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Planète Jeunesse : La jeunesse bouge le monde ... 3 jeunes en font le tour!
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Planet Youth: Youth moves the world… 3 young people make the turn of it!
Automatically translated into English thanks to WorldLingo
“Planet Youth, it is a project imagined by three students of the Central School of Electronics (ECE) who had a little the head in the voyages. During several months, in university exchange in Australia or in Canada, we shared the life of young people of the whole world. Marked by these environments “D? Spanish inn”, the idea of a turn of the world of youth came quite naturally and was concretized month in month.

Youth and voyages, here are our motivations, our engines which pushed us to assemble this adventure. Here principal conducting wire of our odyssey? “


http://www.planete-jeunesse.fr/


July 29, 2008 | 3:09 PM Comments  0 comments

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1re École d’été de l’Unité jeunesse de la Francophonie sur l’environnement et le développement
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1st School D? summer of L? Unit youth of the Francophonie on L? environment and the development
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The 1st School D? summer of L? Unit youth of the Francophonie on L? will environment and the development be held of with L? Hotel Ibis Moussafir Casablanca City Center, in Morocco, of the 21 at July 25, 2008. Organized by L? Unit youth of L? International organization of the Francophonie and L? Institute of L? energy and of L? environment of Francophonie (IEPF), L? event will also include the meeting of launching of work of the 2nd committee of “young people reporters” of Médiaterre.

L? school D? will summer include/understand a session D? initiation with L? Saving in L? environment and a formation on L? animation of the Gate young people of Médiaterre. L? does event target of 30 young actors of the development of L? spaces French-speaking (North Africa, Africa of L? West, Africa Central, Indian Ocean, Asia, Caribbean, North America and Europe). It aims at developing among young French-speaking people of the aptitudes for:
· to insert in a network of division D? information on the development durable (Médiaterre, Resourcefulness? French-speaking information world);
· to identify the opportunities offered by L? aggregate environment in terms of layer D? employment (trades of L? environment)
· S? to register in the chain of decision-making on the assembly and the realization of environmental projects.

Let us note what the Médiaterre committee has for principal mission D? to animate the Gate “young people” of Médiaterre http://www.mediaterre.org/jeunes/. Are the members the voluntary ones who S? engage to regularly publish dispatches on the Gate young people of Médiaterre. Does posted information generally relate to L? topicality of the durable development and on the occasions for the young people in this field.

For more D? information:
Foamed IF NOT
Officer projects of co-operation
Unité youth of L? International organization of Francophonie (OIF)
Telephone : +1 506.856? 7664
Telecopier: +1 506.856 - 3879

Moussa.Sinon@francophonie.org
Moussa.Sinon@gnb.ca

http://jeunesse.francophonie.org/actualites/index.cfm?id=16752

July 29, 2008 | 2:49 PM Comments  0 comments

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Africa is approaching its ecological limits
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Why does ecological capacity matter to human development in Africa?

As the ongoing world food crises makes clear, human welfare is critically linked to mankind’s use and stewardship of biological resources. Nowhere is this more true than in Africa – a region with tremendous natural wealth, yet which often suffers first and most tragically when humanity’s demand on nature exceeds what nature can provide.

There are many issues facing the African continent that are linked to ecological assets, including population growth, food security, political instability, and inequitable access to resources. Despite these challenges there are many opportunities for nations to improve their quality of life while maintaining their ecological assets. As individuals, organizations, countries and regions work on advancing human development, decision-makers will need solid information and metrics in order to set goals and track progress towards sustainable development. Measures such as the Ecological Footprint are critical to setting targets and managing performance-based development projects.

Global Footprint Network’s Africa Project

To explore how ecological limits apply and relate to human development, Global Footprint Network and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation have joined forces on a multi-phase initiative focused on Africa.

On June 9, 2008 at the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment in Johannesburg, Global Footprint Network in conjunction with SDC and WWF International, released the first-ever detailed look at the Ecological Footprints of African nations and the trends at play over the last few decades.

Africa: Ecological Footprint and Human Well-Being offers an in-depth look at Africa’s ecological resources and the role those resources can play in advancing the region’s human development goals – or, if mismanaged, in thwarting them.

“There is a strong international commitment to improving human wellbeing in Africa and advancing the Millennium Development Goals to reduce poverty, hunger and disease,” said Global Footprint Network Executive Director, Mathis Wackernagel. “Yet, to advance these critical goals and produce lasting success, we need to work with, rather than against, ecological budget constraints. If development ignores the limits of our natural resources, the gains that are made cannot persist, and the most vulnerable people such as the rural poor will be the first to suffer the horrendous consequences of our resource blunder.”

Africa: Ecological Footprint and Human Well-Being helps chart a course for progress by analyzing the region’s ecological assets and pressures. It does this in part by examining the continent’s as well as individual countries’ Ecological Footprint -- the amount of productive land and sea it takes to produce what a population consumes and absorb its waste. “There are huge opportunities to improve well-being in lasting ways while staying within our ecological constraints,” Wackernagel continued. Among these are giving women access to health choices, education and economic opportunities; designing infrastructure that will make cities more resilient to resource scarcities; and leapfrogging directly to the most resource-efficient technologies.

Download the report

Africa: Ecological Footprint and Human Well-Being (1.73 mb download)

Our Africa report is the result of a multi-year project focused on learning from our partners about the factors at play in human development As a precursor to the report, we published our findings in a fact book, Africa's Ecological Footprint: Human Well-Being and Biological Capital Factbook Additionally, we engaged with our African partners in workshops held in Pretoria, Nairobi, Dakar, and Algiers who have first hand experience with the on-the-ground needs in Africa.


http://www.footprintnetwork.org/

July 12, 2008 | 7:41 PM Comments  0 comments

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New UN atlas shows effects of climate change in Africa
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A new atlas has been unveiled by UNEP showing the dramatic effects of climate change. The publication features over 300 satellite images taken in every country in Africa .The 'before' and 'after' photographs, some of which span a 35-year period, offer striking snapshots of environmental changes across the continent.

Visit the website : http://na.unep.net/atlas/AfricaAtlas/

July 12, 2008 | 7:05 PM Comments  0 comments

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Africa Carbon Forum - 3 to 5 September in Dakar, Senegal
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BACKGROUND

At COP13 in Bali, the UNFCCC Secretariat announced its intent to convene the 1st Africa Carbon Forum, in collaboration with the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) and the partner agencies of the Nairobi Framework, including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), The World Bank and the African Development Bank. The Nairobi Framework was initiated with the specific target of helping developing countries, especially those in sub-Saharan Africa, to improve their level of participation in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).


OBJECTIVE

This event will bring together representatives from designated national authorities (DNA), national focal points (NFP), representatives from several UN agencies, governments and the private sector.

The Africa Carbon Forum is a platform that will strengthen links between CDM project developers and the region’s investment community, provide opportunities for DNA representatives to exchange views and share their experiences relating to the CDM, while facilitating knowledge sharing and transactions between project sponsors and global carbon offset credit buyers.

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