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[Financial 24 - News] Europe Economy: Africa, Europe seek to harmonise climate-change ...: (ALGIERS) - Africa seeks a common position with the European Union going into climate-change negotiations next year, Algeria's environment minister said Thursday following pan-African agreement.Environment ministers from almost all of Africa's 53 nations agreed a united front Wednesday to take into December 2009 talks in Copenhagen on replacing the Kyoto Protocol, covering efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.With the current and next holders of the EU's rotating presidency, France and the Czech Republic, in attendance at the Algiers meeting, hopes are rising that a summit in Ethiopia of foreign ministers from the African Union and the EU can agree a declaration by Monday.The idea is to formulate a standard position covering effectively one third of the earth's populated landmass going into the next United Nations conference on climate change which gets under way in Poznan, Poland, in 11 days time."The ministers have decided to enlarge the African alliance to (include) the EU (position): that (united negotiating stance) could be put on the table in Poznan," between December 1 and 12, Cherif Rahmani said."It's about launching a win-win partnership under which each party must share equally the risks," he added. "Africa has accepted its responsibilities, the politics of the empty chair are finished."A complication might be Rahmani's stated desire that any such partnership be signed under AU auspices as well as common negotiating frameworks sought by the Group of 77 developing nations, a coalition which has grown to number 130 countries at the UN, including China, a major investor in Africa.French minister for sustainable development Jean-Louis Borloo and Czech counterpart Jan Duzik said they had been given an EU mandate on October 20 to advance discussions on a common EU-Africa position for Copenhagen.The critical summit in just over 12 months' time is intended to bring about agreement across the international community on a new climate-change treaty to replace the one signed in Kyoto, Japan, whose commitments run out in 2012.Potential deal-breakers for Africa include what to do about deforestation, which scientists say creates substantially more greenhouse gases globally than the world's entire aviation industry.The AU will also seek special aid on dealing with the impact of existing climate change -- with World Bank representative Hocine Chalal pointing out that the continent is responsible for 7.5 percent of the planet's emissions (four percent when narrowed down to sub-Saharan Africa) yet is exposed to some of its most brutal side-effects, including drought, flooding and population migration.The level of investment needed to bring electricity into every African home could also run to some 24 billion dollars (19 billion euros) every year for the next 10 to 20 years, Chalal added.However, Borloo stressed that Africa has enormous potential to develop renewable energy from solar, wind, wave and its mammoth river sources.

[SustainabilityForum.Com - Your Global Sustainability Community!] Africa, Europe seek to harmonise climate-change demands ...: Potential deal-breakers for Africa include what to do about deforestation, which scientists say creates substantially more greenhouse gases globally than the world's entire aviation industry. The AU will also seek special aid on dealing with the impact of existing climate change -- with World Bank representative Hocine Chalal pointing out that the continent is responsible for 7.5 percent of the planet's emissions (four percent when narrowed down to sub-Saharan Africa) yet is exposed to some of its most brutal side-effects, including drought, flooding and population migration.

[www.europafrica.org] Africa and Europe ’seeking to harmonise climate-change demands ...: with World Bank representative Hocine Chalal pointing out that the continent is responsible for 7.5 percent of the planet’s emissions (four percent when narrowed down to sub-Saharan Africa) yet is exposed to some of its most brutal side-effects, including drought, flooding and population migration.

[Wednesday-Night] Africa: economies & governance: Sub-Saharan Africa has great potential for renewable energy use and has rich natural resources in some countries. But the region has pressing environment-related problems such as climate change vulnerability, diseases made worse by environmental factors, unsustainable resource use, and low state attention to environment priorities.

[The Global Sociology Blog] Planet of Slums: The earth will then sustain 5.3 billion people living in cities, 2/3 in Asia and 1/4 in Africa where the urban revolution has been the most brutal.

[Gristmill] Going up? Part 3: "Horticultural infrastructure is the key to climate change adaptation and mitigation in our cities and rural coastlands. When we use well-designed plant systems to manage the storm water that washes out of city sewer systems and in from ocean storms, we can cool our cities, we can save energy, we can clean the air and water, and we can employ the 'unemployable' on career paths that can lead individuals into all sorts of productive activities.

[Pub Philosopher] Another crisis in Africa: I was merely making the point that progress is impossible without some form of population control, and so long as the Catholic church keeps up its total opposition all the undenable good work it does in Africa and the third world generally will be negated. Also so long as it keeps up its opposition to condoms Aids will continue to be a scourge.

[The Factual Opinion] Economist Vs. Idiot: The Line For The Iris Scan Is Not Quicker ...: The new platform is "let's all adapt" which is what you call coping with climate change instead of fixing it. People like it more, because it appeals to the whole "quick-fix" thing the world builds bridges on.

[Comments for The Unapologetic Mexican] Pro-Migrant Voices Grow Stronger | IPC Launches New Immigration ...: to do this and working daily to accomplish this for years now (and have certainly had a measurable effect as it is) I want to point to this part: The Immigration Policy Center welcomes guest-contributions from reputable writers, bloggers, and advocates in the field. So, if you have a passion for this and feel a need to lean your shoulder into the wheel, this might be a good way.

[Global Voices Online] Global Voices Online » DR Congo: Fighting Continues: From the Kabissa Newletter, a project is profiled: The organization aims to plant trees in thirteen Village communities of Ngoketunjia Division, as a means to fight climate change in Cameroon and the world at large.

[The Common Language Project] The Common Language Project » A Treacherous Trek to the Crater's Edge: The regional report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released last year warned that the continued increase of greenhouse gases could put an additional 1.8 billion more people in Africa at risk of water stress by the end of the century. It seems the emissions of rich countries' cars and industries may have made a strange and scientifically circuitous journey thousands of miles from their source to poorer and more vulnerable destinations.

[Global News Blog] POLITICS-MOZAMBIQUE: Ready To Roll : Global News Blog: Overall, women account for 36 percent of Manica’s Municipal Assembly, beating the National Assembly, where 30 percent are women — one of the highest proportions in sub-Saharan Africa, where the average of women in Parliament is 16 percent.

[Untitled] » The Killing Fields of South Africa: Eco-Wars, Species Apartheid ...: Hurricane Katrina, which wiped out the U.S. Gulf Coast in 2005, was just a hint of the social and ecological crises to come, such as global climate change portends. The realization of Malthus’ dystopian vision in no way validates his .

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