Daily Pioneer: Rio+20 summit can be summed up as a conference where it was decided to have more conferences and where nobody put the money on the table. Even as the intent of the meet was noble, it was not backed by commitments on financing or transferring of green technologies from developed countries to make

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The News International: As many as 120 children hailing from different parts of Pakistan left Monday for Abbottabad to take part in the 10-day long 11th National Children’s Mountain Conservation Meet (NCMCM), says a press release. Speaking on the occasion, Brigadier (r) Muhammad Akram, President of the Adventure Foundation Pakistan (AFP), said that children and

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SciDevnet: Last week’s summit has confirmed that sustainable development will only be achieved through the political leadership of developing countries. Two and a half years ago, the Copenhagen climate change conference (COP15) ended in rancorous and highly public disagreement between developed and developing nations on what was needed to prevent further global warming. The outcome

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Nepaleseteacher: Inter governmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) defines climate change as a change in the state of the climate that can be identified (e.g using statistical tests) by changes in the mean and/or the variability of its properties, and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer. It refers to any change

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Scidev.net: [BEIJING] Researchers in China have identified a rice gene that could improve both the quality and yield of the staple crop.   Xiangdong Fu, a geneticist at the Institute of Genetics and Development Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China, and colleagues first discovered the gene — known as GW8 —

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Social and popular movements, trade unions, people, civil society organizations and environmentalists from around the world present at the Peoples’ Summit in Rio +20 for Social and Environmental Justice, lived in the camps, the mass mobilization, in the debates, the construction of the convergences and alternatives, conscious that we are subjects of a different relationship

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