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Wednesday 8 May 2013, 18:30-20:00 Venue: Auditorium Jacques Freymond, Site Barton, 132 rue de Lausanne, 1202 Geneva, 18:30
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The wide coverage of Beijing’s air, which has been rated “hazardous” or even worse by foreign and local monitors since last week, was the most open display of coverage on the issue in recent memory. Delete the scoop?
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Thaïlande: Une coopérative d’échange « déchets recyclables contre nourriture » aide les plus démunis
Ouvert par des anciens éboueurs, le petit magasin ‘zéro cash’ permet à des Thaïlandais qui vivent en récupérant les déchets recyclables, de les échanger contre des produits de première nécessité. Un système original qui va probablement faire des émules dans le monde entier. Via @Chuchoteuse d'Alternatives, Barbara B.
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Un système qui revient au troc. Il sérait intéressant de le comparer avec des autres systèmes d'échange de déchets contre argent. Delete the scoop?
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Bhutan's new approach to education incorporates the principles of its index to measure prosperity through Gross National Happiness into the curriculum. Its green schools initiative aims to teach children about environmental conservation and sustainable living, although reaching schools in more remote regions takes more time Delete the scoop?
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In 2010, the value of global minerals production was four times higher than in 2002. At the same time, there are 40 countries with significant dependence on mineral exports. Thirty of those are low or middle income countries and many have low Human Development Index scores.
This data demonstrates that mining has a significant and growing role to play in economic development in general and poverty reduction in particular. Evidence from ICMM case studies in Chile, Ghana and Brazil illustrates that mining areas have enjoyed stronger poverty reduction and social development performance than non-mining areas. Delete the scoop?
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Le petit royaume himalayen, connu pour sa quête du «bonheur national brut», voudrait devenir le premier pays au monde à vivre d’une agriculture «100% biologique». Delete the scoop?
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The government's mining policy is destroying the country's biodiversity and tiger habitats, an NGO on Sunday claimed and sought a relook into the 'massive' expansion plan of coal fields in forest areas.
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Africa's proposed 4,000-mile wall of trees stretching from Senegal to Djibouti is designed to stop encroaching desertification.. Delete the scoop?
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Indigenous smallholder farmers are being violently evicted as companies move in to satisfy Europe's hunger for biofuels... Delete the scoop?
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Gro Harlem Brundtland, the former Norwegian prime minister and chairwoman of the Brundtland commission, has criticised the call to action issued by UN Women on Thursday for not including women's reproductive rights in the text.
Brundtland, a member of the Elders, said omitting a specific reference to reproductive rights represented "a step backwards from previous agreements" on women's empowerment and gender equality. She also criticised vague wording on gender in the Rio+20 draft outcome document. Delete the scoop?
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The draft outcome document of the Rio+20 summit mentions smallholder farmers – many of them women – in growing acknowledgment of their importance in terms of food security, with the continued threat of famine in the Sahel, and environmental sustainability, as farming accounts for at least 14% of global greenhouse emissions. Delete the scoop?
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Brazil has a proud record of protecting the environment, but a bill allowing deforestation would undermine the Rio+20 summit... Delete the scoop?
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Pastoralism in east Africa is being eroded by land-grabbing, environmental degradation and resettlement programmes, but in regions such as Borena in southern Ethiopia pastoralists have adapted to ensure that their way of life can be a defence against hunger... Delete the scoop?
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The wide coverage of Beijing’s air, which has been rated “hazardous” or even worse by foreign and local monitors since last week, was the most open display of coverage on the issue in recent memory. Delete the scoop?
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Les paysans de l’Altiplano étaient loin de se douter que le quinoa pouvait prospérer si loin de la Cordillère.
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Les paysans de l’Altiplano étaient loin de se douter que le quinoa pouvait prospérer si loin de la Cordillère. Son introduction dans les Pays de la Loire fait craindre une baisse des exportations vers l’Europe, tandis que l’annonce d’une demande de brevet sur ses utilisations cosmétiques soulève l’indignation au Pérou et en Bolivie. Delete the scoop?
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Biofuel expansion has contributed to spikes in food prices and a shortage of farmland; both are felt keenly in Guatemala, with its corn-based diet and land owned by a handful of families. Delete the scoop?
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Vietnam's remote forests have finally come to the attention of ecologists, but efforts to protect wildlife and people risk being stymied by the habits – and hardship – of poachers and loggers
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Are oil-rich Gulf states, once a byword for waste and excess, really now leading the world on sustainable development? Delete the scoop?
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Gérard RUIZ, président du Partenariat Mondial pour un Tourisme Durable, a répondu à nos questions à l’occasion du colloque "Les enjeux géopolitiques du tourisme" organisé par l’IRIS le 29 septembre à Enghien-les-Bains :
L’association du tourisme et du développement durable est-elle réalisable ?
Quel est le rôle du Partenariat Mondial pour un Tourisme Durable ? Delete the scoop?
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The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) loosk at performance indicators tracked across ten policy categories, covering both environmental public health and ecosystem vitality. If one looks across the Americas, it locates Mexico right above Canada, the United States, Paraguay, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Uruguay, and many others. The median score for the region is 66.8. Via Jorge Flores Kelly, Tony Burton Delete the scoop?
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Biofuels were once seen as a sustainable alternative to some fossil fuels, but evidence shows demand in EU countries for biofuels to run vehicles has led to increased greenhouse gas emissions, rising food prices and more hunger. In the Kisarawe region of Tanzania, more than 19,000 acres of land are being used for a biofuel plantation. ActionAid has been working with affected communities to help them assert their land rights Delete the scoop?
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Sans remettre en cause la nécessité d’accords globaux sur les questions environnementales, le président bolivien a accusé les pays du Nord d’imposer des politiques interventionnistes sous prétexte de nécessité écologique. Cette critique se joint au mécontentement des acteurs de la société civile. Ils déplorent la mauvaise foi et le manque d’engagement des Etats qui se sont réunis du 20 au 22 juin à Rio. Delete the scoop?
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The UN has created the "Inclusive Wealth Index", a comprehensive look at a country's wealth that takes things like forests and rivers into account.
Comprised of human, natural and produced capital, the index covers 20 countries between 1990 and 2008. Between them they account for 58% of the world's population and 73% of its GDP.
As GDP does not consider natural-resource depletion or environmental degradation, the UN's index records lower annual average growth in wealth compared with GDP, of 1.7 percentage points. Via Waldo Soto Bruna Delete the scoop?
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Farmers find that restoring soils with trees helps to boost crops in a region where drought has brought successive food crises... Delete the scoop?
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Campaign for Global Road Safety urges world leaders to integrate sustainable transport and road safety into the Rio+20 framework... Delete the scoop?
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Very useful and weel done map of Us Aid in the world. Information can be filtered by location, sector, initiative and starting date