwide adoption of sustainable farming practices to mitigate the perils of climate change. The call was made here Monday at the launch of the 2nd World Congress of Agro-forestry, which will be held in Nairobi 23-28 August 2009... Read more...
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