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How Africa can solve its food crisis by growing more crops sustainably \| Camilla Toulmin	18.4.2013	Guardian: Science
Does sustainable intensification mean large-scale, industrial agriculture, or can it build on the traditional methods of many African farmers? This week in Dublin , world leaders, policymakers and civil society representatives met to discuss the urgent and interrelated issues of hunger, nutrition and climate justice that are faced by the poorest people and nations. In parallel, the global community is already discussing the goals and metrics that should shape sustainable development once the millennium development goals expire in 2015. It is time to place sustainable intensification at the heart of African agriculture, and ensure that development goals deliver on the agenda opened in Dublin. Sustainable intensification involves producing more crops, better nutrition and higher rural incomes from the same set of inputs – such as land, water, credit and knowledge – while reducing environmental impacts on a sustained basis. Sub-Saharan Africa faces specific and complex challenges. The ...
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Ireland's Michael Higgins calls for land deal rules to tackle hunger	15.4.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
In a hard-hitting speech, Ireland's president calls for international framework to regulate land acquisitions in developing countries Ireland's president has called for a strong regulatory framework to cover land deals, the transfer of water and speculation on food commodities to address global hunger. In a hard-hitting speech at an international conference in Dublin, Ireland, on hunger, nutrition and climate justice, Michael Higgins said global hunger represents the "grossest of human rights violations, and the greatest ethical challenge facing the global community". Higgins expressed support for international regulation of land acquisitions in developing countries by rich investors. "What is required is a robust regulatory framework which protects our fragile and threatened environment and which respects the right of small landholders to remain on their land and retain access to water sources ," he told the conference co-hosted by the Irish government and the Mary Robinson Foundation . ...
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Climate justice and hunger top agenda for Dublin summit	15.4.2013	Guardian: Environment
Famine, drought and food security will dominate the agenda of a climate change summit hosted by the Irish government Recent reports from China and the USA indicate the production of staple foods including rice, wheat and soya are likely to be hit in the coming decades due to increasing incidences of extreme weather. Experts warn that as the world's population and temperatures rise, so added stress will be placed on regions such as the Lower Mekong Basin , which millions rely on for their supply of rice. Speaking ahead of the Hunger, Nutrition and Climate Justice conference organised by the Mary Robinson Foundation, Frank Rijsberman from the CGIAR crop research centre warned the issue urgently needed to be addressed by governments. "This meeting is an opportunity to put food security through climate smart agriculture at the top of the political agenda," he said. "And while doing so, let's make sure our research agendas continue the G8's commitment to the world's poor, by focusing on ...
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Climate kills	13.4.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
Published Apr 13, 2013 01:01AM MDT I dreamed Salt Lake’s federal building was closed for a day due to a mass killing — the slow violence of climate change. While not as sensational as the shootings in Newtown, Conn., climate change produces more visceral deaths: Climate change kills 4.5 million people a year, and developing countries are disproportionately affected. Climate change is not a future problem; it’s a present-day global justice war. This war is only beginning to raise alarm in more developed countries, due to storms l... ...
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Letter: ‘Climate Justice’	6.4.2013	NY Times: Editorials
The founding president of a women’s peace group responds to a column by Gail Collins.
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Prince Charles: 'I admired and loved Wangari Maathai' \| John Vidal	28.3.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
The global green and good flocked to Kew Gardens to remember Maathai at Kew Gardens, and discuss her legacy They all held their breath: the first Muslim woman Nobel peace prize winner, the daughter of the first African woman winner, the first woman president of Ireland, Prince Charles, ambassadors, peers, the leaders of many of the world's environment and human rights groups and more than 100 other guests. Then 20ft above the global green and good flew a lone pigeon, which had somehow got into the great Orangery of Kew Gardens. First it landed on ledges, then it swooped and flapped right in front of the speakers. No one dared say anything but there was probably just one thought on everyone's mind. Would it …? It fell to Shirin Edabi , the exiled Iranian Nobel peace prize winner and human rights activist, to break the tension, interrupt her speech and make the link between the bird, peace and the environment. "Perhaps the bird is telling us to respect the environment and think about what we ...
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For Ireland's First Female President, 'Everybody Matters'	3.3.2013	NPR: All Things Considered
In her memoir, Mary Robinson speaks of her experience advocating for social causes and her personal convictions after growing up in a deeply Catholic family.
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No Dash for Gas – the new, chimney-climbing face of climate direct action	5.2.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Protesters at West Burton power station in November were fighting to cut emissions – and raise morale after police infiltration of the green protest movement Last November, members of the newly formed direct action group No Dash For Gas were feeling pretty good. They had just completed a week-long occupation of West Burton power station in Nottinghamshire , forced French owners EDF to switch the power off and prevented the emission of 19,117 tonnes of carbon dioxide. In a cafe in London where she met me after work a couple of days after climbing down the 91m concrete chimney where activists had camped for a week, Ewa Jasiewicz said the group felt "really stoked and happy, and excited about a resurgent climate justice, commons-focused movement". Jasiewicz says staff at Newark police station told her and Hannah Lewis, the last two activists to hand themselves in: "You're tough ladies, we couldn't have done that." I couldn't interview Jasiewicz and Lewis together, or meet any of the other 19 ...
