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Rwanda Green Fund Investments Paying Big Dividends

Andrew Burger August 16, 2016

Issuing its ninth request for proposals this week, Rwanda's Green Fund, FONERWA continues to empower Rwandans, funding and assisting stakeholders to carry out projects that improve socioeconomic conditions, create employment and new business development opportunities while leveraging and conserving the country's natural capital.Read More

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COP17 in Durban South Africa Gets Underway

Thomas Schueneman November 28, 2011

The COP 17 climate conference got underway today in Durban South Africa. Reminiscent of the hype surrounding the COP 15 conference in Copenhagen in 2009, many see the Durban conference as the last chance for continuation of the Kyoto Protocol, the first commitment period of which is due to expire next year . As global carbon emissions continue […]Read More

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Harnessing the Wind: The Boy Who Moved Windmills – The

Thomas Schueneman May 7, 2011

Malawi is a landlocked, poor, famine-stricken nation in southern Africa. Young William Kamkwamba and his family struggled for survival every day in a harsh environment. What little education was available in Kamkwamba’s village was soon beyond the reach of his family (costing $80 a year), and William was forced to drop out of high school shortly […]Read More

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Climate Change Accords, Tree Plantations & Human Rights

Andrew Burger May 28, 2009

With organizations and representatives around the world gearing up for key international climate change negotiations in Copenhagen this December, the experience of industrial tree farming in South Africa highlights the perils and pitfalls associated with hammering out a more comprehensive, multidisciplinary and integrated accord.Read More

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Global Warming and the Spread of Disease

Angelique van Engelen May 7, 2009

Westerners instinctively think that the worst effect of global warming is the melting ice cap of the North Pole. We tend to reserve the other effects of global warming for developing nations. But now that politicians also have woken up to the fact that we’re already halfway down the path toward causing a 2 degree […]Read More

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Global Warming And The World Food Supply

Angelique van Engelen January 28, 2009

The potential consequences of global warming on life as we now know it are many, but scientists studying agriculture in particular are among those expressing some of the greatest concern for what lay in store in a warming world. New research predicts that, due to rising global average temperatures, droughts and crop failures will become […]Read More

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African Cities’ Ecological Footprint Feared Far Worse Than Measured Thus

Angelique van Engelen December 15, 2008

A new study reveals that the carbon footprints for African cities are rapidly deteriorating because their population is growing faster than cities elsewhere in the world. Yet the ecological impact of this development is almost completely ignored because it’s hardly being documented, according to the study’s author, Joy Clancy, a Dutch scientist. “One of the […]Read More