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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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World Bank Group and International Energy Development
(Bonn/Stuttgart, 25.02.2011) Church Development Service and Bread for the World, two development agencies of the protestant churches in Germany, commissioned a study in order to get a comprehensive and critical overview about the energy lending policies and portfolio of the World Bank Group and its implication for sustainable development, poverty reduction and climate change. The study was accomplished by Heike Mainhardt-Gibbs, USA, an expert on World Bank Group strategies and policies. The study was published in 2011 and contains 60 pages plus several annexes.
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Timid hope at end of climate negotiations in Cancun
(Cancún, 13.12.10) The Cancun Agreement, adopted by the vast majority of parties at the United Nations climate change conference (COP16) in the early morning hours of 11 December, gives guarded hope to churches and civil society groups who had called for decisive action by the world's governments. In an improvement on the process that led to the much-criticized Copenhagen Accord last year, the president of the conference managed to keep the climate negotiations in the multilateral track and make some, although insufficient, steps forward.
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Faith communities stress moral dimension of climate change
(Cancún, 09.12.10) Faith communities came together to address climate change, poverty and sustainable development in a side event jointly organized by Caritas Internationalis, ACT Alliance and the World Council of Churches (WCC) at the Cancun climate summit on 7 December.
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Issuance of Toxic Carbon Credits Undermines Credibility of UNFCCC Process
(Cancún, 08.12.2010) An open letter sent by a broad coalition of green groups including CDM Watch, Greenpeace and WWF to the COP Presidency calls to rescind millions of fake HFC-23 CDM credits. Environmentalists claim that the issuance of those credits has put a black mark on the environmental integrity of the CDM and prompted speculation that the UNFCCC process has been hijacked by special interests.
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