tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47364217351223803902024-03-22T04:42:30.535+01:00Climate Vulnerability MonitorClimateVMonitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981180394935354609noreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4736421735122380390.post-88899721254805550992012-06-01T10:04:00.000+02:002012-06-01T10:04:01.835+02:00FORCE Blog 4: Co-operative Wind Harvesting in the Netherlands<br />
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Cycling along the country roads of
Flevoland, you can’t help but notice the wind. If one is lucky, it
is behind you, if it isn’t… well, good luck. It is no wonder that
windmills haphazardly dot the landscape. They fit. This is the
Netherlands, a country where wooden windmills have dotted the
landscape for hundreds of years. Now instead of pumping water, modern
windmills are powering thousands of homes.
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Stephan de Clerck and his brother Ralph
live within a few kilometres of each other in Flevoland, and they are
no strangers to the wind. They have been harvesting wind energy for
10 years. In the beginning they were looking for ways to diversify
their farms and incomes. They love how wind energy perfectly
complements their other crops, like potatoes, onions or sugar beets.
Once installed, the windmills turn steadily in the background, while
the day-to-day life of a farmer continues. For them, wind energy is a
valuable crop, and one that gets better the stormier the weather.
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Together, Stephan and Ralph produce
enough wind energy to power 5000 homes. Their energy is sold through
WindUnie, a co-operative that sources and sells wind power to
residents of the Netherlands. Ten years ago, WindUnie was a small
start-up, but through the engagement of landowners like Stephan and
Ralph, this co-operative has grown to be a major player in wind
energy market in the Netherlands. Connecting residential customers
with small scale producers, the WindUnie website intelligently allows
you to explore the suppliers of wind energy, meet their families and
see where your wind is coming from. In the case of Stephan and Ralph,
you find out that they have 3 and 4 kids respectively and love skiing
and walking on their holidays.
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Stephan was very happy with the first
set of windmills, so much so that he wished to build more. But, by
then, the zoning laws had changed and regulations were now requiring
windmills to be built in a line rather then individually. Stephan
realized that he couldn’t do it on his own. So he went knocking on
his neighbours doors and together the 5 of them launched Samen voor
de Wind, (Together for the Wind), a co-operative farm of 7 windmills.</div>
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Samen voor de Wind has substantially
contributed to the financial well-being and health of the families.
All the members have young families and they are naturally happy to
have the extra income. Furthermore, the co-operative has built a
stronger community between the neighbours.</div>
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Stephan believes that for renewable
energy to succeed, we desperately need to level the subsidy playing
field. With the removal of fossil and nuclear fuel subsidies, the
market would take over and clean energy would rise to top.
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“In the future, instead of all of us
being energy users, we will all become energy producers,” says
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This blog post is part 4 of a series of
wind energy stories from photographer Robert van Waarden. Next week
meet Petr Pavek, an influential character in Czech Republic politics
who has retired to his organic farm to live life more simply. </div>
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<br /></div>ClimateVMonitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981180394935354609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4736421735122380390.post-26658603605786809742012-05-28T13:04:00.004+02:002012-05-28T13:04:50.984+02:00FORCE Blog 3: Wind Dreams in Nepal<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Amrit
points it out as we zoom past on his motorbike. If you look closely, past the
Nokia sign, past the other motorbikes, over the jumble of electric wires, and
let your eyes drift upward, you might see it. It is a solution to the energy
problems of Nepal, turning in the wind. Amrit turns a corner, jokes with a
security guard and drives into the grounds of the Kathmandu Engineering
College. A few minutes later we are on the roof, listening to the whirling of
his homemade wind turbine and looking out over this crowded and noisy city
called Kathmandu. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Amrit Singh
Thapa, owner of Eenergys.com, lives and breathes wind energy. When he was still
a student at the Engineering College, he began researching sustainable
technology and felt deeply that his path was entwined with wind energy. He
hasn’t looked back since.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> "</span></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">My life
has been changed drastically since I got involved in wind energy. I don’t have
time to sleep. My experience is very small, but there is no one with my
experience in Nepal. That is the main factor; from the management, technical,
ground, and field level, I have to manage and tackle everything. I am working
as the complete package.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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is in the midst of an energy crisis. The Himalayas provide ample opportunity to
tap hydro resources, but current supply is insufficient for the entire
electrical needs of the city and in winter, when the reservoirs are low or
landslides fill the reservoirs, hydro capacity is compromised. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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summer we have 3 to 4 hours a day of load shedding”, says Amrit, using the
all-too-common term for a government scheduled black-out of city regions. “In
the winter it will be even higher, in 24 hours we will only get 18 hours of
electricity. This is the past record of maybe 4 years.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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dreams of seeing turbines on the hills surrounding the Kathmandu valley one
day. He believes that wind energy is the solution to the energy crisis in
Nepal. His calculations show that it is feasible, and he cites the build time
difference between wind and hydro as an additional plus. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Kathmandu
has a daily demand for 200 Megawatt. Around the Kathmandu Valley we can take 70
to 100 Megawatt from wind energy. </span>In only one year we can make a big
energy project, and you can’t do that with hydro power”, says Amrit.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The only thing holding wind energy back is proof to the
Nepal business, government and people that the technology can work and be
sustained. If Amrit can do that, and he thinks he can, then the money will flow
and the technology will be replicated across the country. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“I think that it only takes one or two years to make a big
windmill project in Nepal. I am quite optimistic. I hope that I can make it,
and I can show that Nepal can also generate wind energy.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As Amrit and I climb down from the roof, his story reminds
me that one person can make a difference. If he has his way, this energetic
young man’s vision and passion for wind could be the difference for Nepal’s
energy problem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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post is part 3 of a series of wind energy stories from photographer Robert van
Waarden. Next week meet the De Clerck family, a farming family in the
Netherlands that enthusiastically co-operatively harvest wind energy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>ClimateVMonitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981180394935354609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4736421735122380390.post-2902248789910558322012-05-25T09:43:00.000+02:002012-05-25T09:43:50.503+02:00Conclusion of Date With History!<iframe _tmplitem="21" width='480' scrolling='no' height='270' src='http://www.citizenglobal.com/embed/submit/77yh0j' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen></iframe>ClimateVMonitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981180394935354609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4736421735122380390.post-9275298236677024332012-05-14T10:03:00.002+02:002012-05-14T10:04:50.731+02:00FORCE Blog series 2: I Love Windpower Brings Energy and Identity to Mali<br />
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I had to sum it up in one word, I would say identity,” says Piet Willem
Chevalier, owner and operator of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.i-love-windpower.com/">I Love Windpower</a></i>. “On my first
trip to Mail, I saw this group of people that were really shy, that didn’t want
to ask questions, they had no confidence. After we made that first turbine, we
threw a party and it was quite amazing to see how this sense of identity grew.”
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day Piet literally drove off the road, transfixed by a set of wind turbines. He
couldn’t have known at that time that this incident would change his life. In a
few years he would be bringing wind power to Mali where the poorest communities
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style","serif";">One
thing led to another and Piet started working as an engineer for Siemens wind.
After about a year he discovered the work of Welsh engineer, Hugh Piggott. Mr.
