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UNFCCC/Com+ media workshop in Durban -- Another climate cliffhanger 

“Everything is impossible until it is done.” The words of Nelson Mandela were quoted repeatedly all around Durban’s vast International Convention Centre (ICC), home for two intense weeks to the United Nations climate change summit (COP 17). And they turned out to be prophetic, yet again. The conference, begun on November 28 and due to end on Friday, December 9, overran through an exhausting final weekend, climaxing with a compromise but highly significant agreement just before 6 a.m. on Sunday, December 11. 

World Business Council and Guardian Newspaper Join Forces: Business on the Road to Rio

In the lead up to the Rio+20 conference, the WBCSD is keen to promote thework of itsmembers as positive contributors to creating a more sustainable world. In partnership with the Guardian; the leading newspaper on sustainability issues the WBCSD has created Business on the Road to Rio web hub; an online destination for news and opinion on the business contribution to Rio+20 and how the conference will impact business. The hub is part of the Guardian Sustainable Business website.

Thomson Reuters Foundation launches youTrust.org

Thomson Reuters Foundation, which publishes AlertNet Climate, has just launched youTrust.org, a new kind of social media platform. It enables you to easily share multimedia information with your community of interest, and gives you the means to create your own campaigns and engage others on issues you care about.

Are you ready to Connect4Climate? World Bank kicks off social media climate campaign with photo/video competition for African youth

Washington, DC / Pretoria, September 15, 2011 -- The World Bank, in collaboration with more than 50 global partners, is launching the Connect4Climate initiative -- a campaign, a competition, and a community that cares about climate change.

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Climate Concerns Decline Since Copenhagen Summit: Global Poll>>>

As governments prepare to meet in Mexico for the Cancun climate summit, a new GlobeScan poll reveals that concern about climate change has fallen across OECD countries, but that citizens in some major developing nations have become more concerned about the issue.

Mexico: International Legislators Propose a Way to Move Forward on Climate Change in the Context of COP 16>>>

In partnership with COMplus Alliance, members of GLOBE International, gathered at the Mexican Senate in Mexico City (4th/5th December) to agree common legislative responses to the major global environmental challenges. The GLOBE Forum was held this past weekend in parallel to the 16th Meeting of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), taking place at the Mexican beach resort of Cancun.

IPS Africa reporter wins CGIAR Science Award >>>

6 April 2010 - Zimbabwean journalist Busani Bafana is the 2009 recipient of the Award for Excellence in Agricultural Science Journalism, described by CGIAR as”[a] professional who has put his way with words at the service of Africa's agriculture”.

Emergency Information Service helps thousands in Haiti:
TEXT YOUR LOCATION TO 4636 TO REGISTER >>>

Port au Prince, Haiti, 20 January 2010 - The Thomson Reuters Foundation has successfully launched its Emergency Information Service (EIS) to assist the disaster-struck population of Haiti and has already received more than 2700 messages. The new service, launched Sunday, allows survivors of the earthquake to receive critical information via a variety of communications channels, including SMS message directly to their phones, free of charge. Individuals can also send feedback via the same system that will reach the aid organisations working in Haiti.

AlertNet: Climate is launched >>>

18 December 2009 - Wangari Maathai , Kenya 's 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner, spoke at the launch of Alertnet: Climate, a new website on the humanitarian impacts of climate change funded by Com+, Danida and the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

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