The World from Berlin: Merkel's Backpedaling on Aid Is 'Cynicism, Pure and Simple' - SP... - 0 views
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"The international community gave itself real goals 10 years ago," the German chancellor said. "Unfortunately today, we have to recognize that we are probably not able to reach these objectives."
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"Development aid cannot continue indefinitely," she said. "The task therefore is to use limited resources as effectively as possible. This can only work through good governance which taps that country's potential."
FN-topmøde ender resultatløst | information.dk - 0 views
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Jeg er bange for, at disse topmøder ender med at blive en udsigtsløs øvelse i at holde taler og afgive forsigtigt formulerede løfter, uden at de bliver fulgt op af meningsfuld handling,« skrev Annan
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»Der er kun fem år tilbage, inden de otte mål, FN satte sig i 2000, skal være opfyldt. Trods de manglende fremskridt fortsætter lederne af de rige lande med at holde inspirerende taler og love bistandspenge, som aldrig bliver udbetalt. Hvad vi hører fra stats- og regeringschefer, er mest tom retorik,« sagde Deborah Doane, direktør for den britiske World Development Movement.
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»Vi har af erfaring lært at være skeptiske over for store erklæringer under topmøder. Vi vil gerne vide, hvor mange af de 40 mia. dollar er nye penge fremfor at være blevet rykket rundt på nationale budgetter,« sagde Emma Seery, talskvinde for den britiske ngo-gruppe Oxfam. »Hvis vi skal være seriøse, vil det koste 88 mia. dollar at få de to mål i hus inden 2015. Intet mindre vil slå til.«
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Reuters AlertNet - Is climate change the missing link in the millennium goals? - 0 views
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Sifting through the 31-page draft declaration on the MDGs expected to be formally adopted at the Sept. 20-22 meeting of world leaders, there is surprisingly little reference to the growing importance of environmental concerns.
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what is missing is a bold statement about the worsening effects of climate change on poor people and a genuine sense of how important it is to help them adapt to more extreme weather and rising seas if advances on the MDGs are to be safeguarded
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the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) plans to issue a brief for policy makers that will include concrete examples of how investing in clean energy, sustainable transport, forests and environmentally-friendly forms of agriculture can at the same time improve health, provide safe drinking water and combat hunger and disease.
Marianne Williamson: Millennium Development Goals: Love in Action - 0 views
The Associated Press: Memo portrays UN chief wanting control, secrecy - 0 views
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secretiveness serves us poorly
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your style comes out as one of command and control
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The U.N.'s ability to police itself for major fraud and corruption since the disbanding of an elite, anti-corruption U.N. Procurement Task Force in 2008 is of concern to the United States and other major donors, who worry about the billions of dollars they contribute to improve the lives of the world's poorest people.
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allAfrica.com: Africa: Guebuza Warns on Climate Change - 0 views
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some African countries may fail to attain the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) as a consequence of climate change
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"In the first MDG we commit ourselves to eradicating hunger and extreme poverty", he said, questioning if these objectives can be met in a scenario where floods and droughts are becoming more intense and more frequent than before, affecting food and nutritional security.
End of Alaotra grebe is further evidence of Sixth Great Extinction - Nature, Environmen... - 0 views
YouTube - Global Biodiversity Outlook 3 - 0 views
Biodiversity loss brings ecological systems closer to a tipping point, Ban says - 0 views
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Some 70 per cent of the world's poor live in rural areas, and depend directly on biodiversity for their daily sustenance and income
Obama's engagement policy: good for the U.N., bad for Obama? | The Cable - 0 views
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60 percent of those surveyed had a positive view of the United Nations, that's up ten points from data only 10 months ago
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Thirty percent said they viewed the U.N. unfavorably
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"The U.N.'s image has been impacted by a very positive news environment around the organization providing humanitarian relief during the natural disasters that have happened recently around the world,"
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BIODIVERSITY: We Can Live Without Oil, But Not Without Flora and Fauna - IPS ipsnews.net - 0 views
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"you can clearly see the outlines of what could be the sixth great extinction event of all life on Earth," said Thomas Lovejoy
allAfrica.com: African Finance Ministers Dismiss Development Declarations - 0 views
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The budgetary targets are embedded in a set of important declarations and decisions adopted by Africa's 53 Presidents as far back as 2000.
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these declarations and decisions commit governments to devote up to 20 per cent of their budgets to education, 15 per cent to health, 10 per cent to agriculture and 0.5 per cent to water and sanitation
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the positions taken by the finance ministers completely undermine African governments attempts to hold their development partners accountable for the promises reached
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Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People -- Godfray et al. 327 (5967): ... - 0 views
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more than one in seven people today still do not have access to sufficient protein and energy from their diet, and even more suffer from some form of micronutrient malnourishment
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Increases in production will have an important part to play, but they will be constrained as never before by the finite resources provided by Earth’s lands, oceans, and atmosphere
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a period of rising and more volatile food prices driven primarily by increased demand from rapidly developing countries, as well as by competition for resources from first-generation biofuels production
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