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The Cancun Agreements The sixteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC and the sixth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol took place in Cancun and was hosted by the Government of Mexico. Also sitting were the thirty-third sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), the fifteenth session of the Ad hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP), and the thirteenth session of the Ad hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA).
Cancun Climate Change Conference - November 2010
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Zai in Sahel region. A traditional farming practice to face desertification and climate change
In the West Sahel Region, particularly in Burkina Faso (former Alto Volta), Mali and Niger local cultivation techniques used by farmers for centuries have been adapted to the new climate conditions. Sahelian farmers dig holes called Zai with dimensions varying with the type of soil. Pits are dug during the dry season from November until May and the number of Zai pits per hectare varies from 12,000 to 25,000.(The number of zai per hectare and their dimensions determine how much water they harvest. The bigger the number and the smaller their size, the less water they each harvest.) After digging the pits, composted organic matter is added and after the first rainfall, the matter is covered with a thin layer of soil and the seeds placed in the middle of the pit.
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The United Nations Climate Change Conference, Durban 2011, delivered a breakthrough on the international community's response to climate change. In the second largest meeting of its kind, the negotiations advanced, in a balanced fashion, the implementation of the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol, the Bali Action Plan , and the Cancun Agreements . The outcomes included a decision by Parties to adopt a universal legal agreement on climate change as soon as possible, and no later than 2015. The President of COP17/CMP7 Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said: "What we have achieved in Durban will play a central role in saving tomorrow, today." The Durban Conference comprised:
Durban Climate Change Conference - November 2011
Rio de Janeiro to set up carbon trading exchange
* Rio to set up carbon credit exchange on Tuesday * To trade carbon, other pollutants to meet Rio targets * Trading likely to begin in 2013 By Peter Murphy BRASILIA (Reuters) - Rio de Janeiro state will set up Brazil's first carbon exchange on Tuesday that beginning in 2013 will allow businesses to trade credits to comply with mandatory pollution limits Rio plans to introduce in 2012, the state's environment department said on Monday. From now until when trading is expected to begin in 2013, the exchange will create a trading platform and define contract criteria.
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This case is available at: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/vic/V… In this case the Applicant, Mr Hooper, lodged an application with Casey City Council for 22 dwellings to be built on the South Gippsland Highway. The subject site and neighbouring land came within a Land Subject to Inundation Overlay, necessitating a permit for buildings and works.
The Electronic Discussion Group (EDG), or "Forumtree", is a discussion forum set up to facilitate: distribution of documents prior to TFI expert meetings; on-line discussion by experts participating in a specific TFI project. In principle, only participants in a specific expert meeting or project under the TFI have access to the forum relevant to that topic. The former EDG was established in January 2000 and used until June 2005.
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Climate Impacts Threaten to Reverse Two Decades of Progress in Reducing Global Poverty The gains in poverty reduction made in the past 20 years could be halted or reversed by climate change impacts, according to the United Nations Development Programme 2013 Human Development Report, The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World . The report, released March 14, calculates that the share of the world's people living in extreme poverty fell from 43 percent in 1990 to 22 percent in 2008. Gains were made in 40 developing countries, including 500 million people in China alone.
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