31 March 2012
Indonesia opposition parties block fuel price hike
Leading Indonesian political parties said on Friday they will oppose a government plan to raise fuel prices unless oil prices climb further, dealing a blow to the ruling party's efforts to control a swelling budget deficit in Southeast Asia's largest economy
Reuters | Mar 30, 2012
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Institutions like India's Barefoot College, which teaches women how to run and repair solar installations, and projects like Microformers, which converts old microwave ovens into transformers, show ways to generate cheap electricity in poor regions
By Pete Mercouriou | Global Envision in Christian Science Monitor | March 30, 2012
People install solar panels on the Saint-Michel health center and a fish hatchery in Boucan Carre, Haiti. The panels will provide the town with a dependable electricity supply for the first time. Only a quarter of Haiti's 10 million people has regular access to electricity. In 28 countries, Barefoot College is teaching people to harness solar power for electricity. Dieu Nalio Chery/AP/File
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A World Bank President Who's Not a Crony or a War Criminal?
On Friday, President Obama announced that he is nominating physician and Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to lead the World Bank. This likely appointment was greeted with approval by many long-time critics of corporate globalization. And it came after an unprecedented level of debate about who should be the institution’s next president
By Mark Engler | Foreign Policy in Focus | March 30, 2012
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The United Nations University International Human Dimensions Programme recently ran a writing contest with a focus on the human dimensions of the Green Economy. Young scholars from all over the world were invited to submit their articles, with those from developing countries particularly encouraged to take part. Our World 2.0 is pleased to share the winning entry by Joy Merwin Monteiro who is currently completing his Ph.D. at the Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore
by Joy Merwin Monteiro | OurWorld 2.0 | March 30, 2012
30 March 2012
Up in smoke: ecological catastrophe in the Sumatran swamps
Fires raging unchecked in an Indonesian peat swamp forest could wipe out the remaining Sumatran orang-utans which live there, conservationists are warning
The Independent | 30 March 2012
28 March 2012
The solar envelope: how to heat and cool cities without fossil fuels
Architects all over the world have demonstrated the usefulness of buildings which are heated and cooled by design rather than by fossil fuel energy
by Kris De Decker | Mar 26 2012 by Low-tech Magazine in Energy Bulletin | Mar 26 2012
Global oil risks in the early 21st century
The Deepwater Horizon incident demonstrated that most of the oil left is deep offshore or in other locations difficult to reach. Moreover, to obtain the oil remaining in currently producing reservoirs requires additional equipment and technology that comes at a higher price in both capital and energy. In this regard, the physical limitations on producing ever-increasing quantities of oil are highlighted, as well as the possibility of the peak of production occurring this decade
by Dean Fantazzini, Mikael Höök, and André Angelantoni | Mar 27 2012 by The Oil Drum in Energy Bulletin | Mar 27 2012
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Interview with Tejo Pramono, La Via Campesina and Elisha Kartini,Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI – Indonesian Farmers Union) at SPI’s office, Jakarta, February 2012
By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 27th March 2012
End of coal power plants? EPA proposes new rules
The Obama administration on Tuesday proposed the first-ever standards to cut carbon dioxide emissions from new power plants -- a move welcomed by environmentalists but criticized by some utilities as well as Republicans, who are expected to use it as election campaign fodder
By msnbc.com Staff | MSNBC | March 27, 2012
This coal-fired power plant is used by the city of Chicago, which last month decided to close it down by the end of 2014. A second coal plant will be closed by the end of this year. Chicago is the only large U.S. city with coal-fired power plants operating within its city limits. M. Spencer Green / AP
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A Clearer Picture of Tropical Carbon
Tropical forests, alongside boreal forests and wetlands, are prime ecosystems for storing carbon. Now, researchers have created a new high-resolution map of carbon storage in tropical forests that could play an important role in effective forest management
By DYLAN WALSH | The New York Times | March 27, 2012
Woods Hole Research CenterAbove-ground biomass in southern Asia and Oceania, based on data gathered by laser satellite technology. Dark green indicates the highest potential for carbon storage.
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26 March 2012
Do you believe in climate change?
This may seem like an odd question for a climate scientist to ask, but it is one I am constantly asked now. The typical discussion starts: “I know that the climate is changing, but hasn’t it always changed through natural cycles?” Then they will often give an example, such as the medieval warm period to prove their point
by Vicky Pope | OurWorld 2.0 | March 26, 2012
Palm oil case against 'Green Governor' in Indonesia heats up
Environmental activists have launched an urgent appeal calling for a "just decision" in a court case that has pitted Aceh's "Green Governor" and palm oil developers against efforts to save endangered orangutans in a Sumatran peat forest
Rhett A. Butler | mongabay.com | March 22, 2012
Sumatran orangutan in the Leuser rainforest. Photo by Rhett Butler.
