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Johannesburg, 29 August, 2002.  

 

 

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Full Steam Ahead!

Negotiations Move Forward, But Down Which Road?

Some 99 percent of the disagreements on the issues of finance, trade and globalisation have been resolved, says Ambassador John Ashe of Antigua and Barbuda.

Ashe, who is the facilitator of the Contact Group dealing with those issues for the draft plan of action, told reporters yesterday that the remaining differences of opinion were down to only one percent. They were mostly relating to ''clauses and words,'' he said.

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Children: What about Us?

There was solidarity. There was strength. There was hope. But overshadowing everything else, there was a note of urgent pleading in the young voices. They pleaded with the world leaders that they work together with them towards creating a safe, peaceful, harmonious and just world, a world that will nurture and be nurtured by generations to come.

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It’s Time for Energy

With 1.6 billion people lacking access to electricity and 2.4 billion relying on primitive biomass for cooking and heating, phenomenal investment is needed to supply power and even more so to make it sustainable to additional users, according to energy experts at the U.N. World Summit on Sustainable Development.


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Brazil -The NGO Flavour of the Week

Brazil has become the buzzword among environmentalists lobbying to secure a global commitment on renewable energy sources at the WSSD. By yesterday, the third day of summit, the South American nation was being praised by activists for forging ahead with its renewable energy initiative.
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It’s All the North’s Fault

Blame it on the North, environmental activists say. Most of the natural and man-made ecological disasters currently plaguing the Earth are a result of their actions, past and present''
There is growing evidence that weather extremes have become more frequent. Floods and droughts intensify. The mean global sea level is rising. Changing climate conditions may turn 150 million people into refugees,'' said a statement released yesterday by the Ecumenical Development and Relief Agencies in collaboration with the World Council of Churches Climate Change Programme.
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What the Indigenous People could Teach the Summit

Marcos Terena

Once again, ten years after the 1992 Rio Summit, the peoples and governments of the world are coming together under the auspices of the United Nations to discuss progress that has been made on the environment and the quality of life.

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Is Poverty Toxic?

Fatima Jibrell of Somalia remembers her pastoralist childhood, when she and her family would make fires and erect temporary fences to keep out marauding leopards and lions. Today, her descendants don't need the fires or the fences because the leopards are all gone, the lions so diminished in number that they do not pose a danger.

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