Piggott is the inventor of an open source, affordable, small-scale wind turbine
design. Piet invited Hugh to come and teach a workshop in the Netherlands. It
took some convincing, but Mr. Piggott finally agreed. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style","serif";">That
workshop taught Piet how to build these turbines, and in doing so it changed
Piet’s life. Piet knew that he needed to take this new skill and technology to
a place where it would be most beneficial and he could pass it on. One of his
best friends was from Mali and he figured that Mali was as good as anywhere
else to get started. He founded </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.i-love-windpower.com/"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style","serif";">I Love Windpower</span></a></span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style","serif";">. Designing a course
that was easy to teach, transcended language barriers and used readily
available materials, Piet flew to Mali. In two weeks, he and a team of 10
people, 5 who couldn’t read or write and 5 who couldn’t speak any French, built
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windmills deliver energy to local homes, but they also had some unexpected
impacts. Two men participating in the workshop were from different tribes that
for the last 20 years had not spoken to each other. During the workshop the two
men became great friends, and now the tribes are talking again. The sense of
identity and ownership derived from this windmill project has been remarkable.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style","serif";">“This
is something that I never realized when starting this. Even if this project is
going to fail completely and they never make a business out of it - which I
still believe is possible and just takes some more time - every investment has
accomplished so much from a social and identity perspective.” </span></div>
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events in Mali have threatened <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I Love
Windpower’s</i> projects – not only because of the military coup and the rebel
unrest, but also due to an impending food crisis. Piet recently wondered
whether his little amount of money would be better used feeding people. After
much debate with his team, they decided to keep the project running. They
thought giving these people something to be proud of, and which one day may
become a financially sustainable business, was deemed equally important.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style","serif";">Piet
is now also working with <a href="http://windempowerment.org/">Wind Empowerment</a>,
a group dedicated to small turbine development across Africa and the globe. He
will be attending Rio+20 and setting up windmills around the conference. Some
of his volunteers have taken the skills gained with Piet even further, and in
one case started the Tanzania branch of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I
Love Windpower. </i></span></div>
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for the Mali project, it is too early to see where it will go, but one thing
remains certain, small-scale windmills are helping build community and identity
while providing much needed electricity to Mali. </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style","serif";">This blog post is part 2 of a
series of wind energy stories from photographer </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://vanwaardenphoto.com/"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style","serif";">Robert
van Waarden</span></a></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style","serif";">. Next week meet Amrit
Singh Thapa, an engineer from Nepal who has a big wind energy vision. </span></i></div>ClimateVMonitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981180394935354609noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4736421735122380390.post-45702340832651378542012-05-11T17:46:00.000+02:002012-05-14T10:05:26.404+02:00Climate Change And Health Adaptation Podcast(To listen online, visit <a href="http://daraint.org/2012/05/11/3513/podcast-climate-change-health-adaptations/">http://daraint.org/2012/05/11/3513/podcast-climate-change-health-adaptations/</a>)
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Adaptation
Performance Review of the Climate Vulnerability Monitor 2010 assesses over 50
key measures that can be taken to reduce dangers and harm to communities and
the planet across the four main impact areas of the Report. Highly
cost-effective actions exist for minimizing nearly every type of impact
assessed in the Climate Vulnerability Monitor. <span class="msoDel"><del cite="mailto:ltabor" datetime="2012-05-11T10:17"></del></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">There are a variety of measures that
can be taken to prevent deaths due to climate change, and many of them are very
affordable. Since outbreaks of disease related to climate change are
concentrated within certain regions, age groups, and socioeconomic groups, good
targeting of these diseases is feasible. Lifesaving measures to address these
health problems are some of the most well-documented and effective measures we
have in fighting the negative effects of climate change. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Many adaptation measures for Health concerns
are highly or very highly effective. Two especially effective adaptation
actions are School health and nutrition programs and basic sanitation
facilities. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">School health and nutrition
programmes rate highly on costeffectiveness, co-benefits, feasibility, and
scalability. This programme is among the least expensive of all health measures
assessed here. Improving child health can also lead to better educational
results. Such programmes can roll out quickly using existing educational
networks and have an especially high impact on the poorest and most
undernourished children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Evidence shows that the number of
children reaching school age (defined as 5 to 14 years of age) is increasing
due to such child survival programs. In Kenya, treatment of Helminth infections
reduced absenteeism by one-fourth, with the youngest children (who typically
suffer the most ill health) showing the largest gains. The evidence base for school
health and nutrition programmes is high -- we have several well-documented
examples from various geographical regions. However, not all types of
intervention are relevant to all situations or locations, so it is essential to
assess the needs of a community prior to each implementation.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Basic sanitation facilities
programmes rate highly on costeffectiveness, co-benefits, and scalability. At a
construction cost of $60 per capita for basic sanitation facilities and a
lifetime of 5+ years for a latrine, this programme remains among the least
expensive of the health measures assessed here. Lower-cost models are possible
in areas that lack infrastructure or where more complex sanitation systems are
not feasible, making such a programme highly cost-effective even where
construction costs are high. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The programme is beneficial to all
groups in a community lacking sanitation and reduces the spread of diarrhea
while also producing socio-economic and cultural benefits. However, it is
unclear whether we can attribute the positive effects to the installation of
latrines alone, since benefits have only been measured in combination with
improved hand-washing habits. Benefits are highest where a clean water supply
is also available. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The World Health Organization,
UNICEF, and the World Bank have already developed technical specifications and
guidelines for low-cost sanitation projects, and many well-documented case
examples exist. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Other health
adaptation measures analyzed in 2010 included breastfeeding, oral rehydration
therapy and zinc supplementation, immunization programmes, improved water
supply infrastructure, insecticide-treated bed nets, indoor residual spraying,
and excessive heat event notification and response programmes. To learn more
about them and their effectiveness, read the Health Impact section in the Adaptations
Performance Review within the Climate Vulnerability Monitor.</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4736421735122380390" name="_GoBack"></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>ClimateVMonitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981180394935354609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4736421735122380390.post-87843562333426697832012-05-09T16:14:00.000+02:002012-05-14T10:05:50.713+02:00Introducing the Date With History Finalists(from tcktcktck.org)<br />
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After weeks of intense online voting and nearly 200 video submissions from around the world, we are delighted to share the finalists for the <a href="http://datewithhistory.com/">Date with History</a> competition.<br />
On behalf of the TckTckTck team and our partners <a href="http://www.climatenexus.org/">Climate Nexus</a>, <a href="http://www.race2rio.org/">NRDC</a> and the Rockefeller Foundation, we’d like to thank everyone who submitted an entry, voted for their favourite or helped us share this competition to their friends, family and networks. Your enthusiasm and vision and inspired so many people and we look forward to finding ways to share your messages in the coming weeks.<br />
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I was so impressed by the number and quality of the video speeches – I wish we could have brought all of these kids to Rio. They have some powerful messages for the people who hold our future in their hands. – <i>Kelly Rigg, Executive Director, TckTckTck Campaign</i></div>
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From this point on, the decision on who wins a Date with History and attends the Rio+20 Earth Summit in Brazil this June <a href="http://datewithhistory.com/jury">lies with our Jury</a>. We look forward to announcing their eventual selection in a few weeks, but in the meantime, please take a few minutes to get to know our finalists and the future they’d like to see.<br />
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(see the finalists and explore tcktcktck at <a href="http://tcktcktck.org/2012/05/introducing-the-date-with-history-finalists/#%21/home">http://tcktcktck.org/2012/05/introducing-the-date-with-history-finalists/#!/home</a>)ClimateVMonitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981180394935354609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4736421735122380390.post-27620026686707174672012-05-07T12:49:00.000+02:002012-05-14T10:06:29.067+02:00FORCE blog series 1: Orthodox Community Embraces Renewable Energy in the Czech Republic<div class="page-outer" style="height: 128.6em; width: 90.94em;">
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was given to us by God to survive,’ says Roman Juriga, director of the
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</div>ClimateVMonitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981180394935354609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4736421735122380390.post-33304834175615938962012-04-23T12:01:00.000+02:002012-04-23T12:01:34.349+02:00From the Request for ProposalsRequest for proposals<br />
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Issue Date: 19th April<br />
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Closing Date: 11th May (close of business, Central European Time)<br />
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Media outreach for the Climate Vulnerability Monitor 2012 report<br />
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1. About DARA and the Climate Vulnerability Monitor<br />
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DARA is an independent organisation committed to improving the quality and effectiveness of aid for<br />
vulnerable populations suffering from conflict, disasters and climate change.<br />
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In conjunction with the Climate Vulnerable Forum, a group of countries heavily affected by climate change<br />
adamant to amplify political pressure for a resolution to the climate crisis, in 2010 DARA developed the<br />
Climate Vulnerability Monitor. The Climate Vulnerability Monitor is a new tool built to assess the vulnerability<br />
of our world to the many effects of climate change as communities are facing them. It is developed with<br />
critical input from leading international thinkers and aims to help us keep watch on current and expected<br />
impacts caused by climate change and to promote understanding and debate around its growing dangers<br />
and how to deal with them.<br />
