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GLOBAL: Pressure on to reach emissions agreement
22 August 2008
(IRIN
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Industrialised and developing countries will be under intense pressure to agree on greenhouse gas emission reduction targets during week-long negotiations over future greenhouse gas emission targets which kicked off in the Ghana capital Accra on 21 August.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/79953/GLOBAL-Pressure-on-to-reach-emissions-agreement
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: SADC meal planning
22 August 2008
(IRIN
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The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has announced it will go ahead with plans to set up a regional grain reserve, while urging member states not to impose export restrictions on maize as the region grapples with high food prices.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/79946/SOUTHERN-AFRICA-SADC-meal-planning
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GLOBAL: Cyclones, storms and hurricanes
21 August 2008
(IRIN
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One symptom of climate change is more severe tropical cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons, featuring in the headlines more often.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/79932/GLOBAL-Cyclones-storms-and-hurricanes
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GLOBAL: What we are doing about climate change
5 August 2008
(IRIN
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In developing countries, where survival is often a daily struggle, people cannot afford to wait for their government to bail them out. Many are living in the grip of climate change, coping with frequent droughts, heavy flooding, intense cyclones and other extreme weather events, and have found ways to adapt:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/79646/GLOBAL-What-we-are-doing-about-climate-change
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GLOBAL: Food aid on the back burner as WTO talks collapse
4 August 2008
(IRIN
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As countries grapple with high food prices, attempts to draw attention to an inefficient food aid delivery system have been pushed to the back burner after the World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks collapsed last week.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/79604/GLOBAL-Food-aid-on-the-back-burner-as-WTO-talks-collapse
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GLOBAL: What climate change does - The 2nd in a three-part series
31 July 2008
(IRIN
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The world can expect to become about 0.2°C warmer per decade for the next two decades, according to several scenarios prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). Even if the concentrations of all greenhouse gases and aerosols were kept constant at the levels they were in 2000, further warming of about 0.1°C per decade would still be expected.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/79563/GLOBAL-What-climate-change-does-The-2nd-in-a-three-part-series
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GLOBAL: How climate change works
29 July 2008
(IRIN
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Climate change is complicated, but it doesn't have to be:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/79508/GLOBAL-How-climate-change-works
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GLOBAL: Calls to reduce taxes and controls on food aid
28 July 2008
(IRIN
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The World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a call by the World Bank for a UN resolution to scrap taxes and export controls on food aid purchases, but experts say there is little chance of such a resolution being effected.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/79483/GLOBAL-Calls-to-reduce-taxes-and-controls-on-food-aid
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GLOBAL: Humanitarian futures (part 2) - "the crisis of humanitarianism"
25 July 2008
(IRIN
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The global humanitarian enterprise could lose touch with the needs of its beneficiaries because of political and security priorities, especially the “war on terror”, according to a new report.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/79437/GLOBAL-Humanitarian-futures-part-2-the-crisis-of-humanitarianism
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GLOBAL: Humanitarian futures (part one) - "exponential complexity"
24 July 2008
(IRIN
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It's the year 2018. A massive crisis is devastating the Horn of Africa, combining drought, huge migrations, urban desperation and there's little in the way of safety nets. Meanwhile, a major earthquake on the San Andreas Fault has hammered California. US government agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are already overstretched.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/79426/GLOBAL-Humanitarian-futures-part-one-exponential-complexity
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