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Faith in action: Aquinas Lecture, interfaith events and more	1.2.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
the Salt Lake Tribune Published Jan 31, 2013 03:01PM MDT Folk Songs for Climate Justice CD Peaceful Uprising will hold a benefit concert to help launch its new Earth Day CD, “Folk Songs for Climate Justice.” When • Saturday, Feb. 2, 7 p.m. Where • Holladay United Church of Christ, 2631 E. Murray Holladay Road, Salt Lake City Tickets • Suggested $10 donation at the door Aquinas Lecture — Pamela Atkinson The St. Catherine of Siena Newman Center near the University of Utah will present Pamela Atkinson, an advocate for the homeless, health... ...
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Climate Justice Statement of Solidarity with Idle No More	30.1.2013	Grassroots International
January 28, 2013 was marked around the world as an International Day of Solidarity with Idle No More , a movement sparked in November 2012 by First Nations women in Canada, in resistance to legislative threats to indigenous sovereignty. One particular piece of legislation which Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is promoting, Bill C-45, would nullify provisions of provisions of the Navigable Waters Protection Act which since 1882 has mandated consultation and approval by First Nations for projects that could affect waterways on indigenous territories. read ...
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Climate activists march outside UN talks in Qatar	1.12.2012	Seattle Times: Business & Technology
A few hundred people marched in a peaceful demonstration Saturday for "climate justice" in Doha, where negotiators from nearly 200 countries are debating about how to slow global warming and help protect the most vulnerable countries from rising seas and other impacts of climate change.
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Climate activists march outside UN talks in Qatar	1.12.2012	Hindu: Home
A few hundred people marched in a peaceful demonstration on Saturday for “climate justice” in Doha, where negotiators from nearly 200 countries are debating about how to slow global warming and he...
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Climate activists march outside UN talks in Qatar	1.12.2012	Seattle Times: Top stories
A few hundred people have marched in a peaceful demonstration for "climate justice" in Doha, where negotiators from nearly 200 countries are debating about how to slow the onset of global warming and help protect the most vulnerable countries from rising seas and other impacts of climate change.
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Climate activists march outside UN talks in Qatar	1.12.2012	Boston Globe: Business
Climate activists march outside UN talks in Qatar
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Activist Communique: A Fast and Vigil for Climate Justice September 21 - October 2	21.9.2012	rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
Activist Communique: A Fast and Vigil for Climate Justice September 21 - October 2, 2012 The Deets: Starts Friday September 21, 2012 Canadian Parliament Ottawa, ON The Call Out: Hungry for Climate Leadership will hold a fast and vigil for twelve days on Parliament Hill. Our purpose is to demand that the Canadian government address climate change, the greatest threat to our children. read more
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The environment, equality and the permanent election campaign	20.9.2012	rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
In his response to a question from Opposition leader Thomas Mulcair on Tuesday, the prime minister said that increasing the numbers of temporary foreign workers is part of his government's job creation strategy. Ironically, that came on the same day as the independent Metcalf Foundation issued a report noting that Canada now brings in more temporary workers than economic class immigrants. The report warned of the grave consequences of creating a large class of "guest workers" with virtually no rights in Canada. read ...
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Behind the scenes of Greenpeace's Arctic oil protest - video	14.9.2012	The Guardian -- World Latest
Documentary filmmaker Antony Butts joins activists onboard the Arctic Sunrise as Greenpeace plans and executes its protest at Gazprom's Prirazlomnoye oil field
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Climate protesters build ice pyramid at Shell HQ - video	11.9.2012	The Guardian -- World Latest
Activists from the Climate Justice Collective build a wall of ice outside the Shell building in London in protest at exploratory oil drilling off the coast of Alaska
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Climate activists target Shell with ice protest over Arctic drilling	11.9.2012	The Guardian -- World Latest
Climate Justice Collective builds a pyramid of ice at Shell's London HQ and demands an end to Alaska oil exploration Climate activists protesting at Shell's drilling in the Arctic blockaded an entrance to the company's London headquarters on Tuesday morning by building a pyramid of ice blocks. The 15 activists, part of a group called the Climate Justice Collective , were protesting about Shell's exploratory oil expedition off the coast of Alaska that began this week but was halted on Monday after sea ice was seen drifting towards the company's drilling vessel. Lucy, who took part in the protest but did not want to give her full name, said: "Something needs to be done right now. Shell petroleum are responsible for drilling in the Arctic sea. They are drilling in a new area. This must stop, Shell must be held to account. This is an unprecedented disaster we are trying to minimise." Another protester said: "People from different backgrounds have got together. Sea ice is melting and ...
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Scotland announces 'climate justice' fund for world's poorest	6.6.2012	The Guardian -- World Latest
The scheme will focus on helping people in Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia cope with the effects of climate change The Scottish government has unveiled a £3m initiative to help people in the world's poorest countries adapt to the impact of climate change. The climate justice fund, launched in Edinburgh on Thursday , will disburse the money in equal instalments over the next three years to support water projects in Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia. The scheme, which provides new funding rather than drawing on Scotland's existing overseas aid budget, was announced by Alex Salmond, the Scottish first minister, and the former Republic of Ireland president Mary Robinson. Both called on rich nations to reduce carbon emissions, arguing that the developing world bears the brunt of flooding, drought and other natural disasters, despite doing little to cause such events. "The huge injustice of climate change is that it is those who have done the least to cause the problem – the most ...
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