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2. Background<br />
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DARA is working towards the 2012 edition of the Climate Vulnerability Monitor (CVM), to be published in<br />
June 2012, a refined and expanded version of the volume published in December 2010. The report will be<br />
launched in Rio +20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. Possible presentation dates<br />
range from 16th to 19th June 2012.<br />
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For this assignment, DARA is seeking a PR agency to plan and produce a high-quality launch event in Rio<br />
+20 for ministers and senior global policy-makers as well as maximize opportunities to ensure positive<br />
and widespread coverage in the run-up to, during and after the event in all types of media (tv<br />
through to radio; expert through to tabloid) in the key target constituencies, including national and<br />
international broadcasts, major print publications, blogs, wire, online news services and bloggers.<br />
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3. Objectives<br />
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Overarching objective:<br />
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Increased awareness and accountability in the face of real and growing damages and suffering<br />
caused by climate change and evangelize unique visions of change<br />
• To generate qualitatively constructive and quantitatively widespread media coverage of the CVM<br />
2012, the impacts of climate change, the consequences of inaction on climate change and the<br />
importance of pursuing green development and low- carbon growth<br />
• To disseminate the findings and recommendations of the Climate Vulnerability Monitor 2012<br />
• To generate notoriety in Rio+ 20 with launch event of CVM 2012 <br />
• To best leverage DARA’s role in this effort as an authoritative partner on climate vulnerability, a<br />
source of information on climate change and a leader in the work of climate change as concerns<br />
vulnerable countries.<br />
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read more of the Request for Proposals here: http://daraint.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Request_CVM_2012_Proposal_Media.pdfClimateVMonitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981180394935354609noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4736421735122380390.post-61127039930411404712012-03-07T16:57:00.000+01:002012-03-07T16:57:16.119+01:00Win a Date With History Contest!If you had 2 minutes to address the World’s leaders, what would you say? Hundreds of World Leaders will be gathering in Rio de Janeiro this June to discuss the health and wellbeing of all Earth’s inhabitants. Now you can weigh in! Win a chance to address World Leaders at the UN Rio+20 Earth Summit!<br />
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iSeds0ft8MQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>ClimateVMonitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981180394935354609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4736421735122380390.post-88720846386862715632011-12-22T16:13:00.002+01:002011-12-22T16:13:52.424+01:00Durban climate politics and the growing importance of unity for vulnerable countriesClimateVMonitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981180394935354609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4736421735122380390.post-87194332095991091942011-12-09T18:23:00.001+01:002011-12-09T18:24:33.370+01:00PR: Climate Vulnerable Countries Seek to Catalyse Action at COP17 and Beyond<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">PRESS RELEASE</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">09 DECEMBER 2011 </span><br />
<ul><li>Bangladesh Environment Minister today drew attention to Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) aims,</li>
<li>2011 Ministerial Declaration of the CVF distributed to delegates</li>
</ul><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA – 09 December 2011: The Bangladesh Minister of Environment and Forests </span>today presented the cause of the Climate Vulnerable Forum in his address to the High-Level segment of the UN climate talks in Durban (COP17).<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The Bangladesh Environment Minister, HE Dr. Hasan Mahmud, articulated the importance for an </span>immediate consensus on a mitigation agenda, supported by concrete progress on adaptation, finance and technology at Durban. Speaking on the purpose of the CVF, the honorable minister said: “The CVF is a communication and political platform of most vulnerable countries. It seeks to play a catalytic role through facilitation in reaching a consensus agreement for action here in Durban and<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">beyond.”</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Drawing to the attention of the President of COP17 today in plenary, the Bangladesh Environment </span>Minister said: “A group of severely affected Non-Annex-1 countries met in Dhaka last month at the Climate Vulnerable Forum-2011, attended also by the UN Secretary-General, to highlight our vulnerabilities and to articulate the imperatives for an effective, robust and durable response.”<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The Dhaka Ministerial Declaration of the CVF was also circulated at the plenary.</span>ClimateVMonitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981180394935354609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4736421735122380390.post-40777979083918562082011-12-02T18:12:00.000+01:002011-12-02T18:12:24.459+01:00Climate Vulnerable Forum Meeting in Durban on December 6th, 2011ClimateVMonitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981180394935354609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4736421735122380390.post-39615021780835365492011-12-02T17:37:00.001+01:002011-12-02T17:38:07.415+01:00COFFEE AT RISK: PROTECTING WETLANDS IN UGANDA<a href="http://www.fairclimatedeal.net/impact-of-climate-change-on-fairtrade-producers-2/preserving-wetlands-a-key-factor-to-tackling-climate-change-for-coffee-growers-in-uganda/" target="_blank"><img alt="" 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<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The members of the Ankole Coffee Producers Cooperative Union (ACPCU), located in the Bushenyi District in South West Uganda, are determined to tackle the problem of climate change before the business they established in 1998 is in serious trouble.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4e0Gl5RZ2EcgCcM0neziG8F42VksHS2o6gFVBX8pJd6jIIJwCEyvH2oZqFnkUgJXXWjYLC27AM6LWZDPrVwXMJo2UczyfW8YJfG4WPAXpDKAV78kX3f5TpOyh-BhHFzWwKtAGetdYXED9/s1600/UGANDA_STORY_Photo_1_Credit_FairTrade.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4e0Gl5RZ2EcgCcM0neziG8F42VksHS2o6gFVBX8pJd6jIIJwCEyvH2oZqFnkUgJXXWjYLC27AM6LWZDPrVwXMJo2UczyfW8YJfG4WPAXpDKAV78kX3f5TpOyh-BhHFzWwKtAGetdYXED9/s320/UGANDA_STORY_Photo_1_Credit_FairTrade.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“Although we had good rains this year, drought is a big problem in this area, and if the coffee tree does not get sufficient moisture the young beans fall off too early. Disease, pests, coffee wilt and coffee berry disease have also become a big problem for us”, says John Nuwagaba, ACPCU’s General Manager.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">In addition to climate change, Uganda’s population growth has also had a large impact on the farmers of the ACPCU. Over the past three years the number of people living in the country has doubled to nearly 33 million. The spike has increased the threat of encroachment on important wetlands in the region that act as water purification systems, biodiversity safeguards and provide natural flood control.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“Out of every ten traditional sources of water we had in this part of Uganda, four have permanently dried up because of drought. Farmers who belong to our cooperative are not allowed to encroach on remaining wetlands to increase the size of their coffee gardens. Instead we teach them about better farming techniques that improve a crop’s yield, such as building trenches and mulching to trap moisture”, says John.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">ACPCU’s farmers’ continue to work with FairTrade to diversify these techniques, focused on improving the quality of their crops and addressing ideas for wetland protection. 67 year-old farmer Ngambe Ehab, who has been growing coffee in Mitoana in the Bushenyi district for the past 53 years, feels he has learned a lot from the process.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“At the moment I am losing half my coffee tree garden each year to coffee wilt, which is 2000 trees. I replace them every year at a cost of 500 Ugandan shillings each to buy and transport, which is expensive. I am very concerned about the rate my plants die each year”, says Ngambe.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">To try and mitigate the effects of climate change, Ngambe has introduced a wide variety of practices he has learned. In addition to mulching and digging trenches, one of his most successful innovations is planting large trees in his coffee gardens to provide shade and reduce carbon dioxide. When asked if he has considered diversifying his crops to include more than coffee, the father of 18 children explains how he has seen the broad affects of climate change on agriculture as a whole in the region. He now recognizes there are no longer any safe bets when it comes to choosing a crop from which to make a guaranteed living.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Although being informed about climate change has left ACPU farmers worried about their future, it has also prompted them to embark on larger-scale projects designed to protect the environment. “The next project will involve tree planting, teaching farmers more about how to further improve their farming methods, and restore their environment if it has been affected by flooding or drought. A big part of the project will focus on protecting our wetlands, which are under threat from people”, says John.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">For more information about the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Ankole Coffee Producers’ </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">story visit:</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.fairclimatedeal.net/impact-of-climate-change-on-fairtrade-producers-2/preserving-wetlands-a-key-factor-to-tackling-climate-change-for-coffee-growers-in-uganda/</span></b></div>ClimateVMonitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981180394935354609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4736421735122380390.post-54687882631826777722011-12-01T17:12:00.000+01:002011-12-01T17:12:28.700+01:00WOMEN BUILDING FOOD SECURITY IN SOUTH AFRICA<a href="http://www.oxfam.org/climate" target="_blank"><img alt="" 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<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.3pt 56.65pt 85.0pt 113.35pt 141.7pt 170.05pt 198.4pt 226.75pt 255.1pt 283.45pt 311.8pt 340.15pt; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Lena Muller is a 52-year old mother and labourer living on a farm in Witzenberg Valley near Ceres in the Western Cape of South Africa. The effects of climate change have forced Lena to find creative ways to put food on the table each day for her 10 family members. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.3pt 56.65pt 85.0pt 113.35pt 141.7pt 170.05pt 198.4pt 226.75pt 255.1pt 283.45pt 311.8pt 340.15pt; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdvdrOnCTVw2Rsmv_7yEr74Y4jEnR6UZwB736KwRuEcv23ClRK_jyPtrHY56zj6yFk2s6v2Cj10T1qkngMYEM5zx-D6W10GBrddvER43rZ-lA1OTeH42Idq0xUUbJFrh3I5HL4P-wAtkx_/s1600/1f3879c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdvdrOnCTVw2Rsmv_7yEr74Y4jEnR6UZwB736KwRuEcv23ClRK_jyPtrHY56zj6yFk2s6v2Cj10T1qkngMYEM5zx-D6W10GBrddvER43rZ-lA1OTeH42Idq0xUUbJFrh3I5HL4P-wAtkx_/s320/1f3879c.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.3pt 56.65pt 85.0pt 113.35pt 141.7pt 170.05pt 198.4pt 226.75pt 255.1pt 283.45pt 311.8pt 340.15pt; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Lena knows first hand that women are especially vulnerable to the impacts of a changing climate. In the valley, unexpected shifts in weather patterns have changed the availability of important natural resources like water. This has caused the quality, quantity and diversity of food to markedly decrease and prices of food to rise.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.3pt 56.65pt 85.0pt 113.35pt 141.7pt 170.05pt 198.4pt 226.75pt 255.1pt 283.45pt 311.8pt 340.15pt; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.3pt 56.65pt 85.0pt 113.35pt 141.7pt 170.05pt 198.4pt 226.75pt 255.1pt 283.45pt 311.8pt 340.15pt; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Buying food is the top priority for Lena. She has had to defer all other household purchases until the family has additional money. “I put food first because if there isn’t food, children do not go to school happy and the men won’t be happy at work because they lack concentration and get sick if they have nothing in their stomachs”, says Lena.