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For peat’s sake, we need an overhaul of forestry aid
On 9 September 2007, Australian Ministers and the Indonesian President announced a $100 million Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership (KFCP). This would involve, it was declared, protecting 70,000 hectares of peat forests, re-flooding 200,000 hectares of dried peatland, and planting 100 million trees in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. What has happened to a project that was promised, as Minister Downer put it back in 2007, to make “a very real and very practical contribution to improving our environment” and yield “immediate and tangible results”?
By Erik Olbrei and Stephen Howes | Reneweconomy | 22 March 2012
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How much ‘unburnable’ carbon is there on the world’s stock exchanges? Last year, the Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI) published an analysis asking this question. CTI compared the global ‘carbon budget’ needed to stay below a rise of two degrees Celsius in average temperatures (above pre-industrial levels) with the emissions potential of the proven coal, oil and gas reserves owned by listed companies
James Leaton | Climate Spectator | 23 Mar 2012
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Japan has shut down another nuclear power station, bringing it a step closer to suspending atomic energy, following the Fukushima disaster
BBC News Asia | 26 March 2012
The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa power station is not currently in operation
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Deceptionomics
This March, at the Environmental Film Festival in Washington, DC, I saw a documentary on the destruction of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan, once the world’s fourth-largest inland lake. Soviet planners and decision makers fifty years ago decided to divert the two main tributary rivers of the Aral to grow cotton. Starved of fresh water inflows, the Aral Sea has shrunk to half its original surface area and lost 75% of its volume
by Brent Blackwelder | The Daly News | March 26, 2012
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For some Saturday’s Anniversary would have been a painful reminder of the reckless behaviour of Big Oil
Andy Rowell | Oil Change International | March 26, 2012
The Delusions of Economics: The Misguided Certainties of a Hazardous Science
In “The Delusions of Economics”, Gilbert Rist presents a radical critique of neoclassical economics from a social and historical perspective
Zed Book | March 2012
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25 March 2012
World’s First 6-MW Wind Turbine Constructed Offshore
The world’s first 6-MW offshore wind turbine went up in the North Sea this week. Wind company REpower and C- Power NV, a Belgian offshore development company, installed the wind turbine, the first of 48 for the Thornton Bank II wind farm, which is being constructed approximately 28 kilometers off the Belgian coast
by Zachary Shahan | CleanTechnica in Climate Progress | Mar 25, 2012
Green energy alone won’t save the Earth without system change
The most popular techno-fix for global warming is green energy. If energy companies would only deploy wind, hydro, solar, geothermal or nuclear, then emission-intensive fossil fuels will eventually disappear. But will that actually work?
By Ian Angus | Climate & Capitalism in Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal | March 21, 2012
'Greed is the Beginning of Everything'
In a SPIEGEL interview, Czech economist Tomas Sedlacek discusses morality in the current crisis and why he believes an economic policy that only pursues growth will always lead to debt. Those who don't know how to handle it, he argues, end up in a medieval debtor's prison, as the Greeks are experiencing today
SPIEGEL Online | March 23, 2012
Czech economist Tomas Sedlacek: "The demands of people are the curse of the gods." Gunter Gluecklich / DER SPIEGEL
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24 March 2012
Blood, sweat and fears: the research scientists in Borneo's rainforests
Louise Murray joined an international team of research scientists in Borneo, where burrowing mites and enraged elephants are just part of a day's work
Louise Murray | guardian.co.uk | 23 March 2012
Timm Döbert, Terhi Riutt, Ed Turner and some field assistants at work in Borneo. Photograph: Louise Murray for the Guardian
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After the Castros: The biological factor
Who and what will follow Raúl?
Special Report The Economist | Mar 24th 2012
Bread and Circuses: The Hunger Games and Ancient Rome
Today marks the much-awaited release of the movie The Hunger Games, based on Suzanne Collins’s enormously popular trilogy of young-adult novels. (You may have seen the film’s stars grace magazine covers well in advance of this week.)
