Prominent historian and philosopher Noam Chomsky and a dozen other leading authors and activists have appealed for the immediate release of five political prisoners who have languished behind the bars in Pakistan’s northern Gilgit-Baltistan region for raising the voice of victims of climate change.



Noam Chomsky and other 12 major personalities of academia, politics, activism and journalism have called on the Government of Pakistan to drop the charge it has manufactured against a…

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• Global Witness announced that it had left the Kimberley Process, an international diamond regulatory group, because it refused to address links between diamonds, violence and tyranny. Even if these certification schemes manage to address problems at mines, in many cases, the materials must pass roadblocks and pay “taxes” that directly line the pockets of warlords.
• The United…

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Center for Sustainable Development

Climate change is a study in injustice, as the people least responsible suffer the brunt of its impacts.

An excellent brief was released this week by CARE: Adaptation and Food Security. In this short brief, they provide a thorough synopsis of both climate change impacts and potential adaptive solutions.

Climate change impacts on food security:

It is estimated that food production will need to…

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Building Knowledge for Action to avert the Climate threat in East and Horn of Africa

 

The Kenyan-based African Insect Science for Food and Health (icipe) launched yesterday on 30^th march, 2011 the most avoidable technology system, (ADOPT) Adaptation and Dissemination of the ‘Push-Pull’ Technology to Climate Change and is also a kind of preservation on agriculture approach for smallholder cereal livestock production in drier areas to…

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Weather affects people everyday and the weather is also important to human.

 

The Somali media for Environment, Science, Health and Agriculture (SOMESHA) would like to articulate publicly today the current overview on Somalia’s drought impacts.

 

The climate in a certain place does’ not change very much from year to year even though the weather may change a great deal from season to season. So when people talk about climate, they are not talking about the weather…

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World

• Whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks released some 250,000 diplomatic cables from the…

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Somalia is under Systemic Climate Threat, Women Suffer from the Climate Change…

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United Actions is a global project run by a global team of volunteers.

According to the UN Millennium Development Goals Report 2008, gaps remain in the

realization of the MDGs.



Global challenges require a global and concerted action involving all actors. Each citizen

can play a key part. In short, it is crucial that we work together in order to achieve synergy

(i.e. the whole impact of partnership is greater than the sum… Continue