January 2008 Blog Posts (11)

From Issue 40 of IISD's MEA Bulletin:



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No, your computer isn't misfiring. Welcome to a new Wall Street Journal blog, Environmental Capital. It replaces the Journal's Energy Roundup blog. Environmental Capital will continue Energy Roundup's tradition of tracking daily energy news. And it will go further, analyzing how the energy world, and all of business, is adapting to mounting…

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Andean societies rely heavily on glacial runoff for their drinking water, agriculture and hydropower production. The possible disappearance or shrinking of glaciers in coming decades because of global warming would have grave consequences for the region. Recognizing this, the International Research Institute for Climate and Society and its partners have just started on a two-year project to characterize how climate change will impact water resources and the people who rely on them…

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YouTube has a collection of short video interviews with journalists from Africa, Asia and Latin America who went to the UN climate change conference in Bali with the Climate Change Media Partnership last month.



The partnership is a collaboration between Internews, Panos and the International Institute for Environment and Development. It took 40 journalists (including some members of this network) to the conference to boost the coverage of climate change in their home countries. In many… Continue

Governments must agree international rules that would give indigenous communities access to genetic resources to help them fight poverty, preserve biodiversity and adapt to climate change, says a report released today by the International Institute for Environment and Development.



The call comes as governments gather to negotiate rules to implement the UN Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) in Geneva on 21-25 February.



Nearly 15 years after the convention came into force… Continue

The latest set of forecasts from the International Research Institute for Climate and Society indicate that we're going to see La Niña persist at least into late spring.

La Niña conditions…

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MDR-TB an emerging threat in Kenya

December 2007

The prevalence of Tuberculosis (TB) is increasing in Kenya and the health officials are in the process of preparing a paper that will declare TB as…

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Kenyan slum dwellers whose homes and livelihoods were destroyed in recent violence are calling for international help to support their local peace initiatives and plans to rebuild the devastated communities.



Hundreds of people were murdered following the recent election and thousands more have been forced to flee to camps. The recent violence was concentrated in Kenya’s urban slums, where many houses and shops were burnt to the ground.



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A unique partnership of international organisations and journalists has given a major boost to media coverage of climate change in developing nations.



Internews, the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and Panos joined forces to create the Climate Change Media Partnership to strengthen the reporting of climate change before, during and after last month’s UN conference in Bali.



The Climate Change Media Partnership brought 40 journalists from 22… Continue

Well, having joined this network over eight months ago, I've finally gotten around to updating my profile properly. I hope to use this network to keep contact with the many people I meet through my day to day work.

At SciDev.Net we are always on the look out for interesting ideas for news and feature articles, so feel free to contact me anytime.

Finally, best wishes to all for 2008!