John M. Cunningham | Encyclopedia Britannica Blog | March 23, 2012
Spartacus, 19th-century illustration. Credit: Photos.com/Jupiter Images
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From growth to green growth
What can be done to combine the need for growth with environmental constraints? This column argues that what is needed is to reconcile developing countries’ urgent need for rapid growth and poverty alleviation with the need to avoid irreversible and costly environmental damage
Marianne Fay, Stéphane Hallegatte, Geoffrey Heal, David Tréguer | VOX - Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists | 24 March 2012
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Chile's Copiapo Valley should be a picturesque grape-growing region. Instead, there is mile after mile of rows of withered vines along this stretch of the Atacama Desert
By Katia Moskvitch | BBC News | 23 March 201
In the Atacama Desert, farmers and mining firms fight for water
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Shell in court over Nigeria oil spill compensation
Lawyers representing a Nigerian fishing community are taking the oil firm Shell to court in London over alleged unpaid compensation for recent oil spills
BBC News | 23 March 2012
Ogoni people say their land has been devastated by pollution from the oil industry over many years
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Reclaiming 'common sense': new pamphlet is a rallying cry to the 99%
Today marks the launch of OurKingdom’s version of ‘Common Sense’, a new ebook by Dan Hind about the Occupy movement and deliberative politics. We are publishing the pamphlet in partnership with Myriad Editions and the New Left Project ↑ , who have brought out their own editions. Below, Guy Aitchison talks to Dan Hind about direct democracy and new modes of resistance
Guy Aitchison | OpenDemocracy | 21 March 2012
Report: Water likely to cause conflicts
Water problems in the next decade will contribute to instability in countries important to U.S. national security interests, an intelligence report says
United-Press International | March. 23, 2012
Children sit with water jugs at a refugee camp near Mardan, in northwest Pakistan on May 9, 2009. (UPI Photo/Aajjad Ali Qureshi)
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ITTO, FAO Workshop Addresses Global Forest Reporting
The proceedings of a joint workshop organized by the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), the Montreal Process, FOREST EUROPE, and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), to discuss streamlining of global forest reporting, have been released
Climate Change Policy & Practice | 21 March 2012
World Water Day Focuses on Food Security
The 2012 edition of World Water Day, which is held every year on 22 March, focused on the theme "water and food security"
Climate Change Policy & Practice | 22 March 2012
Aviation Summit Calls for Global Framework on Emissions Reductions
The sixth Aviation and Environment Summit discussed the contribution of the aviation industry to sustainable development
Climate Change Policy & Practice | 22 March 2012
Protesting natives shut down Ecuador capital
Protesting natives supported by opponents of President Rafael Correa brought Ecuador's capital to a standstill Thursday, demanding an end to policies they say will open the Amazon rainforest to vast mining projects and ravage the environment
AFP in Yahoo! News | Mar 22, 2012
Ecuadorean natives march to protest policies by President Rafael Correa they say will result in more mining in the Amazon region.
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23 March 2012
SAFI: Forest Department and Merlins Wood process in Pakistan neither consultative nor transparent
In February 2012, REDD-Monitor wrote about a London-based company called Merlins Wood and its REDD-type projects in Pakistan. Sarhad Awami Forestry Ittehad (SAFI), a local NGO, rejected the agreements the company had made in Pakistan. SAFI has now produced a resolution about Merlins Wood
By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 23rd March 2012
21 March 2012
Access to energy - necessary but not sufficient to cut poverty
The UN estimates that 1.4 billion people have no access to electricity, hurting their ability to earn a living or educate their children. But connecting to an electric grid may not be the only solution
By Rachel Cernansky | Dowser.org in Christian Science Monitor | March 20, 2012
A worker speaks on a cell phone as he sits under the solar panels of a new solar farm in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The solar farm is Asia's largest, according to its developer Moser Baer Clean Energy: 305 acres and expected to generate 52 million kilowatt hours of energy annually. A new report suggests that access to energy is a key to economic development in impoverished areas. Amit Dave/Reuters/File
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No, a nation’s geography is not its destiny
If you start in the city center of Nogales, Santa Cruz [Arizona] and walk south for a while, at some point you see houses become much more run down, streets turn decrepit. You have crossed the Mexican border into Nogales, Sonora. Though the two cities are made of the same cloth and were once united, now there are sharp differences between the two
By Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson | Reuters | March 19, 2012
Capitalism: A Ghost Story
Rockefeller to Mandela, Vedanta to Anna Hazare.... How long can the cardinals of corporate gospel buy up our protests?
