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	<title>Africa Climate Debate &#187; Carbon Cycle</title>
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		<title>Africa skeptical over funds to combat global warming</title>
		<link>http://africaclimate.org/2010/05/11/africa-skeptical-over-funds-to-combat-global-warming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 18:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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Africa on Tuesday expressed doubt over the capacity of developed nations to keep their financial commitments made during last years Copenhagen summit to help poor countries deal with climate change.&#8221;It;s primordial to know whether the financial pledges will be kept. Doubts have been expressed and we have indications that these doubts are justified,&#8221; Ethiopian Prime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>..: Ristorante Mystica :.. Iceland volcano panic button</title>
		<link>http://africaclimate.org/2010/04/15/ristorante-mystica-iceland-volcano-panic-button/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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”For an Icelandic volcano this was a relatively small eruption, but there are fears that it could set off the nearby Katla volcano, a far more violent beast capable of inflicting immense damage.
The precedents are not good. In the past 1,000 years, Eyjafjallajökull has erupted three times, in AD920, 1612 and 1821, and each time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bovine gases don&#8217;t contribute to global warming after all, study says</title>
		<link>http://africaclimate.org/2010/04/10/bovine-gases-dont-contribute-to-global-warming-after-all-study-says/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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The study didn’t factor in the methane produced by cattle or the carbon dioxide as soil erodes, either. All in all, Butterbach-Bahl notes that while his research doesn’t reverse the notion that red meat consumption should be reduced, it does demonstrate that grazing cows aren’t always to blame for global warming.

After carbon dioxide and methane, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN Climate Process ‘Needs a Good Spanking,’ Yvo de Boer Says &#8211; BusinessWeek</title>
		<link>http://africaclimate.org/2010/03/05/un-climate-process-%e2%80%98needs-a-good-spanking%e2%80%99-yvo-de-boer-says-businessweek/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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“More meetings does not mean success,” de Boer, who steps down from his UN post on July 1, said today at the Carbon Market Insights conference in Amsterdam. “We need to get down to business.”
The Copenhagen summit in December 2009 was a failure even though it was preceded by many meetings, de Boer said. While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environmental Legislation: Biochar: Examination of an Emerging Concept to Mitigate Climate Change</title>
		<link>http://africaclimate.org/2010/02/09/environmental-legislation-biochar-examination-of-an-emerging-concept-to-mitigate-climate-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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Biochar has multiple potential environmental benefits, foremost the potential to sequester carbon in the soil for hundreds to thousands of years at an estimate. Studies suggest that crop yields can increase as a result of applying biochar as a soil amendment. Some contend that biochar has value as an immediate climate change mitigation strategy. Scientific [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change: Who will ring the bell?</title>
		<link>http://africaclimate.org/2009/10/06/indigenous-knowledge-and-climate-change-who-will-ring-the-bell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kuria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ October 16, 2009; ] Contrary to popular perception, indigenous or local communities have intimate knowledge of their environment (soils, water, forest, flora, fauna, etc), and most of their decisions and actions are informed by this knowledge-base.
The landscape within which indigenous knowledge can efficiently be used to support adaptation and mitigation action is heavily degraded, this is a reality we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Knowledge, oppression and Climate Change</title>
		<link>http://africaclimate.org/2009/07/09/knowledge-oppressio-and-climate-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CXL</dc:creator>
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It is true that democracy based on majority view is also a form of oppresion especially against minorities.  The same can be said about knowledge.  Knowledge consolidated in the hands and minds of a few,  can result in a legitimised form of oppression.  This is becoming evident in the area of climate change  within the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Developed countries must address global warming to prevent disease, hunger in developing world &#8211; Udongo</title>
		<link>http://africaclimate.org/2009/07/08/developed-countries-must-address-global-warming-to-prevent-disease-hunger-in-developing-world-udongo/</link>
		<comments>http://africaclimate.org/2009/07/08/developed-countries-must-address-global-warming-to-prevent-disease-hunger-in-developing-world-udongo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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Developed countries must address global warming to prevent disease, hunger in developing world
7. July 2009 20:54
Pollution from the world’s wealthiest countries is spreading disease and hunger in developing countries, according to a new Oxfam International report, which calls on developed countries to address global warming when G8 leaders meet in Italy, the Globe and Mail [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Statement to the Special AMCEN Session on Climate change</title>
		<link>http://africaclimate.org/2009/06/08/statement-to-the-special-amcen-session-on-climate-change/</link>
		<comments>http://africaclimate.org/2009/06/08/statement-to-the-special-amcen-session-on-climate-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kuria</dc:creator>
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PAN AFRICAN CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE
Nairobi, Kenya, 29 May 2009
 by Mithika Mwenda, PACJA Coordinator
Your Excellency the President of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment;
Distinguished Delegates;
The able Secretariat of UNEP/ROA;
Ladies and Gentlemen;
The Pan African Climate Justice Alliance is delighted to have the opportunity to address this important Forum in such a historic and important year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Youth Statement to the 3rd Special Session of AMCEN on Climate Change (Nairobi, Kenya. 25 &#8211; 29 May 2009)</title>
		<link>http://africaclimate.org/2009/06/07/youth-statement-to-the-3rd-special-session-of-amcen-on-climate-change-nairobi-kenya-25-29-may-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kuria</dc:creator>
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We the African youth, under the auspices of the Africa Youth Initiative on Climate Change, present this statement to the 3rd Special Session of AMCEN on Climate Change.
Deeply concerned by the havoc wrecked by climate change and variability on African Societies with the consequent exacerbation of poverty, food insecurity, deterioration of health and a general [...]]]></description>
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