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Population growth, the increasing consumption of a global elite, and an international legal system skewed in favour of largescale investors are fuelling a worldwide rush for land that is unfolding faster than previously thought and is likely to continue,...
Lire la suiteWe all like reports of dramatic medical and scientific breakthroughs but the reality is that most developments are incremental. As a result, important issues can get overlooked. Take malaria. Deaths from the parasitic infection - which is spread by the...
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Climate negotiators agreed a pact on Sunday that would for the first time force all the biggest polluters to take action on greenhouse gas emissions, but critics said the action plan was not aggressive enough to slow the pace of global warming. The package...
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The chance of a binding new climate deal involving the world's biggest greenhouse-gas emitters, China, the US and India, looks increasingly unlikely as the UN climate conference in Durban draws to a close today. In an outcome that would dash the hopes...
Lire la suiteNegotiators are close to agreeing the shape of a Green Climate Fund, which is designed to help poor nations tackle global warming and nudge them towards a new global effort to fight climate change. Rich countries have pledged up to $100 billion a year...
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Global Witness a annoncé aujourd’hui sa décision de quitter le Processus de Kimberley, dispositif international de certification instauré dans le but d’éliminer le commerce de diamants du sang. En refusant d’évoluer et de se pencher sur les liens inéluctables...
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Scientists have developed a vaccine that protects mice against a deadly form of the Ebola virus. First identified in 1976, Ebola fever kills more than 90% of the people it infects. The researchers say that this is the first Ebola vaccine to remain viable...
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Après les discussions entre experts, les représentants des 194 pays à la conférence des Nations unies sur le climat ont entamé ce lundi 5 décembre les négociations au niveau politique. Seulement une quinzaine de chefs d'Etat ont fait le déplacement en...
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Ce 1er décembre 2011, c’est la 24e Journée mondiale de lutte contre le sida. La maladie progresse de moins en moins vite à travers le monde, notamment grâce à une généralisation des traitements contre le VIH. Mais avec 34 millions de personnes qui vivent...
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Research and development (R&D) incentives are an important policy instrument to help countries adapt to climate change, says a report released yesterday (24 November). Without "more ambitious policies", greenhouse gas emissions will increase to almost...
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Global climate talks need to focus on the growing threat from extreme weather and shift away from political squabbles that hobble progress towards a tougher pact to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, the head of the U.N. climate panel said. Negotiators...
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Des cérémonies ont lieu aujourd'hui un peu partout dans le monde pour commémorer le jour du Souvenir, dédié à la mémoire de tous ceux qui sont morts au combat. Le premier ministre Stephen Harper et le gouverneur général David Johnston participeront ce...
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En Afrique de l'Ouest, les albinos subissent agressions verbales et même physiques. Sur le plan professionnel, leur intégration a encore du mal à se faire dans certains pays d’Afrique francophone. Afin de réfléchir sur les stratégies pour sortir de cette...
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Bill Gates has called on world leaders to invest more in innovation for development, describing innovation as the "most powerful force for change in the world". "Innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development," Gates, founder of the computing...
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As portions of the Arab world struggle to extinguish decades of oppression and dictorial rule, the rights and opportunities for women in these societies stand at a delicate precipice, U.S. State Department officials told a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee...
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