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.3pt 56.65pt 85.0pt 113.35pt 141.7pt 170.05pt 198.4pt 226.75pt 255.1pt 283.45pt 311.8pt 340.15pt; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.3pt 56.65pt 85.0pt 113.35pt 141.7pt 170.05pt 198.4pt 226.75pt 255.1pt 283.45pt 311.8pt 340.15pt; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Women in the region have begun responding to the food shortage by attempting to grow their own vegetables. But access to land remains a significant barrier, as does the changing weather patterns and poor soil quality in the areas in which they live.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.3pt 56.65pt 85.0pt 113.35pt 141.7pt 170.05pt 198.4pt 226.75pt 255.1pt 283.45pt 311.8pt 340.15pt; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.3pt 56.65pt 85.0pt 113.35pt 141.7pt 170.05pt 198.4pt 226.75pt 255.1pt 283.45pt 311.8pt 340.15pt; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Recently Lena decided to leave her job as a seasonal farm worker and join the Dynamic Agri Cooperative supported by Oxfam’s Women on Farms Project. The new organization is focused on finding an area of good land that the woman can farm together. During the start up phase, the Women on Farms Project provides Lena a small stipend once a month to ensure her and her family are able to put food on the table while the organization gets off the ground.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.3pt 56.65pt 85.0pt 113.35pt 141.7pt 170.05pt 198.4pt 226.75pt 255.1pt 283.45pt 311.8pt 340.15pt; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.3pt 56.65pt 85.0pt 113.35pt 141.7pt 170.05pt 198.4pt 226.75pt 255.1pt 283.45pt 311.8pt 340.15pt; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Lena says that the increases in food prices are much higher than the salaries earned by farm</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.3pt 56.65pt 85.0pt 113.35pt 141.7pt 170.05pt 198.4pt 226.75pt 255.1pt 283.45pt 311.8pt 340.15pt; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">workers. “The salaries are not adjusted as food prices go up, the farmer just gives the salary and assumes that you will cope; he does not factor in the number of payments one should make such as shop debts, children’s school fees and uniforms. He just takes it that the money is all for food”, says Lena. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.3pt 56.65pt 85.0pt 113.35pt 141.7pt 170.05pt 198.4pt 226.75pt 255.1pt 283.45pt 311.8pt 340.15pt; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.3pt 56.65pt 85.0pt 113.35pt 141.7pt 170.05pt 198.4pt 226.75pt 255.1pt 283.45pt 311.8pt 340.15pt; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Lena and other women like her have to deal with food inflation on an almost daily basis.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.3pt 56.65pt 85.0pt 113.35pt 141.7pt 170.05pt 198.4pt 226.75pt 255.1pt 283.45pt 311.8pt 340.15pt; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.3pt 56.65pt 85.0pt 113.35pt 141.7pt 170.05pt 198.4pt 226.75pt 255.1pt 283.45pt 311.8pt 340.15pt; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">“Five years ago, flour was cheaper, a two kilogram packet used to cost eight rand but now it costs fifteen rand. A tin of coffee was ten rand and now it is more than twenty four rand”, says Lena.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.3pt 56.65pt 85.0pt 113.35pt 141.7pt 170.05pt 198.4pt 226.75pt 255.1pt 283.45pt 311.8pt 340.15pt; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: OfficinaSans-Book; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">For more information about Lena’s story visit: <a href="http://www.oxfam.org/climate">http://www.oxfam.org/climate</a></span></div>ClimateVMonitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981180394935354609noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4736421735122380390.post-13328796291535873052011-11-30T17:01:00.000+01:002011-11-30T17:01:58.986+01:00HEARINGS: INNOVATIVE WOMEN IN NIGERIA SPEAK UP<a href="http://cllimatejusticetribunals.blogspot.com/2011/10/nigeria.html" target="_blank"><img alt="" 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<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Princess Caroline Usikpedo Omoniye is a force for change in Nigeria. Founder and National President of the Niger Delta’s Women’s Movement of Peace and Development, she has empowered and mobilized hundreds of women to promote peace and take action on issues like climate change. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBHKreNeIxa6zulD73I45BozJ_rrIIn3IFkoYxCeQU9M8a62wC7TOMMLZOplU2E9isZM5NXF5atVSUPGcrUKgzD09SN7nPAv9Djslpg1G-6ICk-aQo3Fr6IqKFJYImLYw9UPkteKjffwWM/s1600/NIGERIA_STORY_photo_1_Credit_NDWPD.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBHKreNeIxa6zulD73I45BozJ_rrIIn3IFkoYxCeQU9M8a62wC7TOMMLZOplU2E9isZM5NXF5atVSUPGcrUKgzD09SN7nPAv9Djslpg1G-6ICk-aQo3Fr6IqKFJYImLYw9UPkteKjffwWM/s320/NIGERIA_STORY_photo_1_Credit_NDWPD.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Speaking at the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“Strengthening Voices: Search for Solutions” 2011 Women’s Tribunals on Gender and Climate Justice in Nigeria, Caroline emphasized the importance of having women, who are the primary farmers in the region, share their stories. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“The aim<b> </b>of the Climate Justice Hearings is to up-scale local solutions and bring the voices of those most affected – women and traditionally excluded groups – to influence negotiations and plans of action on climate change at the national as well as the international level during COP17 and Rio+20”, says Caroline. “The testimonies will explore the relationship between individual experiences with the manifestations of climate change and the action taken at the local or regional level to address the climate change issues faced by women.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">A number of impacts are of key concern to women in the Niger Delta. With 70% of the country’s population residing in rural areas and engaged in agriculture production, changes in rainfall patterns have dramatically reduced crop yields. Crops in the Delta are highly dependent on rainfall with cultivation rarely practiced. In addition, four decades of continual gas flares have made Nigeria one of the highest emitters of greenhouse gases in Africa. Oil spills, seismic blasts and discharges of untreated effluents have also deeply degraded water and soil quality and destroyed the coastal mangrove ecosystem.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“The climate is a fundamental element of the environment and a change in the climate affects other elements of the environment. Solutions should not only be made visible, they must be seen as evident and resourceful in the lives of our women, who are undoubtedly the base of any environment that yearns for growth and development”, says Caroline.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">As Nigeria moves forward in the face of climate change, Caroline emphasizes the need to achieve socio-economic development in the region by managing resources in a sustainable way. She calls for authorities to hear the stories collected through the tribunal of women’s experiences of climate change and to use them as guidelines to draft necessary actions and initiatives that would work to reduce poverty and respect environmental rights.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“Policies and innovations to enhance adaptation to climate change cannot be viewed in isolation from current development priorities: indeed many key stakeholders recognize the need to focus on ‘climate resilient’ policies and innovations that address both current development priorities as well as providing greater livelihood resilience in the face of future climate change”, says Caroline.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">For more information Caroline’s</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">story and to learn more about the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Women’s Tribunals on Gender and Climate Justice </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">visit: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #002060;"><a href="http://cllimatejusticetribunals.blogspot.com/2011/10/nigeria.html"><span style="color: #002060;">http://cllimatejusticetribunals.blogspot.com/2011/10/nigeria.html</span></a></span></u></b></span></div>ClimateVMonitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981180394935354609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4736421735122380390.post-62914900257937667392011-11-29T17:03:00.000+01:002011-11-29T17:03:25.970+01:00TANZANIA: ENGAGING COMMUNITIES IN FOREST PROTECTION<a href="http://climatecapacity.org/news/newsletter/55" target="_blank"><img alt="" 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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">Ms. Rahima Njaidi is the Executive Director of The Community Forest Network of Tanzania (MJUMITA), an organization of approximately 500 community forest groups in 420 Tanzanian villages. Rahima is dedicated to ensuring that innovative forestry initiatives in the region benefit not only the climate but communities as well.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieOPcmrUiEHe7St-9AGUw3zCHN8FF6rNmAoprRuP_0nTvKptb-HJ5XU4t75gRvau6u8JPQhGhyptssXv0zoa-67PbtmGHSq3ZXKLpJy8PhPTwHezB5y2jj9DKvXVJrttPV5Mio9jW44jnr/s1600/TANZANIA_STORY_Photo_1_Credit_MJUMITA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieOPcmrUiEHe7St-9AGUw3zCHN8FF6rNmAoprRuP_0nTvKptb-HJ5XU4t75gRvau6u8JPQhGhyptssXv0zoa-67PbtmGHSq3ZXKLpJy8PhPTwHezB5y2jj9DKvXVJrttPV5Mio9jW44jnr/s200/TANZANIA_STORY_Photo_1_Credit_MJUMITA.jpg" width="140" /></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">MJUMITA’s 6,000 individual members are mostly small farmers or beekeepers and other forest users living close to government-owned Tanzanian forests. Since 2009 and with support through Southern Voices, MJUMITA has engaged its members through training workshops and community radio about the impacts of climate change. Known as a powerful network on the ground, MJUMITA plays a central role in Tanzania's policy of Participatory Forest Management (PFM).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">"The key task for MJUMITA is to act as an advocacy platform for the communities living near the forest, on issues like forest management and governance", says Rahima.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">One mechanism of Participatory Forest Management where MJUMITA plays a large role is through Joint Forest Management (JFM) practices. Through JFM, communities are asked to help protect government owned forests from illegal logging and other illegal activities. In return for patrolling and protecting the forest and acting as forest guards, communities receive 40% of the income from the sale of forest products.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">"But that is not happening, so communities have actually been protecting the forest for nothing, as volunteers. Now that ‘REDD’ mechanisms - or ways to fight climate change by reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation - are being introduced in Tanzania, MJUMITA must ensure that the forest users are involved", explains Rahima.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">REDD mechanisms have been introduced in the country as a set of steps designed to use market or financial incentives to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases from deforestation and forest degradation. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">"The key objective in our advocacy is to ensure that forest communities receive a fair share of the benefits from the forests", says Rahima. "We are asking for representation on the national task force on REDD."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">In addition to advocacy at a national level, MJUMITA has also been engaged in promoting REDD through international climate negotiations.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">"We have joined forces with likeminded organizations in the Accra Caucus", explained Rahima. “The Accra Caucus is a loose network of Southern and Northern NGOs working on forest issues and REDD in the climate negotiations. It is important that REDD rules will commit governments and other actors to respect the rights of the people living off the forest", says Rahima. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">For more information about </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #272c32; font-size: small;">Rahmia’s</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;"> story visit:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://climatecapacity.org/news/newsletter/55</span></u></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mbemba Doucouré lives in Senegal, West Africa. Mbemba began his work as an environmental activist in 1992, driven <span>by the need to address issues such as climate change in order to leave behind a healthy planet for future generations.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihsvGTpmxEuVeK_rkq71bfCBzUVRdftyaUF31KioRfZM4QS1F0gKbyaMaJIkbnwLb6AoouJGWrpuSPTHyt9Lk4jr8VIHirSAOB_9Zk6NzyTICqABKRcp_GKIWYy_HgQGtOAuRpbmxTbLWQ/s1600/SENEGAL_STORY_Photo_1_Credit_350.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihsvGTpmxEuVeK_rkq71bfCBzUVRdftyaUF31KioRfZM4QS1F0gKbyaMaJIkbnwLb6AoouJGWrpuSPTHyt9Lk4jr8VIHirSAOB_9Zk6NzyTICqABKRcp_GKIWYy_HgQGtOAuRpbmxTbLWQ/s320/SENEGAL_STORY_Photo_1_Credit_350.jpg" width="232" /></a>As with many countries in Africa, Senegal has been severely hit by the adverse effects of climate change. “Vulnerability is due not only to the level of climate disruption but also to the sensitivity of the affected communities and their ability to adapt or deal with these disturbances”, says Mbemba.</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 15pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Agriculture employs approximately 70% of the workforce in Senegal, contributing 10% to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Up to 96% of the agriculture in the region is made up of rain reliant crops. The variations in climate and rainfall have had immediate consequences for communities in the region, including declining crop yields and food insecurity.</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 15pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Faced with this situation and refusing to be amorphous spectators, my friends and I have opted for participation in local community development with concrete actions in the field”, says Mbemba.</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">In 2004, along with a group of young people, Mbemba created a local group named Union des Jeunes pour le Développement Durable de la région de Tambacounda (UJDT). Tambacounda is lush vegetative area in the eastern part of Senegal, located about 470 km from Niokolo Koba National Park, the largest forest reserve in the country and a UNESCO World Heritage Centre now considered to be endangered.</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 15pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Since 2004, UJDT has successfully launched a vast campaign of reforestation, education and advocacy in Tambacounda and Dakar. The organization has planted 2000 trees in the Colibantang Maka, Malema and Sinthiou Dialacoto communities surrounding Tambacounda. </span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 15pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">In 2010, a year marked by strong climate change awareness campaigns for local communities and schools in Senegal, Mbemba joined the 350.org movement. Working with others, he helped successfully organize the Global Work Party on 10/10/10, planting 200 trees and engaging students of Gouye College in the town Tambacounda about issues surrounding climate change. Mbemba organized a similar activity coupled with a sit-in to celebrate <span>Moving Planet<i> </i>this September and </span>engaged more than two hundred students in the fight against climate change. </span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">“We had invited Colonel Mbemba Amsatou Niang, focal point of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) as main speaker. According to him ‘<i>the underestimation of the impacts of climate change are now a threat to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.</i>’ This event was a great step in the goal we set for ourselves to prepare for a healthy and sustainable environment for future generations”, says Mbemba.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</div>ClimateVMonitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981180394935354609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4736421735122380390.post-28481666868582357462011-11-25T17:23:00.002+01:002011-11-25T17:25:07.067+01:00BUILDING RESILIENCE THROUGH INNOVATION IN GHANA<img alt="" 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/> <b><span style="color: #134f5c;">Africa Storytelling Project</span></b><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Anabig Ayaab is a 50 year old farmer from Tariganga, Garu-Tempane District, in the dry Savannah Zone of the Upper East Region of Ghana. Also a wife and mother of seven, Anabig has been struggling with how shifting weather patterns have been affecting her ability to feed her family and make a living. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span id="goog_2127837350"></span><span id="goog_2127837351"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Three years ago, Anabig was among a group of women who took part in the Village Savings and Loans Project implemented by CARE International in Northern Ghana. The project </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">aims to build capacity and further empower women like Anabig, and communities like Tariganga, to diversify their farming systems and make good choices as they adapt to the impacts of climate change.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span id="goog_915978277"></span><span id="goog_915978278"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">As with most of the families in Tariganga, Anabig depends almost entirely on the land for producing food and generating income through crop farming, dry season gardening, animal rearing, and petty trade. But the growing frequency of severe drought continues to destroy crops, reduce the availability of water, increase disease in animals and spread hunger and poverty across the region. For Anabig’s family the lack of food during the dry season has become a yearly inevitability.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgrK_jTtNau97_oVtROaKtQ_WWutxhSa3oZJizDqaL62-G3Z2pOn7o0oa79PAw9XbY6c8Nnt9cG0XRYbCj7wpeakL0km5K_QZAIXtCqI9PYPW2HKzKKkfwYyxL00Z9AV7MSvLRRjRo1fvJ/s1600/ZANZIBAR_STORY_Photo_1_Credit_Care.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgrK_jTtNau97_oVtROaKtQ_WWutxhSa3oZJizDqaL62-G3Z2pOn7o0oa79PAw9XbY6c8Nnt9cG0XRYbCj7wpeakL0km5K_QZAIXtCqI9PYPW2HKzKKkfwYyxL00Z9AV7MSvLRRjRo1fvJ/s200/ZANZIBAR_STORY_Photo_1_Credit_Care.jpg" width="146" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“In recent years, farming has become more difficult. The soils are less fertile, seeds have become more expensive to acquire and the rains come late and leave early”, says Anabig.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">After taking part in the savings and loan project, Anabig put her new knowledge of farming practices to work. Making compost instead of buying inorganic fertilizer, recognizing that deforestation hurts her environment and understanding how best to invest in her farm, Anabig has seen an important increase in her crop yields.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“I was able to acquire improved seeds of maize from the seed growers by taking a loan from my savings group. I bought enough seeds, which I shared with my husband. The results are very exciting. On my own, I harvested 5 bags of maize from my 2.5 acres of farmland, compared to 2 bags the previous years. My husband harvested 9 bags from his farm as compared to 5 bags in previous years. We used the improved seeds combined with use of farm residue as organic fertilizer and this has brought a lot of excitement to my family. There is now peace, unity and love in my family. My husband now respects me and I feel happy to be among my fellow women in the community”, says Anabig. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The increased yields have enabled Anabig and her husband to insure their family under Ghana’s national health insurance scheme, and to provide her children with all the supplies they need for school. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Anabig’s openness to </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">learning new skills and diversifying her family’s farming systems </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">is an important example of adaptive success in the face of the serious impacts of climate change. Building on what she has experienced, Anabig </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">hopes to learn more about how to design and apply community-based adaptation strategies, increase the resilience of her livelihood choices and reduce the risk of disaster throughout her community.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">For more information about Anabig’s story visit: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.careclimatechange.org/personal-stories">http://www.careclimatechange.org/personal-stories</a></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div>ClimateVMonitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981180394935354609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4736421735122380390.post-47805522124935229962011-11-25T17:15:00.000+01:002011-11-25T17:15:27.267+01:00PLANTING A BETTER FUTURE IN TANZANIA<a href="http://www.careclimatechange.org/cop17/cc-stories%20" target="_blank"><img alt="" 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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amina Haji Ali is 27 years old and lives in Kitogani village in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Amina knows that trees are her future, which is why she chose to become a part of the Hifadhi ya Misitu ya Asili project (Conservation of Community Natural Forests), or HIMA.</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Forests in Zanzibar, as in many places, have been deeply impacted by the effects of climate change. Shifting precipitation patterns and changing growing seasons have forced many people to begin clearing the land in order to try cultivating different foods. </span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYwwbV1ryrLY8T3b0-cOkbP6-hb3tg5_vRyaVRVBlkeRUqgCD_BXOeMOt3SDp71UcyiaAi_4wyRAoAAGkoRAXnrOhsUL3JltCJhTGCphx0Cdp5oz9yO89-Ompo7elSPUgO3mSt7FJjFkny/s1600/ZANZIBAR_STORY_Photo_1_Credit_Care.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYwwbV1ryrLY8T3b0-cOkbP6-hb3tg5_vRyaVRVBlkeRUqgCD_BXOeMOt3SDp71UcyiaAi_4wyRAoAAGkoRAXnrOhsUL3JltCJhTGCphx0Cdp5oz9yO89-Ompo7elSPUgO3mSt7FJjFkny/s200/ZANZIBAR_STORY_Photo_1_Credit_Care.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Today, natural forests are found mostly in areas left behind during the establishment of coconut and clove plantations. In addition to lands being cleared for agricultural fields and infrastructure, people’s dependence on firewood for both fuel and as a source of income has placed the forests in danger.</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Increasing the number of trees planted in this community wood lot is a link to a better life for me, my husband and our children”, says Amina.</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Planting trees is a tangible way to support the growth of the forests and provide people like Amina with an alternative source of income. With HIMA’s support, Amina says the number of trees planted by community members has risen from 1,000 in three seasons to nearly 1,000 per season. </span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Planting more trees is part of a larger, more comprehensive approach to forest management for Amina’s community. In addition to expanding tree nurseries to increase wood lot production, the community plans to strengthen its equitable decision-making within community forest management, develop alternative sources of income, and explore ways to reduce their own firewood consumption - such as through improved stoves that help reduce CO2 emissions.</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">This approach to forest conservation may even provide financial rewards for the community through carbon revenue from Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). REDD mechanisms have been introduced in the country as a set of steps designed to use market or financial incentives to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases from deforestation and forest degradation. </span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the community forest close to her home, Amina says she hopes to benefit from the trees she is planting in two ways - by selling the trees for different purposes such as building poles or firewood and by conserving the natural forests and contributing to the revenue the community will receive through REDD.