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Preparing for a Chinese Eton
- Inter Press Service
Zhou Hongxia thought the King’s Scholars classroom was cold and damp and rather dark, the wooden benches carved and stained with the ink of hundreds of students that have filed through it over the centuries.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Rumours and Pessimism Reign Midway Through Cancún Summit
- Inter Press Service
At the end of the first week of climate negotiations under way in this Mexican Caribbean resort city, it seems a distant possibility that the nearly 200 national delegations will agree on renewing the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.
CLIMATE CHANGE: REDD at Cancún Causes Angst in India
- Inter Press Service
Forest rights advocates and indigenous community organisations from India are adding their voices to what promises to become the newest division in the climate talks here: the inclusion of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation + in developing countries, or REDD+, as an agreement.
INDIA: Brakes Applied to SUVs - 'Socially Useless Vehicles'
- Inter Press Service
Indian owners of sports utility vehicles (SUVs) and luxury cars, who have been benefiting from subsidies on diesel meant to help farmers, may soon have to pay real prices for their fuel.
U.S.-WEST AFRICA: Report Urges Enhanced Maritime Security
- Inter Press Service
The United States and its allies should give much more attention - and resources - to ensuring that weak West African governments along the oil- and gas-rich Gulf of Guinea can protect their territory and coastal regions from terrorists, drug and human traffickers, and other threats, according to new report by an influential think tank released here this week.
Southern Africa Collectively Gearing Up For REDD
- Inter Press Service
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is moving to support its member countries to tap into benefits from the reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) framework.
LATIN AMERICA: Biodiversity Superpower Faces Development Dilemma
- Inter Press Service
If Latin America is to sustain continued economic growth, it faces the dilemma of either threatening its rich biodiversity or transforming into a global leader in providing environmental services based on its unique ecosystems.
CLIMATE CHANGE: New Forest Agreement - REDD Hot Issue at Cancún
- Inter Press Service
A large number of social organisations are not pleased with the international convention on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) being negotiated at the COP16 climate summit.
Q&A: 'More Women Peacekeepers Is Not the Solution'
- Inter Press Service
For two decades, women around the world have marked 'Sixteen Days of Activism Against Gender Violence', which fall between the International Day Against Violence Against Women on Nov. 25 and International Human Rights Day on Dec. 10.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Lost in Cancún
- Inter Press Service
'The hurricane season officially ended on Nov. 30,' a local shopkeeper told this journalist reassuringly as she entered his store with her hair blown in every direction by the wind on a drizzly, cloudy day.
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