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The World Bank Report about Childhood Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa

Fri, 2013-09-13 22:10 — Elhadj Drame

World Bank Group recently reported major decrease in childhood diseases in sub-Saharan Africa. Loss of health due to diarrheal diseases dropped 34% between 1990 and 2010, lower respiratory infections (LRIs) such as pneumonia dropped 22%, and protein-energy malnutrition was down 17%. Several countries documented striking progress, with Malawi reducing diarrheal diseases by 65%, Burundi decreasing LRIs by 44%, and Benin reducing measles by 84% during this time. Despite this progress, childhood diseases remain major threat in that region. Please click here for more information.

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Wind at parity with new coal in India, solar to join by 2018: HSBC

Thu, 2013-07-18 10:13 — Gina Angiola

By Sophie Vorrath on 11 July 2013

Wind energy is now cost competitive with new-build coal capacity in India, and solar is likely to follow suit sometime between 2016-18, according to a report by HSBC.

The report on India Renewables, Good bye winter, hello spring, published on April 30, says the growing cost-competitiveness of renewable energy with new-build coal – and the arrival of wind parity, despite the upper wind FiT range being around 15 per cent lower than the upper tariff range for new coal capacity (see chart 3 below) – is helping to drive strong renewables growth on the sub-continent.

India’s share of renewable generation in the total electricity mix increased to around 6 per cent in the 2012/13 financial year – an amount the government is hoping to grow to 20 per cent by the end of 2020, to help meet the nation’s a peak power deficit of 12GW, or around 9 per cent of its demand....

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Peru Unveils Plan to Use Solar Panels to Provide Electricity to 2 Million People

Wed, 2013-07-10 18:18 — Gina Angiola

Latin American Herald Tribune

July 10,2013

LIMA – The National Photovoltaic Household Electrification Program will benefit more than 2 million people in Peru, Energy and Mining Minister Jorge Merino said.

The program will provide electricity to poor households using solar panels, Merino said.

The first phase of the program will focus on providing solar panels to 500,000 extremely poor households in areas that lack access to the power grid.

Bidding will be opened later for contractors to install the rest of the panels, Merino said.

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The Millennium Development Goals Report - 2013
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Millennium Development Goals are Within Reach, but Stronger Efforts Needed – UN Report

Sat, 2013-07-06 11:59 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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1 July 2013 – Thirteen years after the world set the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), countries have made big strides to meet the eight anti-poverty targets by their 2015 deadline, says a United Nations report released today, which stresses that the unmet goals are still within reach, but nations need to step up their efforts to achieve them.

“In more than a decade of experience in working towards the MDGs, we have learned that focused global development efforts can make a difference,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in the report's foreword, in which he urges for accelerated action to close development gaps.

“Now is the time to step up our efforts to build a more just, secure and sustainable future for all.”

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Developing a Conakry Resilience System

Thu, 2013-07-04 12:54 — mdmcdonald

The following posts focus on aspects of how to develop a Conakry Resilience System.

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Background on Guinea

Thu, 2013-07-04 12:52 — mdmcdonald

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Renewables 2013 - Global Status Report
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A Sustainable Energy Future is Within Our Grasp

Mon, 2013-07-01 20:03 — Kathy Gilbeaux

internationalrivers.org - June 25, 2013
by Susanne Wong and Peter Bosshard

The staggering growth in renewable energy has the potential to fundamentally change the way we generate and use power. Previously dismissed as marginal technologies, renewables have become “increasingly mainstream and competitive with conventional energy sources.” This is the conclusion of a new report on the global status of renewable energies by the REN21 Network.

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ABOUT - REN21 - http://www.ren21.net/

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Sustainable Supply Chain Summit - October 7-8, 2013 - London

Sun, 2013-06-30 21:40 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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Drive CR, transparency and cost efficiency down your value chain through better engagement with your suppliers and internal decision makers

The 8th annual Sustainable Supply Chain Summit, 150 attendees, 25+ corporate top executives, sharing best practice and discussing the ways to address the biggest supply chain challenges in 2013.

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Why Regional Seed Matters

Thu, 2013-06-20 16:59 — Maeryn Obley

Petra is thrilled to be surrounded by gold medal tomatoes, tome verde tomatillos and black beauty eggplant: all are adapting well to the Finger Lakes!

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fruitionseeds.wordpress.com - June 13th, 2013

Each seed tells the story of its entire life history, millions of years in the making. A few seeds, in a single generation, may travel the globe. Most will stay within their watershed and most likely, their microclimate. In this way, seeds become profoundly adapted to place.

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