Three years after it was first proposed, preparations for an African 'wall of trees' to slow down the southwards spread of the Sahara desert are finally getting underway. The 'Great Green Wall' will involve several stretches of trees from Mauritania in the west to Djibouti in the east, to protect the semi-arid savannah region of the Sahel (and its agricultural land) from desertification.
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Significant differences emerged in the positions on climate change of the G8 and G5 leaders at the summit meetings held in Japan in the past few days. The differences also reflect the positions that the developed and developing countries in general have been making in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The leaders of the G5 (comprising China, India, Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa) issued their own political declaration stressing that a shared vision including on long-term global goal for emissions reduction "must be based on an equitable burden sharing paradigm".
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A study prepared for the High Level Conference on World Food Security, 3-5 June, 2008 in Rome by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) says that the liquid biofuel production has indeed contributed and is in the near future likely to continue to weaken the access to adequate food or to the resources by which vulnerable people can feed themselves, in at least three ways.
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Sustainable Development
- Wed Jul 30 2008
Asian civil society groups call for climate justice
Over 170 activists who gathered in Bangkok from 12-14 July harshly criticised governments and corporations for their failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They called for climate justice and a "fundamental departure from the current global order" to solve the climate crisis. Conference participants included fishers and farmers, forest and indigenous peoples, women, youth, workers and non-government activists from 31 countries.
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WRM
Sustainable Development
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Alternative climate change conference
The Climate Justice Now! Network emerged from the Bali meeting when a number of organizations came together to denounce the absence of a justice dimension in the climate change negotiations. They are meeting now in Bangkok, Thailand from 12-14 July 2008 to discuss and promote the climate justice agenda.
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Focus on the Global South
