Intl Year of Water Cooperation
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Climate Pro – New Climate Partnership launched on World Environment Day
On World Environment Day, Wednesday 5 June, Progressio Ireland is launching ClimatePro – a new partnership initiative designed to tackle climate change in a fair and effective way. ClimatePro is a two-way partnership programme. It invites and supports businesses, community groups and individuals here in Ireland and the UK to actively reduce their own carbon ...
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Stop Climate Chaos Coalition welcomes re-introduction of climate bill
The Stop Climate Chaos coalition has welcomed the launch yesterday by Sinn Fein of a Climate Bill that gained all-party support in the last Dáil. Brian Stanley TD is re-introducing the bill that was published by the Climate Change and Energy Committee in 2010. Stop Climate Chaos supporters have sent over 90,000 messages to Government ...
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Ending poverty means listening to poor people
Last week saw the United Nations High Level Panel (HLP) on the post-2015 Development Agenda being held in London. It was the second meeting of the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on the post-2015 agenda. The panel is comprised of 26 people from across the world, made up of government, civil society and business ...
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Our planet and its people: What the scientists say
Photo: Leonard Moyo, a small scale farmer near Lupane, Zimbabwe. Progressio partner organisation Environment Africa has helped Leonard grow his way out of poverty. Lupane, Feburary 2012 (Photo © Macpherson/Progressio) At Progressio we work a lot with the people at the sharp end of climate change and environmental damage – for example, for small scale ...
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Climate justice: People want real alternatives not false solutions
Above: Martha Flores of the Nicaraguan social movement Another World is Possible, 2012 (Photo © Maggie Von Vogt/Progressio) “Social movements here [in Central America] create new ideas and are an inspiration, not only for Latin America, but for the whole world.” So said Eva Ekelund from the World Lutheran Federation in her opening speech at ...
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Roadmap for an Irish Climate Legislation On 23rd January 2012, the Minister for the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, Phil Hogan, issued a roadmap or work programme setting out the steps and milestones for the development of national climate policy and legislation in Ireland. This is greatly welcomed as a step ...
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Video on climate change and its effects on Peru This video talks about the fatal effects of climate change, the disappearance of tropical glaciers in the Andes and the problems arising from a related lack of access to water in Peru. This video was made by Progressio development worker Cindy Krose. Cindy ...
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Documentary: Protecting Water, Protecting Life in Honduras This documentary gives a detailed overview of the impact of water scarcity and climate change in Hoduras and introduces some of Progressio’s related projects and activities. Local people and development workers talk about the challenges they face and the great improvement some of the projects have already ...
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Climate change: The verdict from Central America on Durban
People in Durban protesting around the Climate Change Conference on the streets of Durban. (Photo © Rosalía Soley) Climate Justice supporters in Central America watched tentatively and with skepticism for news from the COP17 negotiations in Durban, fearing thatCOP17 would just lead us further down a dead-end road, reports Maggie von Vogt, Progressio development worker ...
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