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Forced Migration Online
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund
In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Human Migration and Displacement
This report explores how environmental shocks and stresses, especially those related to climate change, can push people to leave their homes in search of ‘greener pastures’… or just to survive. This report offers: empirical […]

Munk Debates 2009: Climate change is mankind’s defining crisis, and demands a commensurate response.
December 2009 Munk Debate on Climate Change “Be it resolved: climate change is mankind’s defining crisis, and demands a commensurate response.” George Monbiot and Elizabeth May took the affirmative; Bjørn Lomborg and Lord Nigel Lawson the negative. [Watch the debate]
Lomborg […]

Canada 2010: G8 & G20 ; At Issue panel on The National (CBC)
No politics please, we’re nation-building: PM
WHITEHORSE - He stood astride an ice flow, F-18 jets roaring overhead for a perfect photograph, reannounced feel-good government initiatives and gave a rousing speech to party faithful warning of the evils of an opposition coalition.
But Prime Minister […]

Lessons from the Green Revolution ; Green Revolution: Curse or Blessing? ; Agriculture & Food ; (International Food Policy Research Institute) Agriculture and climate change: An agenda for negotiation in Copenhagen ; Global Treaty on Climate Change ; Climate Change (that is, Global Warming) and Sub-Saharan Africa (2005)

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The end of suburbia
UN Habitat
Sustainable Cities
Habitat for humanity
Urban World: Innovative cities: Why learning is the key to urban development
The Urban Vision profiles best practices and the finest thinking in the key components of city building –Urban Design, Architecture, infrastructure planning, policy strategies ….

 
China and India: A tale of 2 megacity styles
China […]

New York Times Topics: Australia ; BBC Australia country profile
Australia’s “kingmakers” meet to discuss next government
(Reuters) - A handful of independent and Green MPs who will decide the make-up of the next Australian government hold their first meeting on Tuesday to discuss whether to support the Labour Party or conservative opposition’s bid for power.
Latest counting […]

Green Facts Scientific Facts on Desertification
FAO Desertification website
Did You Know? Deserts and desertification
UNEP launches initiative to address desertification
Desertification threatens one-third of the planet and the livelihoods of more than a billion people, the United Nations Environment Program officials said Monday as the agency launched a new initiative. The decade-long effort will seek to support […]

The Prince’s Rainforest Project ; Rainforests: The Burning Issue – online interactive booklet;
Chinese scientists predicted dire results from deforestation
In a study published 13 years ago, two Chinese scientists predicted that aggressive deforestation in Gansu province would lead to landslides due to soil erosion. Government-run timber companies cut more than 300,000 acres […]

Anthony Germain: China in Africa
Investments come without demands for democracy
(CBC) Across Africa, China is pursuing a natural resources bonanza. In Angola it’s oil; in Mozambique, it’s timber and in Zambia, it’s copper. This grand enterprise has earned the world’s greatest emerging economy both friends and critics.
The Chinese in recent years have lent Africans billions of […]

Beyond Copenhagen - Why Less May Be More in Global Climate Talks
(Foreign Affairs) For many climate-change experts, the Copenhagen summit was something of a failure. In order to make real progress on pressing climate issues, policymakers must give up on a binding deal and begin to look outside the UN process.
UN climate chief: Developed […]