</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amina, like many women working in the wood lots, plans to use part of the money she makes planting trees to pay the school fees for her children. In this way her children will grow up strong along side the trees, supporting each other to build a better future for their entire community. </span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">For more information about Amina’s story visit: <b><a href="http://www.careclimatechange.org/cop17/cc-stories">http://www.careclimatechange.org/cop17/cc-stories</a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<span class="ln l" style="height: 2.597em; margin-top: 2.304em; width: 65.673em;"></span><img alt="" height="200" src="data:image/jpeg;base64,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" width="200" /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 2.208em; width: 71.766em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">Ephrème Hategeka Bwisha works tirelessly to mobilize his community and its local authorities to</span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 0.249em; width: 63.087em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.56em;">restore the forests of Congo which have been impacted by war and climate change.</span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 2.195em; width: 49.15em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 2.195em; width: 49.15em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">Born in 1965, Ephrème studies economics at university. <span style="letter-spacing: 0.06em;">W</span>hen he</span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 0.248em; width: 49.758em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">completed his studies, he settled in Idjwi near Bukavu, eastern DR</span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 0.249em; width: 49.792em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">Congo. Ephrème had a vision of building a local community-based</span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 0.249em; width: 46.809em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">organization that could focus on restoring the area's destroyed</span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 0.266em; width: 50.632em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">ecosystems, exploring food security and solutions for health issues.</span></span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 4.107em; width: 47.728em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 4.107em; width: 47.728em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">Following the large-scale deforestation caused by the Rwandan</span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 0.249em; width: 51.77em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">refugee crisis between 1994 and 1996, Ephrème founded Voluntariat</span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 0.251em; width: 50.887em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">Action Mobility (VAM). Last year, VAM adopted climate change as a</span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 0.269em; width: 6.452em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.57em;">priority.</span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 2.176em; width: 49.203em;"><span class="f105" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">“<span style="letter-spacing: 0.06em;">W</span>e can not put everything on the back of Rwandan refugees, we</span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 0.249em; width: 51.541em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">must recognize that it is also a significant responsibility of Congolese</span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 0.248em; width: 51.3em;"><span class="fh">to deal with what has happened to our environment</span><span class="f105">”</span><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">, says Ephrème.</span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 2.197em; width: 75.534em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 2.197em; width: 75.534em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">Despite many challenges to its success, VAM has become a force in the community. Factors such as</span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 0.248em; width: 76.659em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">low levels of environmental awareness and little understanding of the impacts of climate change by the</span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 0.249em; width: 75.757em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">people and local government, as well as inadequate human and financial resources did not stop VAM</span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 0.247em; width: 46.716em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">from moving forward to restore the local ecosystem near Idjwi.</span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 2.201em; width: 76.869em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 2.201em; width: 76.869em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">Many would say Ephrème's group has pioneered a vibrant local and international advocacy movement,</span></span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; width: 72.746em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">mobilizing authorities and communities in the face of climate change to safeguard and restore the</span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 0.249em; width: 74.227em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">forests in eastern Congo. Since 1999, VAM has planted an average of 9,000 seedlings per year, an</span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 0.248em; width: 63.736em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">activity that culminates annually with the Global Days of Action organized by 350.org<span style="letter-spacing: 0.06em;">.</span></span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 0.267em; width: 75.975em;"><span class="f105">“<span style="letter-spacing: 0.06em;">W</span>e colle</span><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">ct seeds of native trees in May and conserve them for germination until August. Other seeds</span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 0.249em; width: 70.945em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">such as Eucalyptus, Grivelia, Acacia and Cedrela are purchased from Nyabihu, near Gisenyi in</span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 0.248em; width: 74.176em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">Rwanda. During the Global <span style="letter-spacing: 0.06em;">W</span>ork Party in 2010, we planted 8,000 seedlings, and 6,000 plants were</span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 0.249em; width: 71.737em;"><span class="fh">planted for Moving Planet - the worldwide climate solutions rally - on September 24, 2011</span><span class="f105">”</span><span class="fh" style="letter-spacing: -0.011em; padding-right: 0.28em;">, says</span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 0.247em; width: 7.769em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">Ephrème.</span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 2.197em; width: 72.833em;"><span class="f105" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">Ephrème notes that collecting these species is hard and expensive work, but the impact of VAM’s</span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 0.247em; width: 25.419em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">activities on communities is clear.</span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 2.177em; width: 72.168em;"><span class="f105" style="padding-right: 0.28em;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 2.177em; width: 72.168em;"><span class="f105" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">“<span style="letter-spacing: 0.06em;">W</span>hat makes us happy is that local people are asking us where to find the seeds to duplicate the</span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 0.252em; width: 73.594em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">model. Sometimes, the trees planted on the roads are stolen, not as an act of destruction but to be</span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 0.267em; width: 77.16em;"><span class="f105">transplanted within households”</span><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">, explains Ephrème, before pointing out that the administrative authority</span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 0.247em; width: 40.358em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.56em;">is increasingly becoming more sensitive to this issue.</span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 2.177em; width: 74.892em;"><span class="f105" style="padding-right: 0.28em;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 2.177em; width: 74.892em;"><span class="f105" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">“Today if you want to cut a tree even in your property, you need permission from the Inspector of the</span></span> <span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 0.249em; width: 48.952em;"><span class="fh">environment. Thi</span><span class="f105">s is a result of VAM’s adv</span><span class="fh">ocacy</span><span class="f105">”</span><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;">, says Ephrème.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span class="ln l" style="height: 1.833em; margin-top: 2.073em; width: 37.151em;"><span class="fh" style="position: relative; top: 0.07em;"> For more information about Ephrème</span><span class="f105" style="position: relative; top: 0.07em;">’s</span><span class="fh" style="letter-spacing: -0.011em; position: relative; top: 0.07em;"> story visit:</span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span class="ln l" style="height: 1.681em; margin-top: 0.249em; width: 48.952em;"><span class="fh" style="padding-right: 0.28em;"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_554598109">http://world.350.org/africa/2011/10/06/on-the-front-to-protect-congo-forests/</a></span></span></span>ClimateVMonitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981180394935354609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4736421735122380390.post-33797914615413149012011-11-24T18:47:00.000+01:002011-11-24T18:47:24.687+01:00INNOVATIVE FARMING TO FEED 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<div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFIdAo54Ovp2bly7eA4Ra5d1DMRba3zAbCbt7nbbNraqiZ1vK8UJWWA5W8lAYjdy7CHRApxOrUSR5-OVu7mbVcA7hwg1olkMt2vnoge7OL4sYrAuDBhtV9BI0B23nP6WrrpKKDyoE9iiLI/s1600/MADAGASCAR_STORY_Photo_1_Credit_WWF-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFIdAo54Ovp2bly7eA4Ra5d1DMRba3zAbCbt7nbbNraqiZ1vK8UJWWA5W8lAYjdy7CHRApxOrUSR5-OVu7mbVcA7hwg1olkMt2vnoge7OL4sYrAuDBhtV9BI0B23nP6WrrpKKDyoE9iiLI/s200/MADAGASCAR_STORY_Photo_1_Credit_WWF-1.jpg" width="200" /></a><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Emile Jean lives in Tsiandriona Nord, a small village belonging to the rural community of Itampolo in the south of Madagascar. He is 54 years old and lives with his wife and eleven kids - six boys and five girls - in a house with three rooms. Emile Jean is part of the Mahafaly tribe and the Temitongia clan.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Like most people in this region of Madagascar, including his father and grandfather, Emile Jean is a farmer and cattle-breeder. He owns a few Zebu, but mainly lives off the maize and vegetables he grows, half of which is sold, half of which goes to providing food for his family of thirteen. Growing enough food has become one of Emile Jean’s biggest challenges in the face of climate change.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“When my grandfather was young, they didn’t have more than one or two bad years in 20 years. When my father was young, they had a bad year every 7 years. Now, it’s every two years. We even risk having the second bad year in a row. We are very worried”, says Emile Jean.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Emile Jean has noticed the shifts in the weather for years. The amount of rainfall has dramatically decreased, distribution has changed, storms have become less frequent and more intense and temperatures have risen each year in the area.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">These shifts have resulted in a longer dry period of nearly 7 to 8 months and a shorter rainy season of only two months. This makes it difficult for farmers like Emile to plant and live off their crops all year round or to afford the rising prices of staples like cassava, rice, oil and sugar.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“For some years now, we have been losing a part of our manioc yield because the rain comes too late. We also have more insects these days”, says Emile Jean.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Villagers in the area believe that changes in climate, as with many other natural things, occur because God and spirits living in the forests are angry. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><br />
