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The rocky road from Bali to Copenhagen

09.07.2008 At the Copenhagen climate change conference (December 2009), there will be an unprecedented effort to secure the cooperation of all nations – rich and poor, developing and developed – in a just and effective climate deal. But chances of success are not high, writes Isabel Hilton.
From: chinadialogue

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Related topics/regions: [Denmark] [Politics] [Climate change]

Image: The Bali conference was tricky enough

New vision of development needed, UN told

03.07.2008 The world’s most critical environmental and social problems will be solved only by "a new vision of development", a development group told a meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Council in New York yesterday.

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From: Progressio
Related topics/regions: [Civil society] [Development]

Against all odds

01.07.2008 You are living in great danger and must flee your country. Will you survive? Test yourself.

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From: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Internet] [Refugees]

Image: Zbigniew, a known activist in Solidarity in Poland, arrived in Chicago in 1982. "I am thankful to have escaped and to be living in the United States."