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Thu, 2009-01-29 13:15 — mdmcdonald

The mission of this working group is to explore the evidence regarding points of leverage assisting human groups in coping with or reducing the risk of global climate change.

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Science alone not enough to boost world farm output

Fri, 2010-04-23 08:28 — mdmcdonald

(Reuters) - Feeding a fast-growing global population in the face of climate change and stagnant funding for food aid and farm research will require a fundamental revamp of agriculture, agricultural experts said. GREEN BUSINESS | COP15 But unlike the "Green Revolution" that dramatically hiked agricultural output in Latin America and Asia from the 1950s, a new agricultural restructuring will need to focus as much on new seed varieties as on good governance, women's empowerment and things like curbing commodities speculation, they added. "We cannot address world food security risks effectively only through a science and technology agenda," Joachim von Braun, former director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), told a conference Sunday. "We need to get appropriate market regulations to prevent excessive speculation," he added on the opening day of the conference held in southern France to discuss a roadmap to reform agricultural research to meet development goals. Speculation in food markets contributes to fuelling price swings that can undercut the ability of farmers to plan, often leading them to over or under-produce.

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Group Think and Climate Change

Sun, 2009-12-20 10:29 — admin

Global Warming as Groupthink
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's process institutionalizes groupthink on a global scale.

By PETER LILLEY

Is the U.S. Really Ready to Make Substantive Efforts to Control Climate Change?

Fri, 2009-12-18 09:28 — admin

President Obama's speech in Copenhagen speaks strongly to his Administration's intent to control climate change. However, is the U.S. truly ready to live us to commitments the Obama Administration is prepared to make to the world community?

Why Copenhagen Still Matters: The climate talks won't seal a binding global deal, but a lot can still go right in Denmark

Sat, 2009-12-12 06:49 — admin

BusinessWeek Special Report

By Eileen Claussen

Two years ago this week, on the island of Bali, representatives of 180 nations agreed on an ambitious timeline for reaching a global agreement to address climate change. The Bali Road Map, as it was called, identified key issues to be resolved and set a 2009 deadline for completing the negotiations.

Climate change and social determinants of health: two interlinked agendas

Mon, 2009-07-13 13:05 — admin

Luiz Augusto C. Galvão, Sally Edwards, Carlos Corvalan, Kira Fortune and Marco Akerman
Pan American Health Organization PAHO/WHO – Area of Sustainable Development and Environment
Global Health Promotion 1757-9759; Supp (1): 81–84; 103761 SAGE Publications 2009, DOI: 10.1177/1757975909103761

Available online PDF [5p.] at: http://ped.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/16/1_suppl/81

McKinsey on Climate Change

Wed, 2009-04-22 17:33 — admin

http://whatmatters.mckinseydigital.com/climate_change

Study Finds Pattern of Severe Droughts in Africa

Wed, 2009-04-22 16:47 — admin

By ANDREW C. REVKIN
Published: April 16, 2009
For at least 3,000 years, a drumbeat of potent droughts, far longer and more severe than any experienced recently, have seared a belt of sub-Saharan Africa that is now home to tens of millions of the world’s poorest people, climate researchers report in a new study.

The scientists warned that more such mega-droughts are inevitable, although there is no way to predict when the next one could unfold.

Inventor turns cardboard boxes into eco-friendly oven

Thu, 2009-04-09 12:38 — admin

By Saeed Ahmed
CNN

(CNN) -- When Jon Bohmer sat down with his two little girls for a simple project they could work on together, he didn't realize they'd hit upon a solution to one of the world's biggest problems for just $5: A solar-powered oven.

Inventor Jon Bohmer with the oven he has made out of a cardboard box.

The ingeniously simple design uses two cardboard boxes, one inside the other, and an acrylic cover that lets in the sun's rays and traps them.

HOW DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ARE COPING WITH THE GLOBAL CRISIS

Fri, 2009-03-13 13:06 — admin

SWIMMING AGAINST THE TIDE:
HOW DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ARE COPING WITH THE GLOBAL CRISIS

Background Paper prepared by World Bank Staff for the G20 Finance Ministers and Central
Bank Governors Meeting, Horsham, United Kingdom on March 13-14, 2009

Available online PDF [21p.] at:
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/NEWS/Resources/swimmingagainstthetide-march2009.pdf

SAISPHERE: Water: The New Reality (pdf version)

Fri, 2009-03-13 11:12 — admin

Below are a list of the articles in the new SAISPHERE focusing on the new understandings regarding global water supplies.

For more information:

http://www.sais-jhu.edu/pressroom/publications/saisphere/2008/index.htm

The World Is Dry (pdf version)
by Erik R. Peterson

Getting to the Bottom of Water Scarcity (pdf version)
by Pieter Bottelier

The Mediterranean: Byway or Barrier? (pdf version)
by Esther Brimmer

The Price of Power in the Mekong Delta (pdf version)
by Frederick Z. Brown

Grains of Gold: Water in Central Asia (pdf version)
by John Daly

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