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Disease threatens aquaculture in developing world - SciDev.Net - 0 views

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disease aquaculture fish food security

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  • Aquaculture is the fastest growing food sector in the world, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, with 90 per cent of production coming from the developing world, where it makes a significant contribution to many nations' economies.
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OECD launches 'green economy' consultation with developing countries - SciDev.Net - 0 views

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OECD Rio+20 green economy developing countries subsidies

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  • Turok pointed out that the mechanisms proposed for achieving the green economy — including markets and pricing, government subsidies and regulation, government investment, capacity building, and stakeholder partnerships and collaboration — contradicted each other.
  • "If African countries don't [value and deploy their natural resources] they will have more foreigners grabbing their assets."
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  • Both Urama and Tomasi said that the green economy's nebulous definition could be advantageous, because it would enable nations to define it for themselves and to plan how to achieve it according to their specific circumstances.
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Tackling the real crisis in science communication - SciDev.Net - 0 views

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RIO+20

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    The shortage of credible and diverse voices in science undermines the capacity of journalists to respond to development challenges.
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Rio+20 Negotiators Report 'Progress,' NGOs Call It 'Weak' - 0 views

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Rio+20 oceans marine biodiversity food water energy fisheries civil society UNEP capitalism women youth

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  • More than 55,000 people from around the world and all walks of life are attending the summit. Some 130 world leaders are expected to participate in three-days of high-level talks opening June 20 that will result in a outcome document on sustainable development.
  • Rio+20 marks the 20th anniversary of the original UN Earth Summit in Rio, where countries agreed to a roadmap for environmental protection, economic growth, and social equity known as Agenda 21.
  • "The planet is running out of time - yet leaders are answering with weak words that don't even come close to the kind of commitments we need to ensure people everywhere have access to clean water, food, and energy," said Jim Leape, director general of WWF International.
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  • "the inter-linkages between food, water and energy,"
  • ocean protection
  • "Organizations are working to have strong text adopted on sustainable fisheries and small islands developing states, on really tackling illegal fishing, and a strong text on fisheries subsidies," she told reporters last week. "There's a good chance on there will be something on a high seas legal framework to protect areas of the high seas that are beyond national jurisdictions," she said. "Only the United States and Russia are opposed."
  • On Saturday, more than 80 countries, civil society groups, private companies and international organizations declared their support for the new Global Partnership for Oceans
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  • While fostering a global green economy has been a key goal of the UN Environment Programme for Rio+20, thousands of women this morning held a march in protest of the green economy, saying it does not go far enough and relies on the exploitation of women.
  • capitalism that values only what can be bought and sold.
  • youth delegates appeared with duct tape over their mouths to dramatize their request that the United Nations establish a high commissioner for future generations.
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Earth Summit: Can Rio +20 solve world's environmental problems? - CNN.com - 0 views

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Rio+20 carbon Obama water developing countries development

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  • Reports quoting documents leaked ahead of the summit suggest that countries will be asked to sign up to 10 separate goals. These could include a deal on protecting oceans, the establishment of a powerful global agency for the environment, financial support to encourage sustainability for poorer nations and the appointment of an ecological high commissioner.
  • Realistically, the best that can be hoped for is that Rio +20 will be the start of a process that leads to some or all of these goals being met. Few expect hard and fast policies to be put in place after three days of discussion and the likelihood is that participants will sign up to a document committing themselves to further action in the future.
  • There are also numerous sticking points. Wealthy and poorer nations are likely to argue over sharing the burden of cutting carbon emissions. There have been concerns over the exclusion of references to basic human rights, such as access to water. Environmental monitoring methods are also expected to spark dissent.
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New Amazon highway 'would put Peru's last lost tribes at risk' | World news | The Observer - 0 views

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  • Piovesan has been scathing about his opponents, particularly international organisations such as Survival International and the WWF, which he accuses of profiting from keeping the tribes in isolation.
  • "These international organisations gain money because they present themselves as the saviours of the Indians, this is what it's all about. So if the Indians evolve, they [the NGOs] lose their business," he said on a recent radio show. Last week he told the Observer that the reality was that the indigenous people were being kept in a condition of "captivity and slavery incompatible with the true ecology".
  • Rebecca Spooner, Survival International's Peru campaigner, said building the road would devastate entire peoples: "These uncontacted tribes live either side of the Peru-Brazil border. Building this road through their forest tramples over their rights, imposing so-called 'development' upon them. Congress has the opportunity to step in before it's too late. This road should not be approved."
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