</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“We sacrificed a zebu to ask God for his protection during these difficult times”, says Emile Jean. “In exchange we promised to protect nature and the forest. It was like a contract and God helped us through difficult times.”</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><br />
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</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Farmers like Emile Jean, have also found other ways to adapt to the changes in climate such as reducing the amount of crops they plant that require a high volume of water, like maize, opting for drought-resistant strains. Emile Jean now also waits for the rainy season to plant - to avoid losing his seeds.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“We used to plant in the dry season also. This helped to overcome the lack of food between the rainy seasons. Now this is not possible any more, we just lose seeds if we do it. It used to rain a lot in January. Now there is no rain at all in this month”, said Emile Jean.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><br />
Through WWF, Emile Jean has been introduced to other </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">agriculture techniques such as drip irrigation, market gardening, and crop rotation. The organization also distributed rain gauges to communities across the Mahafaly Plateau, including Emile Jean's village. This allowed farmers to collect rainfall data themselves, and taught them how to interpret the data in order to use the information to help determine which crops to plant and when for the upcoming season.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">These innovations are what Emile Jean hopes will ensure his 11 children will not only make it through school, but use their education to move beyond a dependency on the land and the direct impacts of climate change. “I hope that they all become intellectuals, someone important”, says Emile Jean.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">For more information about Emile’s story visit: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.wwf.mg/?202346/Adapting-farming-to-combat-climate-change-in-Madagascar---the-story-of-Emile-Jean">http://www.wwf.mg/?202346/Adapting-farming-to-combat-climate-change-in-Madagascar---the-story-of-Emile-Jean</a></b></span></div>ClimateVMonitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981180394935354609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4736421735122380390.post-43362261167145400402011-11-22T17:12:00.000+01:002011-11-22T17:12:43.779+01:00Speech by Bangladesh Foreign Minister, Dipu Moni<div class="post_date">November 14, 2011</div><div class="post_date"><br />
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<strong>Hon’ble Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina,<br />
Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon,<br />
President Figurers Olsen of Costa Rica,<br />
Hon’ble Ministers,<br />
Excellencies,<br />
Distinguished Guests,<br />
Ladies and Gentlemen,</strong><br />
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Good morning!<br />
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It is my pleasure to welcome you at this Ministerial meeting of the Climate Vulnerable Forum. We thank the Ministers and delegates for attending this meeting.<br />
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The presence of over 20 delegations from CVF members from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and the Caribbean underscores the desire of these countries to be heard; their perspectives to be taken into account in the climate change discourse. In fact, climate change is unforgiving, irrespective of location and historical contribution to its causes. We are hopeful that this conclave will shape a critical visible mass with a capacity to impact the outcome in climate change negotiations. It is reassuring that a good number of our partner countries, international organizations as well as non-state stakeholders have also gathered here to extend their hands of cooperation. Together, we intend to discuss the content and contours of future engagement to make a difference and indeed to reduce our vulnerability. We are particularly beholden to the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), DARA and UNDP for their support and their faith in our capacity to make a difference.<br />
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We are grateful to Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon for his presence here today. He has adjusted his travel plans for this and we acknowledge his personal commitment and the UN system’s keenness to internalize concerns of the climatically vulnerable countries in their programmes.<br />
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<strong>Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen,</strong><br />
Climate change is a reality that is playing havoc with human lives and livelihood as well as the environment, natural resources and infrastructures. Most of the severely affected countries are countries with limited coping capacities, which render them particularly vulnerable. For Bangladesh, our susceptibility comes from our geographical location and a global phenomenon to which we have not contributed at all.<br />
CVF members have inadequate preparedness, resilience, and adaptive capacities. External support is therefore critical for us to be able to adapt well and manage impacts better. We need support in areas of adaptation, capacity building and technology transfer.<br />
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<strong>Ladies and gentlemen,</strong><br />
We are grateful to the Maldives for taking the lead in 2009 in creating this platform. Taking inspiration from the outcome of previous meetings and their impact on the international climate discourse, we have decided to invite more countries based on risks that they face and the extent of their vulnerability. We hope that this broad-based coalition would afford us greater strength and voice to raise our legitimate demands at the Durban climate talks.<br />
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CVF-2011 seeks to increase the level of awareness in the public domain of the dangerous consequences of climate change for vulnerable communities, of remedial actions and of the opportunities that exist amidst challenges. While we identify collective actions, we would seek to forge enhanced understanding with other state parties and international actors of the urgency to act and of economic and technological requirements.<br />
The process of negotiations in the UNFCCC and poor realisation of committed international support do not inspire either in their content or in pace. We see little prospect of easy and direct access to funds and technology for the most vulnerable countries. Disbursement is extremely slow and often is donor-driven There is lack of clarity on new and additional funds for the vulnerable countries. We need clearly outlined supportive measures on adaptation.<br />
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We must also appreciate that adaptation is very costly, as our access to technology is limited. And then, adaptation cannot be an endless process, without matching concrete and time-bound progress on mitigation. Hence, the need for immediate conclusion of negotiations on the second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol. Any further delay may undermine the legally binding international climate regime and create a legal vacuum. Here, it would be logical for major emitters including from the developing world to manifest commitment. Countries from the developing South may voluntarily accept mitigation commitments, based on equity and their own capacities.<br />
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We must also acknowledge that we face an uninspiring future. Sitting idle in such a situation is no option. We have to take the lead and show to the world that we are ready to accept moral leadership. We ought to express firm resolve to pursue green growth paths voluntarily as we remain steadfast in our endeavors to reduce poverty and attain economic growth. We must be ready to lead by example.<br />
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<strong>Distinguished guests, Ladies and gentlemen, </strong><br />
Our objective is also to add dynamism to the Forum. CVF 2011, it would appear, has already generated interest among the stakeholders which, we expect, would help put our concerns and challenges at the core of global development and the environment agenda.<br />
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Our senior officials met yesterday and have secured significant convergence on the way forward. I am confident that our deliberations at the Ministerial level would contribute to making the CVF a sustainable platform. We are encouraged to have the Hon’ble Prime Minister of Bangladesh in our midst today. Through her relentless efforts and strong leadership, she has been successful in bringing the plight and the need of the climatically vulnerable countries at the center of the climate change discourse. I am confident that we will benefit from her wise counsel and guidance towards adding further dynamism to our Forum and making it relevant in the global climate and development discourse.<br />
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I thank you once again for joining CVF 2011 and contributing to its success.ClimateVMonitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981180394935354609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4736421735122380390.post-30527886669279733342011-11-16T17:54:00.001+01:002011-11-16T18:13:25.339+01:00Climate vulnerable countries unite in Dhaka ministerial Forum pledging firm common stance ahead of COP17 in Durban<div id="header_climate"></div><br />
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<div class="wp-caption-text">UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the Climate Vulnerable Forum inauguration</div></div><br />
<b>DHAKA, 14 November 2011</b>- Nineteen of the most vulnerable countries to climate change have today agreed to present a unified front filling the leadership vacuum ahead of COP17 in Durban as they signed the Dhaka Declaration of the Climate Vulnerable Forum, following a major ministerial meeting held in Bangladesh. Inaugurated by the UN Secretary General, Ban-Ki moon, participating countries insisted on urgent adoption of a comprehensive and legally-binding global agreement capable of fully attaining the objectives of the UNFCCC.<br />
<a href="http://daraint.org/2011/11/14/2748/climate-vulnerable-forum-declaration-adopted/">The Forum’s Declaration</a> called on Durban to ensure securing of a second term of the Kyoto protocol without a gap between the first and the second, and a legally-binding agreement on greenhouse gas emissions cuts. It also included committing the group of vulnerable countries to low carbon development and called for a new global Climate Vulnerability Monitor on low-carbon development.<br />
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José María Figueres, trustee of DARA, the international organisation that supports the CVF, and former president of Costa Rica commented:<i> “Vulnerable countries are insulted by the finance default. I call on all countries present to occupy Durban.“</i> <br />
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<a href="http://daraint.org/2011/11/14/2748/climate-vulnerable-forum-declaration-adopted/">The Dhaka Declaration</a> also reaffirms the commitment by climate vulnerable countries to focus on adaptation, particularly in the short term in order to minimise immediate danger, and calls on developed countries to support the implementation of schemes. Similarly, the declaration recognises an urgent need for technology transfer from the international community as a means of ensuring fuller and more pragmatic technological developments.<br />
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<div class="wp-caption-text">Climate Vulnerable Forum 2011 Dhaka</div><div class="wp-caption-text">inauguration</div><div class="wp-caption-text"><br />
</div></div>Sheik Hasina, Honorable Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Bangladesh, addressed the delegates:<br />
<i>“Climate change caused over 300,000 additional deaths last year. We the vulnerable countries suffer the most for our limited coping capacities. Bangladesh and other vulnerable countries could not wait for international response to climate causes…we are implementing 134 climate change adaptation and mitigation action plans.”</i><br />
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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who inaugurated the conference said:<br />
“Governments [of major emitters] must lead the way to catalyze the $100 billion dollars per annum from public and private sources that was pledged to 2020. Durban must complete what was agreed last year in Cancún.”<br />
