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Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN)- Eastern Africa is a network of Community Development Workers (CDWs) who are involved in drylands development.
People United for Environmental Justice (PURE-Justice) is a growing coalition of NGOs concerned with the impacts of oil exploration and exploitation on communities in the Niger Delta. It is committed to achieving environmental justice across the Niger Delta.
A worldwide network of over 340 Non- Governmental Organizations (NGOs) working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels.
Non-profit environmental justice service and developmental organization working primarily in South Africa but increasingly in Southern Africa. It aims to assist and improve the quality of life of the people most affected by environmental injustices.
Broad civil society network of organizations, movements, local communities, trade unions, churches and citizens, from four different south-eastern Brazilian states, who are concerned about the on-going expansion of eucalyptus plantations in their regions, as well as the sale of "carbon credits"; at the same time, the network tries to show the viability of alternative models of development being implemented by several member movements and communities at the grassroots level.
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NEWS
Selected news
U.N. Decade Hopes to Push Back Encroaching Deserts
Mon Aug 16 2010 - Source:
IPS
Desertification has long been recognised as a major environmental, economic and social problem for countries the world over. But despite major efforts, which started with the United Nations Conference on Desertification (UNOCD) in 1977, the process of land degradation is intensifying.
Chair issues draft text as Kyoto Protocol session ends
Thu Aug 12 2010 - Source:
TWN
The week-long session of the working group under the Kyoto Protocol ended on Friday 6 August with the issuance of a new 50-page draft proposal by the Chair of the group, and a closing plenary in which developing countries strongly criticised developed countries for their so far abysmal plans to cut emissions and the apparent refusal of many of them to commit to a second commitment period of the Protocol.
Cooking Up a Climate Deal
Mon Aug 09 2010 - Source:
IPS
Another round of negotiations towards a global treaty on climate change concluded in Bonn, with activists calling on parties to rediscover a spirit of compromise and make offers rather than demands.
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