By Albert Oppong-Ansah

Water may a cheap and easily accessible commodity to some communities the world, but the story is different, regarding the people of Hahagu, Jerigu, Cheko and Dalembila in the Northern Region.

Indeed, people,…

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It was a rainy afternoon when my friend Anupama Sen and I were stuck in the small coffee-shop in south Calcutta. Anupama is my childhood friend, now a renowned physician in the city with a neat six figure private practice – I recalled her super sharp mind…

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  In one of recently held international seminar in Pakistan, experts from various institutions of the world highlighted concerns related to various developmental processes, natural resource crisis and ignorance towards local governance system in the mountainous part of Himalaya. The experts highlighted…

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We boast, we host, and we are lost!

It sounds the legacy of mighty Himalaya and its people. Here, agencies seem boasting the urgency and the welfare of mountain ecosystem (!), while people in the region are hosting their dialogues with utmost…

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United Nations negotiations on international action to combat climate change started yesterday in Bonn, Germany and will run until 17 June. The Hungarian Presidency of the Council and the European Commission are representing the European Union at the two-week meeting, which is the second session of official-level talks held to prepare the UN climate conference in Durban, South Africa at the end…

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Worth to follow the today starting UNFCCC Climate Conference (Bonn Germany) which is important last preparation meeting before the December Climate Summit in Durbain South Africa. Hopefully nation's representatives will find out what to do how to step forward and how to extend/renew the soon expiring Kyoto Protocol. Especially in review that (as per the latest International Energy Agency…

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For last few months the black carbon issue is being highlighted in Himalayan region, with a viewpoint that it will have adverse impact on human health, air quality and on various ecosystem functions. It is said that, there is sheer need of various local and international efforts to reduce the emissions and cope the… Continue

For two days (24-26 March 2011.) as and inspiring and significant part of the Hungarian Presidency’s programme, Gödöllő Royal Palace was hosting an informal meeting of EU Environment Ministers.

Together with Fotis (from Greece) and Raul (from Romania) we visited the Presidency Headquarters in Gödöllö and keeping you posted about all interesting and important happenings.…

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Snow on trees - beautiful, if you ask me, and appropriate weather for this time of year. Of course not everybody sees it that way. Most of the people supposedly always "Dreamin' of a white Christmas..." have been whinging non-stop since the snow started, admittedly a good bit ahead of the feast…

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As the negotiations kick off in Cancun (and the opening speeches seem to repeat the message of low expectations and going for partial compromises discussed in the last blog), I'm looking at this flyer, lying on my desk . The possible impact of climate change and extreme weather events caused by climate change on health is an "in" topic in Bonn this week. The German Environment Ministry, Federal Environment agency, German Meterological Office… Continue

I've just come back from a short media briefing by the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC Christiana Figueres. The climate secretariat's headquarters is just next to our building, so it was not a problem for me to walk over and be back in half an hour. I'd love to be able to say the room was full. There were a handful of us, although no doubt there will have been some others following online.(But I didn't hear questions from the big players I've heard in previous briefings either).

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