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Africa - Triple Threat Looms Over Continent's Rural Poor, Warns UN Agency Chief (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
UN News Service (New York) 15 November 2007 Posted to the web 16 November 2007 http://allafrica.com/stories/200711160005.html  Dakar Africa's rural poor are facing a "perfect storm" of rising food prices, climate change and population ...
Other labels: change, climate, africa
Climate change to take heavy toll on Bangladesh, U.N. (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
http://www.enn.com/topstories/article/26032 From: Reuters Published November 28, 2007 08:00 AM By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) Disasterprone Bangladesh is among the countries most vulnerable to climate change, which could worsen water scarcity ...
Other labels: security, health, bangladesh, population, climate, vulnerability, water
Global poverty to halve by 2015, Africa seen lagging (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
From: Reuters Published April 9, 2008 07:54 AM http://www.enn.com/topstories/article/34347  By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) The world is on course to halve extreme poverty by 2015, but Africa will fall far short of the U.N.'s Millennium ...
Other labels: water, fisheries, blog, forests, environment, mdg
Indonesia at risk Climate change threatens people and nature (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
http://www.enn.com/topstories/article/26050 Published November 28, 2007 09:15 AM Jakarta, Indonesia The devastating impact of global warming is already evident in Indonesia and will likely worsen due to further humaninduced climate change, warns WWF. The review ...
Other labels: vulnerability, food, water, indonesia, climate, security, population, biodiversity
Mexico Calls U.S. Border Fence Severe Threat to Environment (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
nbsp; http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2007/11/15/AR2007111502 272.html  By Manuel RoigFranzia Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, November 16, 2007; Page A24\\ MEXICO CITY, Nov. 15 \\ Plans to extend the U.S. fence along the Mexican border ...
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Minorities The Forgotten Victims Of Climate Change (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/47486/story.htm UK: March 13, 2008 \\ \\ {}LONDON Minorities and indigenous people frequently bear the brunt of the ravages of climate change but also often come last on the aid list because they are on the margins of society, a report said ...
Other labels: aid, blog, disaster, distribution, intervention, climate
New ILRI Report - Mapping Climate Vulnerability in Sub-Saharan Africa (WDC)
Date: May 2006 The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has published Mapping Climate Vulnerability and Poverty in Africa, to identify areas of subSaharan Africa where current and projected impacts of climate variability and climate change are likely to be significant, poverty ...
Poverty Mapping Conference Sponsored by World Bank PRMPR (WDC)
Date: May 11, 2006 The Poverty Reduction Group (PRMPR) at the World Bank organized a conference on May 11, 2006 focusing on the effective use of Small Area Estimation (SAE) poverty maps in policy making. The goal of the conference was to present a range ...
U.N. report, Poor hit hardest by climate change (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
11/27/2007 Sahara News See full summary and report Publications and Lit. Review International The United Nations Development Program's new "Human Development Report" warned that the "polluter pays" principle applies on a global scale. It stated that wealthy industrialized nations ...
Other labels: development, climate, undp
Where the Poor Are - An Atlas of Poverty Shows Recent Advances in Mapping Poverty (WDC)
Date: September 28, 2006 Where the Poor Are: An Atlas of Poverty has been published by CIESIN, in collaboration with the World Bank. It features 21 fullpage poverty maps, depicting vital development indicators at unprecedented levels of spatial detail, gathered ...