Nepal’s forests to be handed over to local communities
Hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest are to be handed over to Nepal ’s rural poor, with help from a £40 million programme from the Department for International Development (DFID).
The ten-year National Forestry Programme will give Nepalese communities ownership of the thousands of hectares of forest currently under government control, helping some of the world’s poorest people to earn an income from their natural resources and put a stop to the rampant deforestation currently blighting the country.
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$30bn climate change aid needed for poor nations
Gordon Brown has told the United Nations that $30 billion will be needed for the world’s poorest countries to deal with the effects of climate change.
Speaking in New York, the UK Prime Minister said international public finance should meet a significant proportion of this figure.
Mr Brown was among world leaders attending a climate change summit called by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon ahead of December’s conference in Copenhagen.
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Trespass against climate change
Christian Aid marked the 100 day countdown to December’s crucial UN climate change summit in Copenhagen on Friday night by staging a Mass Visual Trespass at an East Shropshire power plant.
Images of Christian Aid supporters holding up climate justice messages directed at Prime Minister Gordon Brown were beamed onto a cooling tower at the E.ON power station in Ironbridge, Shropshire .
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Tags: brown, campaign, christian aid, climate, climate change, drought, environment, flood, gordon, kyoto, storms, trespass
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