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Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:58:36 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/United-Nations/Financial-storm-dims-hope-of-UN-climate-pact_18_193_808_134470.html Reuters: Global financial mayhem is dimming prospects for a strong new UN pact to fight climate change, but it might aid cheap green schemes such as insulating buildings to save energy, analysts said. The turmoil, straining government coffers with bank bailouts, may sap interest in more costly projects such as burying heat-trapping carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants, refining biodiesel or some renewable energies. "There will be a shift in investments" toward energy efficiency, ... Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:30:10 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/United-Nations/Zambia-Coping-With-Less-and-Less-Water_18_193_808_134459.html UN Integrated Regional Information Networks: Deforestation has affected the water cycle in one of Zambia's largest charcoal-producing regions, forcing residents to adopt unsustainable farming practices in the wetlands, say experts. Since the 1990s, several perennial streams in the Kaoma district of Western Province have become seasonal and some have even dried up, while the water level in the Luena River, which flows through the town of Kaoma, has dropped, say residents. Morris Muchinda, director of the Zambia ... Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:38:27 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/United-Nations/Financial-Crisis-Dim-Hopes-Of-New-UN-Climate-Treaty_18_193_808_134432.html The global financial crisis is dampening hopes for a robust new United Nations agreement to combat global climate change, analysts say. Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:40:17 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/United-Nations/Financial-storm-dims-hope-of-tough-UN-climate-pact_18_193_808_133953.html Global financial mayhem is dimming prospects for a strong new U.N. pact to fight climate change, but it might aid cheap green schemes such as insulating buildings to save energy, analysts said. Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:15:23 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/United-Nations/Delhi-Project-Acts-to-Tackle-Poverty_18_193_808_133833.html By Crawford, Jenny Securing space in a city masterplan for recycling has benefited local communities, writes Jenny Crawford The UN's millennium development goals offer "a resuscitation of planning", claims Professor Ananya Roy of the University of California, Berkeley, opening a discussion in the June edition of Planning Theory and Practice. Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:50:29 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/United-Nations/EU-urged-to-agree-on-climate-before-December-UN-talks-open-in-Poland_18_193_808_133821.html The European Union must reach a consensus on climate policy if it wants to play a leading role in U.N.-led talks on a new pact to cut greenhouse gases, a Polish official said on Tuesday. Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:07:28 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/United-Nations/Want-to-Save-the-Earth-UN-Says-Cut-Meat-From-Your-Diet-Once-a-Week_18_193_808_133731.html According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation, meat production is responsible for nearly a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions. Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Nobel Peace Prize winner, suggested: In terms of immediacy of action and the feasibility of bringing about reductions in a short period of time, it clearly is the most attractive opportunity.  Give up meat for one day [a week] initially, and decrease it from there. Via: Guardian Image: Wikimedia Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:52:25 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/United-Nations/EU-urged-to-agree-on-climate-before-UN-talks-open_18_193_808_133538.html Reuters: The European Union must reach a consensus on climate policy if it wants to play a leading role in U.N.-led talks on a new pact to cut greenhouse gases, a Polish official said on Tuesday. A package of climate measures proposed by the European Commission -- the EU executive -- aims, among other things, to cut carbon dioxide emissions by a fifth by 2020 compared with 1990 levels. However, it faces opposition from some member states and from the car industry. France, holder of the ... Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:49:53 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/United-Nations/UN-Report-Predicts-Renewable-Energy-Can-Create-20M-Jobs-by-2030_18_193_808_133406.html Efforts to curb climate change and a growing global market for environmental products and services are expected to create millions of jobs worldwide in the coming decades, according to a report from the United Nations Environment Programme. Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:19:48 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/United-Nations/Nine-Planets-Wanted-UN-Climate-Change-Exhibition_18_193_808_132422.html All eyes have been on the General Assembly sessions at the United Nations HQ this past week, and with good reason, there is a heck of a lot of work to be done in getting our planetary house in order. Aiding this mission is a site-specific art installation called, Nine Planets Wanted!, designed by team [...] Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:53:58 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/United-Nations/UN-Tens-of-Millions-of-New-Green-Jobs-on-the-Horizon_18_193_808_132353.html Environment News Service: Efforts to tackle climate change could result in the creation of millions of new green jobs in the coming decades, according to a new report from the United Nations on the impact of the emerging global green economy. Green jobs reduce the environmental impact of enterprises and economic sectors, ultimately to levels that are sustainable. The report says that delivery of a "deep and decisive new climate agreement" when countries meet for the crucial UN climate convention meeting in ... Sat, 27 Sep 2008 03:59:32 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/United-Nations/UN-predicts-green-job-boom-but-warns-developing-world-could-miss-out_18_193_808_132241.html Business Green: The shift towards a low carbon economy will create millions of jobs and could help accelerate the development of poorer economies, according to a wide ranging report from the UN. The study predicts that a raft of new jobs will be created in sectors such as energy supply, transportation, basic industries, agriculture and forestry. It also estimates that a worldwide transition to energy-efficient buildings would create millions of jobs, as well as "greening" existing employment ... Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:01:28 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/United-Nations/Green-Jobs-Now-_18_193_808_132098.html From Wall St. to the Clinton Global Initiative to the UN Summit, we have watched this week as unprecedented economic and political events unfold in the United States and around the world.  Thankfully, in the midst of these very uncertain times, something beautiful is happening tomorrow. Action. And we don’t mean another bailout proposal. Beacause we [...] Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:26:14 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/United-Nations/Sarah-Palin-and-Alaska-s-Proximity-to-the-Melting-Arctic_18_193_808_132037.html If you haven't seen Sarah Palin explain how Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience, make sure to watch this astonishing video clip from Katie Couric's interview. No doubt, Sarah Palin's jaunt through New York this week, in such close proximity to world leaders assembling at the UN, some of whom sat with her one-on-one no less, have boosted her credentials immeasurably. So how come the same logic of proximity does not apply to global warming? read more Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:33:11 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/United-Nations/WBCSD-Speaks-up-on-Poverty-at-United-Nations-High-Level-Event_18_193_808_131955.html This week, the WBCSD attended a High-Level Event on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), convened in New York City by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The WBCSD argued that while business alone cannot solve poverty, it is an integral part of the solution. It also urged policy-makers to work with business to ensure that solutions to development challenges leverage business expertise, with a view to supporting sustainable livelihoods and making globalization more inclusive. Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:37:20 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/United-Nations/Australia-Clean-coal-plan-divides-green-groups_18_193_808_131940.html Australian: KEVIN Rudd has split green groups by placing new emphasis on clean coal technology to combat climate change, telling the UN its development has to be at the "forefront of the agenda" to cut global carbon pollution from power stations and not destroy the coal industry. In a move that will avoid strife with the powerful Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union, but stir growing divisions in the environmental movement, the Prime Minister has joined former US president Bill Clinton ... Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:04:59 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/United-Nations/UN-forecasts-boom-in-green-jobs-_18_193_808_131748.html BBC: The UN says millions of new jobs will be created worldwide over the next few decades by the development of alternative energy technologies. More than a million people already work in biofuels, but a UN report says that could rise by 12 million by 2030. It says "green jobs" depend on a shift of subsidies from oil and natural gas to wind, solar, and geothermal power. New jobs could also include the expansion of recycling and making environmentally friendly ... Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:04:56 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/United-Nations/U-N-launches-program-to-cut-deforestation-emissions_18_193_808_131746.html Reuters: The United Nations launched a program on Wednesday that it hopes could be the foundation for a system in which rich countries would pay poor ones to slow climate change by protecting and planting forests. The new program, called Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Program, or UN-REDD, will assist nine developing countries, including Bolivia, Indonesia and Zambia, in establishing systems to monitor, assess and report forest cover. "Forests are worth more ... Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:18:48 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/United-Nations/Robert-Mugabe-hits-out-at-UK-and-US-over-sanctions_18_193_808_131702.html Zimbabwe president appeals to UN general assembly to bring pressure for immediate removal of restrictions