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CHURCH OF ENGLAND TACKLES ITS CARBON FOOTPRINT |
Speaking at Lambeth Palace at an event to mark the third anniversary of the Church of England's environmental campaign, the Bishop of London, the Right Reverend Richard Chartres urged representatives from all dioceses to go one step further in cutting their carbon, reminding them that caring for the planet is a Christian imperative for the sake of future generations.
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ETHIOPIA LOOKS FOR RAIL PARTNERS |
The Ethiopian Government is looking for partners to help it realise plans to construct an extensive new railway system, to include 5,000 kilometres of new track. The system will be electrified to take advantage of the country’s hydropower potential.
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UN INVESTIGATES FOOD PROFIT ALLEGATIONS |
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An investigation has been launched by the UN relief agency in Somalia, after a Channel Four programme alleged that food intended as aid was being sold for profit in Mogadishu. |
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Mercury prize winning band the Klaxons, has called for more support for solar power in the UK. The band, now recording its second album, has joined the ‘We Support Solar’ campaign to pressurise the Government to reward those who make use of the sun and make headway in the fight against climate change.
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PRESIDENT’S BLOG FROM CHINA |
CIWEM President, Alastair Moseley, offers some highlights from his current visit, accompanied by CIWEM’s Director of International Development, Paul Horton.
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REDD (Reduced Emissions for Deforestation and Degradation) is a UN proposal to pay developing countries for preserving forests and, in so doing, helping to reduce global carbon emissions. Rod Harbinson, head of the Panos London environment programme talks to indigenous groups and conservationists. This audio report is available courtesy of Panos London. |
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UNWANTED KEYS WILL OPEN DOORS FOR THE HOMELESS |
Londoners are being asked to hand over their unwanted keys to help unlock the potential of homeless and disadvantaged people.
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HAVE WE LOST THE CALL OF THE WILD? |
Woodlands, countryside and parks have become out of bounds to a generation of ‘cotton wool kids’ with fewer than ten percent playing in such places, according to new research results revealed by Natural England. In addition, less than a quarter (24 percent) of children said they visit a patch of nature near their home on a weekly basis, compared with over half of adults (53 percent) who visited a local nature patch weekly when they were young.
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EU PUBLISHES CLIMATE CHANGE WHITE PAPER |
Actions needed to help Europeans cope with the changing climate have been outlined in the newly published European Commission White Paper. The framework presented by the Commission sets out a two-phase strategic approach to adapting to the impacts of climate change.
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CHERNOBYL VICTIMS REMEMBERED WITH MUSIC |
The devastating explosion that occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, on 26 April 1986, left two people dead from the initial steam explosion and countless others victims to radiation from the nuclear explosion.
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INDIAN INNOVATOR AND SOCIAL REFORMER WINS STOCKHOLM WATER PRIZE |
Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of the Sulabh Sanitation Movement in India, has been named the 2009 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate. As the Founder of the Sulabh International Social Service Organisation, Pathak is known around the world for his wide ranging work in the field of sanitation, improving public health, advancing social progress and promoting human rights in India and other countries. His accomplishments span the fields of sanitation technology, social enterprise, and healthcare education for millions of people in his native country, serving as a model for NGO agencies and public health initiatives around the world.
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WOMEN ARE KEY TO TACKLING CLIMATE CHANGE |
Women represent more than 50 percent of the world’s population yet continue to be under-represented in global governments. CIWEM wants International Women’s Day on 8 March to promote more active involvement from women in environmental decision-making at all levels.
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NOBEL LAUREATE CALLS FOR NEW FINANCIAL ORDER TO ADDRESS WORLD PROBLEMS |
Nobel Prize winner, Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank has called for an urgent redesign of the world’s financial systems and a major shift to a more ‘inclusive’ banking system through microcredit and social business.
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The payback period of carbon costs induced by the production, transportation and construction of the materials to be used at the Severn Barrage would be less than six months, according to a recent study published in CIWEM’s Water and Environment Journal.
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GM FEEDS ONLY BIOTECH GIANTS |
Friends of the Earth International has warned that biotech crops are benefiting biotech food giants instead of small farmers and the world’s hungry population, which due to the food crisis is projected to increase to 1.2 billion by the year 2025.
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Franny Armstrong’s must see climate change film, The Age of Stupid, will be released at 35 cinemas across the UK on the weekend of 20-22 March 2009.
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BALLADS FOR A LIVING PLANET |
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On 26 April the Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra will be ‘going green’ by staging an Environmental Prom, promoted by CIWEM and the Birmingham Community Foundation at the city’s world famous Symphony Hall. |
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A new report, State of the World’s Fisheries and Aquaculture 2008, released by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), says that food supplies from aquaculture now equal those from ocean and freshwater capture fisheries. The report also documents a continuing drop-off in yields from the world's marine capture fisheries.
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