Natural Resources
- Wed May 07 2008
Ecuador's mining decree: A cautious victory for communities
Communities and organizations opposed to large scale metallic mining in Ecuador are calling the new mining decree passed by the National Constituent Assembly a win for their movement.
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Environment
- Tue May 06 2008
ADB’s 'climate change hypocrisy' denounced by civil society groups
Asian environmental and human rights groups branded the Asian Development Bank as a "leading world emitter of climate change hypocrisy" for issuing calls for clean energy investments to fight global warming while extending massive funding support for dirty mega-coal projects in Asia.
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Sustainable Development
- Fri May 02 2008
2nd international conference on sustainable tourism
From May 12th to 15th 2008, the Second International Conference on Sustainable Tourism (ICST) will take place in Fortaleza – Brazil. The Conference will attract about 500 participants to discuss community based tourism as a strategy to encourage popular traditional culture, environmental protection, local development and fair trade in tourism.
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Sustainable Development
- Tue Apr 29 2008
Exposing the inadequacies of carbon trading
Carbon trading and offsetting distracts attention from the wider, systemic changes that need to be taken to achieve a low-carbon economy argues Kevin Smith.
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Biodiversity
- Tue Apr 29 2008
An appeal to COP 9: Biodiversity with and for people
Many organizations around the world will give a clear message against the expansion of monoculture tree plantations, agrofuels and GE trees through a letter to be distributed during the Conference of the Parties in Bonn, Germany on 19-30 May of 2008.
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Indigenous Peoples
- Fri Apr 25 2008
Climate a 'life and death' issue for native peoples
Leaders of the world's 370 million indigenous peoples are calling for the United Nations to include their voices in its future talks on climate change.
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Sustainable Development
- Fri Apr 25 2008
Grand Inga: leaving Africans in the dark?
The potential to profit from the world's largest dam project – the Grand Inga hydropower scheme, proposed for the Congo River – drew bankers, engineering firms and industrial interests to London in April 2008 to discuss financing for the $80 billion project. African civil society has been raising concerns about the project for some time, but was blocked from attending the London event.
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Natural Resources
- Thu Apr 24 2008
Privatization of water, health renders MDGs unattainable, says civil society
Civil Society groups participating in the ongoing UNCTAD XII conference in Accra have kicked against the privatization of water and health services.
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Natural Resources
- Fri Apr 18 2008
Coke's liabilities increase in India, shareholders told
Coca-Cola shareholders should be extremely concerned that the Coca-Cola company continues to increase its liabilities in India by engaging in unethical practices, shareholders were told at the Coca-Cola annual general meeting.
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Sustainable Development
- Thu Apr 10 2008
Bangkok talks conclude with 2008 work programme
The Bangkok climate talks under the UN Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) ended after midnight on Friday 4 April by adopting two conclusions.
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