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The 19 signatory countries who adopted the declaration were: Afghanistan, Bangladesh (chair), Bhutan, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Kiribati, Madagascar, Maldives, Nepal, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Vietnam.ClimateVMonitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981180394935354609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4736421735122380390.post-41734881358035256952011-11-11T18:16:00.001+01:002011-11-11T18:18:16.414+01:00Climate Vulnerable Forum 2011, by Ross Mountain<div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Dear Friends,</span></span></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0pt 0pt 12px; padding: 0pt;"><a href="http://i1.createsend1.com/ei/r/FD/11D/D7B/csimport/smallrm.155526.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://i1.createsend1.com/ei/r/FD/11D/D7B/csimport/smallrm.155526.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">It gives me great pleasure to draw your attention in this message to an important international event that DARA is involved with: the </span></span><a href="http://dara.createsend1.com/t/r/l/ireliy/iuhdflll/i/" style="color: #44a0df; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: teal;">2011 Ministerial Meeting of the Climate Vulnerable Forum</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"> taking place in Dhaka, Bangladesh this 13 and 14 November starting Sunday.</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0pt 0pt 12px; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">DARA’s </span></span><a href="http://dara.createsend1.com/t/r/l/ireliy/iuhdflll/d/" style="color: #44a0df; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: teal;">Climate Vulnerability Initiative</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">, including our research around the human implications of climate change made public in the </span></span><a href="http://dara.createsend1.com/t/r/l/ireliy/iuhdflll/h/" style="color: #44a0df; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: teal;">Climate Vulnerability Monitor</span></a><span style="color: teal;"> </span><span style="color: black;"> <span style="color: black;">study, among others (</span></span><a href="http://dara.createsend1.com/t/r/l/ireliy/iuhdflll/k/" style="color: #44a0df; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: teal;">Executive Summary</span></a><span style="color: teal;"> </span><span style="color: black;">pdf 6.3mb<span style="color: black;">)</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">, has been supporting Bangladesh, Maldives and other Forum governments engaged in this work since mid-last year.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0pt 0pt 12px; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">The </span></span><a href="http://dara.createsend1.com/t/r/l/ireliy/iuhdflll/u/" style="color: #44a0df; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: teal;">government of Bangladesh</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"> is convening the event to address the common challenges and vision of countries highly vulnerable to climate change. Some twenty high-level delegations are attending the ministerial that aims to, among others, adopt a declaration to be taken to the Durban climate talks (COP17) and beyond. For more detailed information on the substance being tackled, please refer to the </span></span><a href="http://dara.createsend1.com/t/r/l/ireliy/iuhdflll/o/" style="color: #44a0df; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: teal;">briefing notes</span></a></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://dara.createsend1.com/t/r/l/ireliy/iuhdflll/b/" style="color: #44a0df; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: teal;"> </span></a><span style="color: black;">issued by Bangladesh which cover key findings and actions being explored in relation to vulnerability/adaptation, finance, technology and mitigation/emission reductions.</span></span> </div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0pt 0pt 12px; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">The Forum’s draft Declaration, published online </span></span><a href="http://dara.createsend1.com/t/r/l/ireliy/iuhdflll/n/" style="color: #44a0df; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: teal;">here</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">, already captures key aspects of the group´s intentions:</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0pt 0pt 12px; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">“<b>Standing indivisible</b> as we are in our determination to act to bring about a resolution to the global menace of climate change – to its causes, consequences and collateral effects, which ultimately entail ever greater human suffering, inequity and irreversible damage to the Earth..</span></span></i></span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0pt 0pt 12px; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">“<b>Deeply concerned</b> by the findings of the Climate Vulnerability Monitor 2010, as an independent study examining the current and near-term socio-economic impacts of climate change, and pointing to a large-scale and growing worldwide crisis..</span></span></i></span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0pt 0pt 12px; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">“<b>We are determined</b> to assume a principal role in securing an international partnership towards the immediate, full, sustained and long-term attainment of the objective of the UNFCCC, and demand adequate and predictable support to vulnerable countries that will enable us to make our own contribution to address the causes and consequences of climate change…”</span></span></i></span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0pt 0pt 12px; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">DARA is delighted that the Forum will be inaugurated by the Honorable Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Shiekh Hasina, and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon – a testament to the political importance of the initiative for vulnerable countries, as indeed for global climate policy. On behalf of DARA and sister organization the </span></span><a href="http://dara.createsend1.com/t/r/l/ireliy/iuhdflll/p/" style="color: #44a0df; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: teal;">Club of Madrid</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">, our Trustee José María Figueres, Former President of Costa Rica, will also be addressing delegates gathered in the Bangladesh capital.</span></span></span> </div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0pt 0pt 12px; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">For those of you not in Dhaka, I am happy to be able to invite you to follow Sunday and Monday’s proceedings via </span></span><a href="http://dara.createsend1.com/t/r/l/ireliy/iuhdflll/x/" style="color: #44a0df; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: teal;">this page on DARA’s website</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">, where key documents, photos, and videos will be posted.</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0pt 0pt 12px; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Particular thanks also goes to our development partners, the </span></span><a href="http://dara.createsend1.com/t/r/l/ireliy/iuhdflll/m/" style="color: #44a0df; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: teal;">Climate and Development Knowledge Network</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"> and the </span></span><a href="http://dara.createsend1.com/t/r/l/ireliy/iuhdflll/c/" style="color: #44a0df; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: teal;">UNDP</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">, for their vital contribution to this effort.</span></span></span> </div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0pt 0pt 12px; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Feel free to be in contact with me or my colleagues Matthew McKinnon (</span></span><a href="http://mmckinnon@daraint.org/" style="color: #44a0df; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: teal;">mmckinnon@daraint.org</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">; +34687294535) or Lucía Fernandez (</span></span><a href="http://mailto:lfernandez@daraint.org/" style="color: #44a0df; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: teal;">lfernandez@daraint.org</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">; +34629828111) for any further information.</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0pt 0pt 12px; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">We look forward to a robust outcome to the Forum, and thank you for your interest and support in making this initiative a continued success.</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0pt 0pt 12px; padding: 0pt;"></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0pt 0pt 12px; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">With warm regards,</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0pt 0pt 12px; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><br />
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<a href="http://dara.createsend1.com/t/r/l/ireliy/iuhdflll/q/" style="color: #44a0df; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: teal;">Director General of DARA</span></a></span> </div>ClimateVMonitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981180394935354609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4736421735122380390.post-31445939631201776912011-11-03T17:51:00.003+01:002011-11-09T20:38:10.526+01:00Newsletter Highlights: October 2011<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">DARA’s research on climate vulnerability indicates that the effects of climate change are more likely to have disproportionate consequences for women and children, both in terms of burden of disease, such as, malaria, malnutrition and other climate-related health problems, and also in terms of livelihoods, as women have a vital role to play in farming and agriculture in countries that present the highest vulnerability levels. Droughts and floods also pose serious effects on the lives and livelihoods of women.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">For years there has been a general consensus that humanitarian assistance must develop greater sensitivity to gender issues, both in the emergency response and in long term-recovery efforts. However, our Humanitarian Response Index, HRIresearch over the past five years in 40 crises analyzed, such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Somalia and Haiti, have clearly demonstrated that advances have been too few and too slow, despite important efforts to raise awareness of the issues.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">That is why in this year’s HRI report, to be launched in January, we turn our attention to the issue of gender in emergencies and how donor governments can better leverage their assistance to ensure gender sensitive approaches are integrated into all aspects of humanitarian action. Preliminary findings from our field surveys and interviews on donor practices show that much more needs to be done by humanitarian agencies to assure gender is properly addressed in their programmes, and by donors, to monitor that their funding and support are utilized in ways that guarantee the different needs of all of the affected population are met.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">While the majority of the DevelopmentCo-operation Directorate, OECD DACdonors- 61% according to our figures- have gender policies, very few actually monitor and follow-up with their partners in the field on how gender is integrated into programming. Similarly, many of the donors and humanitarian organizations we interviewed saw initiatives like the gender marker as a bureaucratic procedure (“ticking the boxes”) rather than a basic and essential step in ensuring that humanitarian assistance is non-discriminatory, and allocated on the basis of needs.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">At the very minimum, humanitarian organizations and donors should require sex and age disaggregated data to show how programmes address different needs. But they should go beyond this, and realize that gender sensitive analysis is not only about aid quality, it is about aid efficiency. Actively promoting appropriate women’s participation in all stages of programming and verifying that the response is actually adapted to the different population groups is also a must. Without properly understanding the different needs of women, girls, men and boys, humanitarian assistance cannot meet the different needs of the affected population.</span>ClimateVMonitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981180394935354609noreply@blogger.com0