AIMS (Atlantic, Indian Ocean and South China Sea)
Beth
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25 Jul 2011
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is included in the Comoros Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper and is also institutionalized into the policies of the Ministry of Transport, Posts and Telecommunications and Tourism; Ministry of Health, Solidarity and Gender; Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Industry, Craft and Environment; Ministry of National Education, Research, Arts, Culture, Youth and Sports; and the Ministry of Land-Use Planning, Urban Planning, Housing and Energy. Natural Risk and...
Beth
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25 Jul 2011
In 2002, the Comoros submitted an initial National Communication entitled ‘Convention-cadre des nations-unies sur les changements climatiques: Communication nationale initiale’ to the UNFCCC. This was followed in 2006 by the submission of a National Action Programme of Adaptation to Climate Change (NAPA) to the UNFCCC.
The current and possible impacts of climate change are likely to undermine several decades of efforts made against poverty and economic precariousness, which still...
Beth
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08 Jul 2011
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July 07 2011 -- President James Michel has called on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to take on the responsibility of becoming ‘the guardians of sustainability of our planet’ and to reclaim the concept of sustainability in the modern world order.
“Islands are more vulnerable and more threatened today than they have ever been in their history. We all know that for islands, the spectre of climate change is existential. Even those that will not be completely engulfed by...
Beth
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30 Jun 2011
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http://www.nytimes....
By SONIA KOLESNIKOV-JESSOP
Published: March 21, 2011
SINGAPORE — In the aftermath of earthquakes and tsunamis, one of the most desperate needs for survivors is often to have access to clean drinking water.
In the future, help may be on the way from Singapore.
Desalination plants have long been essential to providing fresh water in places where natural supplies are lacking. Traditionally, two methods have been used to remove salt from water: thermal distillation, in which salt water...
Beth
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30 Jun 2011
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http://www.afrol....
afrol News, 6 April - A high speed ferry between São Tomé and Cape Verde is planned for operations already in June this year, according to an announcement by the Cape Verdean government.
The plans were revealed during the three-day visit of Cape Verdean Prime Minister José Maria Neves to São Tomé and Príncipe today. PM Neves headed a larger delegation of Cape Verdean ministers and businessmen to the fellow Portuguese speaking archipelago, agreeing to...
