Posts Tagged ‘economy’
Africa Builds United Position on Climate Change
An African Union proposal demanding billions of dollars in compensation for the impacts of climate change is taking shape.
It is time for Africa to aggressively engage with climate change negotiations to ensure its interests are met in the designing of global responses, said African Union (AU) Commission chair Jean Ping.
AU officials say the lack of [...]
Nobel Laureate to Keynote at Africa’s Premier Green Business Summit
Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) will keynote at the inaugural Green Business Africa Summit & Expo 2010 (GBASE02010), an event that will bring to the mainstream issues around sustainability in the business environment as well as green corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Africa.
“Dr Pachauri [...]
Climate Change Concerns by African Scientists
By Paul Okunlola*
“The crisis of the 21st Century may not be triggered by ideology but by competition for natural resources, particularly in Africa.”
That was the stark message delivered by Dr. Cheikh Mbow, a bio-geography and remote sensing expert from the Universite Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal declared recently in Ougadougou, Burkina Faso.
Listing as tell-tale [...]
Agriculture in Developing Nations Can Address Food Security
By Marshall Bouton*
As the world still struggles to deal with the first truly global recession, little attention has been given to the growing number of hungry people and the possibility of mounting food crises in the years ahead.
According to the World Bank, over a billion people around the world are now chronically hungry.
Stagnant agricultural productivity, [...]
Kofi Annan: Give Voice to Climate Change Victims
“This conference must provide a powerful voice for the victims of climate change,” Kofi Annan said in opening remarks at the second annual Global Humanitarian Forum, which opened Tuesday morning 23 June in Geneva.
The forum is focusing on the impact on humans of climate change during the two days which brings together leaders from government, [...]