Arundhati Roy | Outlook India.com | 26 March 2012
Antilla the Hun Mukesh Ambani’s 27-storey home on Altamont Road. Its bright lights, say the neighbours, have stolen the night. CORBIS (FROM OUTLOOK, MARCH 26, 2012)
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The oil price is the new eurozone crisis
No sooner has the pressure on markets from the eurozone crisis begun to ease than investors have found something else to worry about – the oil price
By Tom Stevenson | The Telegraph | 17 Mar 2012
An oil price spike is never welcome but it would be particularly damaging with the global economy in such a weak state Photo: AP
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Deforestation increases in the Congo rainforest
Deforestation in the Congo Basin has increased sharply since the 1990s, reports an extensive new assessment of forests in the six-nation region
mongabay.com | March 20, 2012
Deforestation in the Congo Basin
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Drought spreads to Brazil, crop yields hit
Drought has spread from Argentina and Paraguay to Brazil and is hitting soy yields at a time of growing concerns that regional growth may suffer as pressures mount on commodity prices
United Press International | March. 20, 2012
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Why Indonesia’s Ministry of Forestry is reluctant to investigate APP’s illegal logging of ramin trees
When Greenpeace told the Ministry of Forestry that it had found evidence that Asia Pulp and Paper was illegally logging ramin trees, the Ministry’s response less than enthusiastic. More than two weeks later, the Ministry told Greenpeace that it “intends” to visit APP’s pulp mill. Meanwhile APP has been busy removing the evidence from its timber yards
By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 20th March 2012
PHOTO Credit: Greenpeace
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Numerous non-governmental organisations used the World Water Forum (WWF) held in Marseille last week as an opportunity to remind the international community about the serious global impacts of large dams all over the world
By Cléo Fatoorehchi | Inter-Press Service | Mar. 19, 2012
The World Commission on Dams estimates that 40 to 80 million people have been displaced by the construction of large dams worldwide. Credit: Mario Osava/IPS
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Drilling for Oil in Eden: Initiative to Save Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador Is Uncertain
The most biologically diverse habitat in the western hemisphere, the Yasuní rainforest in Ecuador, is under threat. One hectare contains more species of trees than all of North America, but hidden beneath this Garden of Eden lies temptation: oil worth billions
By R. Douglas Fields | Scientific American | March 17, 2012
Pumping gasoline in Quito, Ecuador. Oil drilling threatens the Yasuní rainforest. Petroleum is Ecuador's primary source of income, but the country's reserves will be depleted in 15-20 years.
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17 March 2012
Gear change on road to Rio?
One of the biggest questions being asked in the lead-up to the Rio+20 conference this June is also one of the oldest
Richard Black | BBC News | 15 March 2012
Reform of the UN's internal democracy is urged
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Towards a New Model of Health and Well-Being
Nora, a woman in her fifties in a wealthy North American suburb, has all the trappings of an enviable life: a devoted husband, two successful children, a beautiful house and the many options that come with financial success. Yet, when we spoke, Nora was despondent
Lisa Meekison Reichenbach | Anthropology News | Mar 15 2012
Alternative finance radicals: Infusing rebellion with entrepreneurial creativity
Several weeks ago I sat in a pub with someone from, what I’d call, ‘the confrontational Left’. He was caught up in passionate indignation at the injustice of the financial sector, highly eloquent at providing a persuasive diagnosis of the flaws of the system that he perceived. His language was phrased in terms of rebellion
by Brett Scott | Mar 16 2012 by OpenDemocracy in Energy Bulletin | Mar 16 2012
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With energy consumption rising as rapidly it is hard to see what is happening when viewed at the level of the individual
by Gail Tverberg | Mar 16 2012 by The Oil Drum in Energy Bulletin | Mar 16 2012
Figure 1. World Energy Consumption by Source, Based on Vaclav Smil estimates from Energy Transitions: History, Requirements and Prospects together with BP Statistical Data for 1965 and subsequent
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In Limón, a sustainable community takes shape
First in a two part series on how EARTH University is innovating new ways to improve the environment in Costa Rica and beyond
By Matt Levin | TicoTimes.net | March 16, 2012
Allan Chávez, EARTH University program development coordinator, explains how manure from a pigpen is converted into heat energy through a tool known as a biodigestor. Photo: Matt Levin
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New research suggests cap and trade programs do not provide sufficient incentives for innovation
Cap and trade programs to reduce emissions do not inherently provide incentives to induce the private sector to develop innovative technologies to address climate change, according to a new study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory| EurekaAlert | 15-Mar-2012
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Following a recent decision by its Cabinet to buy land in Fiji as 'climate change insurance' for its population, Kiribati President, Anote Tong has called on the international community to address the effects of climate change that could wipe out the entire Pacific archipelago
By Brigitte Leoni | UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction | 15 March 2012
Children in the village of Tebikenikora, on Kiribati’s main Tarawa atoll (Photo: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe)
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Sea-Levels Rising: Millions in Coastal USA at Risk
Nearly four million Americans are at risk of severe flooding as climate change raises sea levels and intensifies storm surges during the coming century, new research indicates
Environmental News Wire | March 14, 2012
A U.S. Air Force Reserve crew rescues a family in the coastal Texas town of Nederland trapped on their roof by flood waters from Hurricane Ike, September 13, 2008. (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Paul Flipse courtesy U.S. Air Force)
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16 March 2012
Indonesia asks Britain to take back 1,800 tons of 'illegal' waste
Indonesia has asked Britain to take back 1,800 tonnes of waste after inspectors found liquid and illegal mixed waste in containers marked as "scrap metal," Britain's Environment Agency has said
The Telegraph | 16 March 2012
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Indonesia's Ministry of Forestry signed off on a plan by Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) suppliers to log areas of forest that contained protected ramin species, according to documents released by Greenomics-Indonesia, an activist group
mongabay.com | March 15, 2012
Active clearance of peat swamp forest by APP pulpwood supplier PT Mutiara Sabuk Khatulistiwa. Photo © Greenpeace.
