| LEBANON: Despair, trauma, discontent among Nahr al-Bared’s impoverished Palestinians |
 NAHR AL-BARED, 30 September 2008 (IRIN) - Life for 300 Palestinian families and their thousands of other kinsmen displaced from Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon - some for the third time in their lives - might very soon be getting a lot worse, in large part due to the neglect of the region’s Arab states.
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| GLOBAL: "Hot topic" - special journal issue on climate and migration reviewed |
 JOHANNESBURG, 29 September 2008 (IRIN) - The October issue of the Forced Migration Review (FMR), a journal published three times a year by Oxford University's Refugee Studies Centre, is a 38-article buffet on climate change and displacement, a “hot topic” according to Jean-Francois Durieux, a lecturer at the centre.
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| GLOBAL: Charity coffers face credit crunch |
 GENEVA, 26 September 2008 (IRIN) - With the US going through the most significant financial restructuring since the great depression, international aid agencies and NGOs have reason to be wary, observers said.
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| LEBANON: Climate change, fuel prices cutting into forests |
 DUBAI, 25 September 2008 (IRIN) - Devastating fires caused by climate change are threatening forests in Lebanon, in turn accelerating the pace of global warming, an environmental activist has warned.
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| GLOBAL: Govts urged to recognise the right to affordable food |
 JOHANNESBURG, 23 September 2008 (IRIN) - The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food has called on governments to draw up national laws obliging them to take action when there is a threat of famine or food insecurity.
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| GLOBAL: Food wasted is water lost |
 JOHANNESBURG, 29 August 2008 (IRIN) - To meet growing food demand, in another 40 years the world would need enough water to fill at least three lakes the size of Victoria, Africa's largest body of water, according to a projection in a new policy brief. Lake Victoria's estimated volume is 2,750 km3.
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| GLOBAL: Cyclones, storms and hurricanes |
 JOHANNESBURG, 21 August 2008 (IRIN) - One symptom of climate change is more severe tropical cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons, featuring in the headlines more often.
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| GLOBAL: What we are doing about climate change |
 JOHANNESBURG, 5 August 2008 (IRIN) - 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:
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| LEBANON: Displaced Allawis find little relief in impoverished north |
 HISA, AKKAR, 5 August 2008 (IRIN) - They may have been uprooted “more than 40 times” over the years since Lebanon’s Civil War began in 1975, but Hussein Mohammed and his family say they have rarely felt as threatened as they do today.
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| GLOBAL: Food aid on the back burner as WTO talks collapse |
 JOHANNESBURG, 4 August 2008 (IRIN) - 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.
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