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All About, Water and Health (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative) From Sahra News  12/18/2007 Summary by Louise Shaler Source: CNN.com by Rachel Oliver\\ International According to the World Bank, 88% of all diseases, averaged worldwide, are caused by unsafe drinking water and inadequate sanitation. Dirty water is to blame for 4 ... Other labels: blog, disease, pollution, worldbank, water, health, wateraid

Ban Ki-moon warns that water shortages are increasingly driving conflicts (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative) http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=25527&Cr=water&Cr1= 6 February 2008 Many of today's conflicts around the world are being fuelled or exacerbated by water shortages and climate change is only making the situation worse, SecretaryGeneral ... Other labels: unitednations, blog, conflict, security, food, africa, mdg, water

CIESIN Attends UN Climate Change Expert Meeting (Newsroom) March 18, 2008 CIESIN senior staff associate Alex de Sherbinin participated in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Expert Group Meeting on socioeconomic information under the Nairobi Work Programme on Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate ... Other labels: climate, socioeconomics, ciesin

Do more, invest more in mitigating impact of natural disasters, Ban tells world (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative) http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/VDUX7K9SKS?OpenDocument&RSS20= 18P Much more needs to be done and much greater funding made available to mitigate the devastating toll of natural disasters in an age when climate change threatens to increase both ... Other labels: disaster, blog, mitigation, climate

Early Recovery to mitigate emergency response, MADAGASCAR (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative) http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79331 JOHANNESBURG, 18 July 2008 (IRIN) In Madagascar, where community resilience and livelihoods are continuously eroded by cyclones, floods and drought, the gap between emergency humanitarian action and development assistance can become too ... Other labels: disaster, blog, early, prevention, climate, madagasacar, recovery

Event,The United Nations and Climate Change, New Divisions (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative) SIPA: The United Nations and Climate Change: New Divisions Date: March 04, 2008 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm EST Location: Columbia University Morningside Campus International Affairs Building, Room 1501 420 ... Other labels: sipa, climate, events

Forests Vanishing Swiftly in Haiti (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative) Jonathan M. Katz Associated Press Sunday, February 17, 2008; Page A22\\ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2008/02/16/AR2008021602 511.html  GRAND COLLINE, Haiti, Feb. 16 \\ Far from the spreading slums of the Haitian capital, past barren ... Other labels: blog, hati, forests, security, stability, governance

NYTimes Editorial, Gloom, but Not Doom (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative) EDITORIAL Gloom, but Not Doom http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/opinion/04thu1.html?ref=opinion There's been a fair amount of handwringing since the nation's intelligence community surveyed the world of 2025: America losing dominance; China and India rising; fierce competition for water, food and energy ... Other labels: blog, security, nic

Refugees Join List of Climate-Change Issues (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative) http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/world/29refugees.html?r=1 By NEIL MacFARQUHAR Published: May 28, 2009 UNITED NATIONS — With their boundless vistas of turquoise water framed by swaying coconut palms, the Carteret Islands northeast of the Papua New Guinea mainland might seem ... Other labels: blog, climate, security

UN chief calls for review of biofuels policy (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative) Julian Borger, diplomatic editor The Guardian,Saturday April 5 2008 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/05/biofuels.food The UN secretarygeneral, Ban Kimoon, has called for a comprehensive review of the policy on biofuels as a crisis in global food prices partly caused by the increasing ... Other labels: blog, climate, security, food, biofuels