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Coal-reliant Poland increasingly out of step with Europe on climate change
Frustrations with Poland are growing in the European Union after the coal-powered nation for a second time blocked the EU’s long-term plans for cutting carbon emissions
By Associated Press | The Washington Post | March 14, 2012
Coal is transported at the Zeran Heating Plant in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, March 14, 2012. Frustrations with Poland are growing in the EU after the coal-powered nation blocked for a second time last week. (Alik Keplicz/Associated Press)
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Rare earths and climate change: In a hole?
Demand for some rare-earth elements could rapidly outstrip supply
The Economist | Mar 17th 2012
Time to start digging for victory
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Asia climate disasters displace 42 million: ADB
Climate-related disasters have displaced more than 42 million people in Asia over the past two years, the Asian Development Bank said Tuesday in a report calling for swift action to avert future crises
AFP in Yahoo! News | Mar 13, 2012
An aerial view of a flooded area of Sanghar in 2011
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When the Mining Is Over, a Toxic Mess Remains
The East Kalimantan administration has revealed that 230 degraded coal mining concessions in the province have never been restored by the concession holders, despite their obligation to do so
Tunggadewa Mattangkilang | Jakarta Globe | March 08, 2012
Coal mining at Kaltim Prima Coal (KPC), PT. Bumi Resources in East Kalimantan. Land reclamation efforts in East Kalimantan have been hampered by the central government's reluctance to release jamrek funds. The province is now littered with toxic abandoned mines. (Photo Courtesy of PT. Bumi Resources)
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15 March 2012
Dire Poverty Falls Despite Global Slump, Report Finds
A World Bank report shows a broad reduction in extreme poverty — and indicates that the global recession, contrary to economists’ expectations, did not increase poverty in the developing world
By ANNIE LOWREY | The New York Times | March 6, 2012
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In a letter to top-level U.S. Treasury officials, Daniel Kammen wrote that he will be "bitterly disappointed" if the World Bank finances a 600-megawatt lignite-fired power station outside the Kosovo capital of Pristina
By Lisa Friedman | E&E News in Bank Information Center | 14 March 2012
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This paper examines the impact of oil price changes on global economic growth. Unlike some recent studies, this paper finds that oil price rises have had significant negative impacts on world economic growth
by Dr. Mingqi Li | Mar 14 2012 by The Oil Drum in Energy Bulletin | Mar 14 2012
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Australia's climate is warming at an alarming rate and oceans around the continent have been rising by as much as a centimetre a year, according to a new government report
By Jonathan Pearlman | The Telegraph | 14 Mar 2012
A dust storm hits Bondi Beach back in 2009. According to the report Australia has recorded its 13 hottest years on record since 1997. Photo: EPA
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14 March 2012
A tough-oil world
A Tough-Oil World: Why High Gas Prices Are Here to Stay
by Michael T. Klare | Mar 13 2012 by Tom Dispatch in Energy Bulletin | Mar 13 2012
Interview with Chip Fay and Steve Rhee, Climate Land Use Alliance
“It’s about land use rationalisation based on the recognition of rights of local communities”
By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 14th March 2012
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These women don't hand out aid. They're creating innovative new ways for women – and men – to lift themselves out of poverty
By Kyla Springer | Global Envision in Christian Science Monitor | March 13, 2012
CEO and founder of Samasource Leila Janah takes part in a session during the Clinton Global Initiative in New York in 2010. Samasource provides women in developing countries with 'microwork' via the Internet, reducing poverty. Lucas Jackson/Reuters/File
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