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19.08.2009 A Global Water Roundtable has been established to develop global standards for freshwater stewardship.
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Greenpeace drops rocks in the Lilla Middelgrund in the Kattegat to thwart trawlers,
14.08.2009 Greenpeace has been placing rocks on the sea floor in order to stop destructive bottom trawling in Sweden.
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From: Greenpeace International
Image: Greenpeace drops rocks in the Lilla Middelgrund in the Kattegat to thwart trawlers,
30.11.2007 Sweden tops a new Humanitarian Response Index, followed by Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and the European Commission.
From: Dara International
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Related topics/regions: [Norway] [Netherlands] [Europe]
28.11.2007 The Security Council should target people and organisations that help violate UN arms embargoes and strengthen action against arms brokers, according to the first analysis of the world body's 27 embargoes since 1990.
From: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
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Angela Merkel, the first female Chancellor of Germany.
22.08.2007 Despite countless global impediments to women's political participation and representation, activists are working tirelessly to secure unbiased opportunities for election and equal rates of political representation for women and men alike.
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From: OneWorld US
Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Europe] [Albania] [Kenya] [Nepal] [Rwanda] [Tanzania] [Civil rights] [Gender] [Activism] [Democracy] [Governance]
Image: Angela Merkel, the first female Chancellor of Germany. © North-South Centre of the Council of Europe
Water Carrier
15.08.2007 STOCKHOLM, Aug 14 (IPS) - The world is on the verge of "a new and more serious era of water scarcity" than ever before, is the ominous warning coming out of an international water conference here.
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From: Inter Press Service (IPS)
Related topics/regions: [Aid] [Water/sanitation]
Image: Water Carrier © WaterAid
Afghan refugee boys in Pakistan.
08.08.2007 COPENHAGEN, Aug 8 (OneWorld) - Throughout the past century, Scandinavian countries have been internationally respected for keeping their doors open to those fleeing wars and bloody conflicts at home. But recent policy decisions on immigration and asylum indicate that change may be in the offing.
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From: OneWorld US
Related topics/regions: [Iraq] [Denmark] [Afghanistan] [Refugees] [Human rights] [Geopolitics] [Conflict]
Image: Afghan refugee boys in Pakistan. © Satomi Kato
08.03.2007 After a long campaign by environmentalists, Swedish supermarkets are now free from frozen Baltic cod, Greenpeace said yesterday.
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From: Greenpeace International
19.01.2007 from TerraDaily:
"We can say that 75 percent of the change is due to the emergence of greenhouse gases," claims ecology and environmental science professor.
Image: Treeline in the Swedish countryside

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25.08.2006 Professor Asit K. Biswas, a tireless water proponent who constantly challenges the "status quo", received the 2006 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate from Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden. Professor Biswas is an Indian-born Canadian citizen and president of the Mexico City-based Third World Centre for Water Management.
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Related topics/regions: [Water/sanitation] [Environment]
Traffic congestion in India
10.08.2006 from TerraBlog:
First London and now Stockholm. 'Perhaps the most appealing aspect of these schemes is that they appear to work.'
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Related topics/regions: [Cities] [Transport]
Image: Traffic congestion in India © Centre for Science and Environment
04.05.2006 Twenty years after Sweden alerted the world to the meltdown at Chernobyl, it aims to phase out nuclear power and end dependency on fossil fuels, putting the country in the vanguard of green energy policy.
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From: People & the Planet
04.04.2006 The Swedish Parliament administration has changed its decision to no longer allow the presentation of the Right Livelihood Award (the "Alternative Nobel Prize") in parliament.
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Oil-free, nuclear-free energy
08.02.2006 Sweden is to take the biggest energy step of any advanced Western economy by trying to wean itself off oil completely within 15 years - without building a new generation of nuclear power stations.
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From: Guardian Unlimited
Related topics/regions: [Energy]
Image: Oil-free, nuclear-free energy
25.01.2006 After an exposure on Swedish TV, Scandinavian frozen food giant Findus has agreed to stop selling illegally caught fish.
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From: Greenpeace International
Related topics/regions: [Fisheries]
24.01.2006 Britain is ranked fifth best in the world at tackling domestic and global environmental problems - behind New Zealand, Sweden, Finland and the Czech Republic - in performance league tables to be launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this week.
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From: Guardian Unlimited
Related topics/regions: [Finland] [Denmark] [Environment]
23.01.2006 The Swedish Minister for Sustainable Development, Mona Sahlin, has announced plans to break the country's dependence on oil by 2020.
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Related topics/regions: [Energy] [Climate change]
09.01.2006 In the Government communication Digital radio distribution (Comm. 2005/06:66), the Government notes that the distribution of radio is being further digitalised.
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Related topics/regions: [Communication] [ICT]
26.12.2005 “Beyond the River – Sharing Benefits and Responsibilities” is the theme of the 2006 World Water Week in Stockholm, which takes place August 20-26, 2006, and will address livelihood improvement, land-based activities within a river basin, and society’s ability to cope with natural disasters, among other aspects.
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Related topics/regions: [Environment] [ICT]
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