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Resources 14 Dec 2010
Fighting Poverty Can Save Energy, Nicaragua Project Shows
In two small villages on Nicaragua’s Mosquito Coast, a project to improve electricity service had a remarkable side benefit—household energy use actually dropped nearly 30... more »
22 Sep 2010
The Solvable Problem of Energy Poverty
The United Nations’ goals for fighting extreme poverty—an effort being assessed at a summit this week in New York—will fall short unless nations also work to bring electricity... more »
31 Aug 2010
The Asian Floods—Signs of Climate Catastrophes to Come?
They haven't gotten anywhere near the attention they deserve, but the floods that have struck much of Asia over the past couple of weeks may be... more »
22 Jul 2010
Russia swelters in heatwave, many crops destroyed
Soaring temperatures across large swathes of Russia have destroyed nearly 10 million hectares of crops and prompted a state of emergency to be declared in 17 regions. ... more »
10 May 2010
Women hit by climate change head to Capitol Hill
MARCH 8, 2010, WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Women hit hard by the effects of climate change -- drought, floods, sea level rise and crop failure -- gathered on... more »
14 May 2010
Climate Change and Poverty
When the Department for International Development (DFID) was set up in 1997, it made fighting world poverty its top priority. This marked a turning point for Britain’s... more »
25 Feb 2010
Eco-Bargain: Save Animals, Reduce Poverty
If you want to protect wildlife in developing countries, the conventional wisdom has long been that you put the animals in a well-run reserve and safeguard it... more »
01 Aug 2009
One Billion People Go Hungry - Food, Funds in Short Supply
WASHINGTON, DC, July 31, 2009 (ENS) - A billion people around the world are going hungry every day, but the world's response to their urgent... more »
08 Jan 2009
Green efforts embrace poor; More areas are updating housing to cut energy use and utility bills
Low-income people who live in old or flimsy housing are becoming prime targets for cities and groups intent on slashing energy use. Recent efforts in... more »
08 Jan 2009
Habitat goes green in home for refugees
After 10 years of living in African refugee camps and two years in a one-bedroom apartment, Baja Dalla and his family soon will have a... more »
07 Dec 2008
UNDP's Poverty-Environment Partnership (PEP)
The Poverty-Environment Partnership (PEP) is an informal network of development agencies that aims to address key poverty-environment issues within the framework of international efforts to... more »
07 Dec 2008
UNEP's Understanding Poverty and the Environment
The Environment Times, first published in 2002 by GRID-Arendal, is a newspaper detailing the linkages between environment and other issues presented in journalistic stories, pictures... more »
10 Nov 2008
Growing slums 'face water crisis'
Rapid urbanisation in developing nations threatens to trigger a water and sanitation crisis in quickly expanding slums, a report has warned. Charity WaterAid said chronic... more »
25 Mar 2008
The Millenium Campaign. End poverty by 2015.
This is the historic promise 189 world leaders made at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000 when they signed onto the Millennium Declaration and... more »
25 Mar 2008
The Millenium Development Goals – What is it?
The MDGs represent a global partnership that has grown from the commitments and targets established at the world summits of the 1990s. Responding to the world's... more »