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Geopolitics and Financial Crisis Change the Architecture of Development Cooperation
(Bonn, 12.12.2011) Assessment of the 4th High Level Conference on Aid Effevtivenss in Busan, South Korea, 29.11. -1.12.2011- A Civil Society Perspective
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Nothing About Us, Without Us
(Geneva, 30.11.2011) Negotiations in Busan on the Outcome Document have come to a deadlock for civil society. The Busan Outcome Document, as it stands now, has been watered down for the sake of China who is reluctant to join in the proposed new Global Partnership for Effective Development. The private sector wants all the advantages, but does not want to share the risk. And civil society, the main carrier of development efforts on the ground, is struggling to get its voice heard in the final negotiations.
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FINAL CALL TO DURBAN - Call for an open debate on climate justice in tourism
(24/11/2011) In the run-up to the climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa, an international alliance of civil society organisations has called upon negotiators to seriously and objectively address the role of tourism. The alliance points out that it is irresponsible to exclude aviation on the grounds that tourism is an "engine of development" and argues that globally binding negotiations on aviation emissions will, if managed properly, enhance rather than undermine poverty reduction.
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“Rio +20” as a guide for the upcoming Reform of the EU´s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
Twenty years ago, in June 1992, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, UNCED (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development) approved two Conventions (on Biodiversity and Climate Change), as well as Agenda 21 on Sustainable Development in the 21st century. Chapter 14 of this Agenda refers to Agriculture and Rural Development.
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Civil Society Call: Energy for All 2030
(Bonn, 10.10.2011) Civil society organisations from Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa have sent in Octobre 2011 a call to EU leaders to commit to eradicating energy poverty and achieving universal energy access by 2030. The call focuses particularly on Sub-Saharan Africa, as the region most acutely affected. The call asks the EU to deliver the quantity and quality of EU funding to make this a reality.
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