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Hard-Fought Deal in COP 17
COP 17 reached a hard-fought agreement Sunday on a complex and
far-reaching program meant to set a new course for the global fight against
climate change for the coming decades. 194 Parties agreed a pact on
Sunday that for the first time would force all the biggest polluters to take
action to slow the pace of global changing. 
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First conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA-1)
Hosted by the African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC), the secretariat for the ClimDev-Africa Programme, the first conference on Climate Change and development in Africa (CCDA-1) was held between 17 and 19 October 2011 at the United Nations Conference Centre in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Mandated by African Heads of State and Government, as well as by Africa's Ministers of Finance, Planning and Environment , the ClimDev-Africa Programme is a joint initiative of the African Union Commission (AUC), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the African Development Bank(AfDB). The program responds to the urgent challenge that climate change poses to the advancement of Africa's development objectives.
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Go Green Exhibition
The ‘Go Green Afrique – Africa Fair’ was initiated by Initiative Africa and implemented in cooperation with African Renewable Energy Alliance (AREA), Cordaid, the Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce, the Heinrich Boell Stiftung (HBS), the Horn of Africa Regional Environment Centre and Network (HoA-REC/N), the Pan African Youth Union (PAYU), Population Health and Environment (PHE) Ethiopia Consortium and the World Future Council (WFC) to promote sustainable living and production as well as environmentally friendly alternatives.
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Infrastructure and Climate Change
workshop declaration
The
infrastructure and Climate change workshop held on December 31, 2010 brought
together 70 participants from various levels of stakeholders, namely,
government, academia, civil society and development partners. The workshop
produced a nine-point declaration presented hereunder:
Recognizing that
dangerous climate change particularly flooding and drought are happening in the
country repeatedly and studies show that these will continue to increase in
intensity and frequency in the future;
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Rio 2012: Ethiopia’s Input to the Sustainability Summit
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Launching Workshop on DCA supported ECSNCC Capacity Building Project
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Climate Policy Brief 2 which states about Lessons from the Copenhagen Accord for the Implementation of the Cancun Agreements and Climate Policy Brief 3 which is on Sustainable Land Management has been published.
Please go to the Publication page
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Both African Governments and Civil Society
Networks are extending pressure on the UNFCCC Conference taking place here in
Cancun, Mexico from 29 November 2009 to 10 December 2010 to yield a fair,
ambitious and legally binding deal under the umbrella of “Africa-one voice
one position” slogan.
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Today it is raining
and hot at the same time. Cancun is a very beautiful resort city with all its
beaches and good looking hotels. The Mexican government is well prepared to
host as many participants as possible.
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The United Nations Climate Change
Conference in Cancun, Mexico, started on Monday with calls for commitment and
compromise from Parties/Countries. The two-weeks meeting is the sixteenth
Conference of the 194 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the sixth meeting of the 192 Parties to the Kyoto
Protocol.
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“Fertile soil, level plains, easy
passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the
rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man.”
Ellsworth Huntington
The issue of climate
change is a burning issue across the whole world. It can hamper the lives and
the survival of human species damaging the whole ecosystem. Environmental
sustainability has been a crucial issue to promote, in order to maintain a comfortable
living environment, and it is therefore one of the MDGs pillars.
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All Conference of Parties have
peculiar features in terms of bringing forth contentious phrases and concepts.
Normally it takes quite some time before one discovers such ambiguous
terminologies in the negotiating text. Some such phrases that have come out
very loudly in Cancun were vulnerability, [fund] trustee, new and additional
money, etc. This article will focus on one term, vulnerability owing to the
fact that the definition and interpretation of the term have enormous
implications for Ethiopia.
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Both African Governments and Civil Society
Networks are extending pressure on the UNFCCC Conference taking place here in
Cancun, Mexico from 29 November 2009 to 10 December 2010 to yield a fair,
ambitious and legally binding deal under the umbrella of “Africa-one voice
one position” slogan.
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De-briefing from the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference
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