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By: John D. Liu,
Assistant Professor, George Mason University, Center for Climate and Society

What we have seen in observing and documenting pockets of poverty in various places around the world is that ecological degradation and grinding poverty go hand in hand. In order to address one it is necessary to address the other as well. Now because of global disruptions to ecosystems (e.g. climate change) we can see that poverty and degradation somewhere is poverty and degradation everywhere.

As the world moves toward Copenhagen and I hear the main
discussion about enhanced CDM, REDD, CCS, Geo-engineering, Cap
and Trade and the rest, I'm not left with a feeling of
confidence and I don't know anyone who is. It seems as if these
measures will fail and I don't actually see how they could
succeed because they all leave the fundamental underlying causes
of the problem intact.

This makes me philosophical about Earth's Hope.

What working on "Earth's Hope" has shown me is that the earth's
ecosystems have suffered from understandable impacts that

You are welcome to this blog, which is dedicated to the experience, issues raised and lessons learnt from the journalists’ training I have undertaken with the Uganda Media Development Foundation (UMDF) on environmental and climate change training.
More information on this project and photos can be found at estanakkazi@blogspot.com

I am facilitating workshops in over 35 districts in Uganda but with 10 stations where journalists converge to train. This blog is where am documenting some of my experiences and how much journalists know and report on the environment and climate change.

African governments are continuing to join the worldwide rush to develop biofuels in response to record oil prices. Their leaders perceive opportunities for their country’s energy security and agricultural revitalization. They also want to transform the source of rural energy supply from biomass away from dung and wood toward biofuels. Some countries plan to benefit from biofuels through clean development mechanisms (CDMs) for climate change mitigation (e.g., reducing carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas).

Floods have again hit Uganda cutting off three districts in the remote Karamoja region in northeastern Uganda.
Two soldiers who were in the region on a disamament excecise have died as a result of the floods after they were swept away while trying to cross overflooded rivers.
The floods have also affected the districts of Tororo, Soroti and Nebbi.
Some schools in Tororo have been closed while in Nebbi district, 150 prisoners had to be relocated after their prison got submerged

Floods have again hit Uganda cutting off three districts in the remote Karamoja region in northeastern Uganda.
Two soldiers who were in the region on a disamament excecise have died as a result of the floods after they were swept away while trying to cross overflooded rivers.
The floods have also affected the districts of Tororo, Soroti and Nebbi.
Some schools in Tororo have been closed while in Nebbi district, 150 prisoners had to be relocated after their prison got submerged

Global forest plan could boost fight against poverty and climate change

Hundreds of experts call for new kind of forest partnership

An emerging initiative could pave the way for fundamental change in the way forests are managed, boosting efforts to fight both poverty and climate change, says research published today by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).

For those who fervently follow global warming to the secret labyrinths of the White House, we all know what the professional spinners did with that email attachment from the Environmental Protection Agency about how greenhouse gases were polluting the environment and should be checked.

Environmental groups have been warning for years that global climate change could make already-tense parts of the world even worse, and even spark whole new conflicts. Now, the nation's spies are saying pretty much the same thing.

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