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to OneWorld South Asia. Bringing together a network
of people and groups working for human rights and sustainable
development from across the globe.
South Asia, a potential hotspot for global warming, is open to social vulnerability as future projections reveal a possible intensification of social factors and forces that create inequitable exposure to the risks and damages of climate change.
The challenge of the South is now to balance the demands for climate change mitigation and meet its development needs in the region by linking development and environment issues at this critical time.
2008-04-27 15:31:21New research predicts a rise in sea levels three times higher than that estimated by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last year. These findings, based on a model following accurate reconstruction of sea levels over past two millennia, were presented at a European Geosciences Union conference in Austria recently.
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2008-04-27 15:40:06New York: The impact of climate change could fall disproportionately on women and children, UNICEF cautioned today, on the occasion of World Health Day 2008.
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2008-04-27 16:04:46The fight against global warming will need to be propelled mainly by an alliance between progressive civil society in the developed world and mass-based movements in developing societies. People in the South are open to an alternative growth model, says Walden Bello, professor of sociology at the University of the Philippines.
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2008-04-27 16:07:49Political inaction and poor policies have turned South Asia into the world’s most disaster-prone region, says Oxfam report Rethinking disasters. The report urges governments and donors to tackle poverty, discrimination and exclusion that make people more vulnerable to disasters, while identifying core areas of action.
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OneWorld South Asia.s Seventh Annual Regional Meeting on February 8-9, 2008, at New Delhi, focused on Southern voices and perspectives on the Climate Change debate. More...
