Goal 7: News

Deforestation Threatens South With Famine

June 22, 2010, Kongo (IPS) - The trees are falling in Pool, and there are plenty of people to hear the sound. In a painful irony, the end of armed conflict in 2003, has signaled the wholesale devastation of forests in this southern region of the Republic of Congo.

What will we eat when climate change strikes?

9th June 2010, Johannesburg - Diversify food sources; go local, suggests renowned agriculturalist and development expert Hans Herren in the latest news publication by the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN).

Solar Power Has Its Day

8th June, 2010 - There is Sunday of course which was originally and literally Sun's day as a vaguely religious observance. Now there is Solar Day which is not so much a day set aside to honor solar (power) but a day to show how solar power has grown and can be used. This is to be June 19 and will be an annual day of recognition for the growth of clean, solar energy. The premise of Solar Day is simple: a national day of recognition for solar energy, energy independence and protection of the planet.

Restoring Trust After 'Horrible' Copenhagen Conference

7th Jun, 2010 , Bonn - Six months after failing to reach a binding agreement on climate change, negotiators are meeting in Bonn to try to get the process back on track. But deep disagreement over measuring developing countries' emissions and finding funds for adaptation to climate change remain unresolved.

Latin America, EU Set Sights on Cancún Summit

25th May 25, 2010, Madrid - Governments from the European Union and from Latin America and the Caribbean are confident that at year's end the international climate conference will produce a concrete legal mandate to truly protect the environment.

AFRICA: Changing technologies to keep up with climate change

10th May 2010, Nairobi - Technological innovation is key to helping African farmers cope with the increasing challenges posed by climate change, say specialists.

Sanitation and water must no longer play second fiddle to other priorities

21st April 2010, Washington – Between 1997 and 2008, aid commitments for sanitation and water fell from 8% of total development aid to 5%, lower than commitments for health, education, transport, energy and agriculture, according to the latest UN-Water Global Annual Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) report, launched today by UN-Water and the World Health Organization (WHO).

Confidential document reveals Obama's hardline US climate talk strategy

12th April 2010 - A document accidentally left on a European hotel computer and passed to the Guardian reveals the US government's increasingly controversial strategy in the global UN climate talks.

URUGUAY:  Fighting Climate Change from the Countryside

7th April 2010, SAN JOSÉ, Uruguay, (IPS) - "We would get up and go to bed every day looking up at the sky, hoping for something to fall, but nothing happened, not even a drop fell," says María Inés Queiros, who makes artisanal cheese in the southern Uruguayan province of San José.

'National Geographic' Water Issue: Emerging Problems Have Many Solutions, But Will We Act Fast Enough?

5th Arpil 2010 - National Geographic has a special issue out this month, devoted exclusively to our planet’s diminishing water supply. As Barbara Kingsolver writes in the opening essay..

ENVIRONMENT-ZIMBABWE: Future Generations Will 'Inherit Only the Wind'

3^rd April 2010, Bulawayo (IPS) - The plumes of smoke rising above the dense working class suburbs of Bulawayo are a sign of the environmental impact of Zimbabwe's electricity crisis...

Copenhagen recap; Bonn to Cancun

1st April 2010, - The UNFCC and Reuters compiled a summary of the conclusions of the Copenhagen.  Looking forward to the 7-9 April planning summit in Bonn, Germany, government ministers will identify what was accomplished in Copenhagen, and what failed to happen in hopes to move forward into Mexico City COP16 summit this December.

Climate change 'will leave 25 million more children hungry'

30th September 2009, Abuja - Climate change could leave an extra 25 million children malnourished by 2050 unless heavy investments in adaptive measures are made, claims a major new report...