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MDG Summit 2010
Christian Post -- World leaders will gather over the next few days in New York for a U.N. summit to accelerate progress toward the Millennium Development Goals. Starting Monday, the 150 world leaders at the high-level MDG2010 Summit will assess progress toward the series of targets that range from cutting child and maternal mortality to halving the number of people who go hungry, and recommit to the pledges they made a decade ago. Also present will be representatives from the private sector and civil society such as Abbé Ambroise Tine, secretary general of Caritas Senegal, who will be representing Caritas Internationalis, the wider confederation of 165 national Catholic charities...

President of Namibia awarded for contribution to food security
Africa Good News -- Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba has been awarded the 2010 FANRPAN Food Security Policy Leadership Award in recognition of his contributions to the country's fisheries policies for a food-secure Africa. The award was announced in Windhoek, Namibia at the FANRPAN Annual Regional Policy Dialogue recently.President Pohamba and his government have been instrumental in creating responsible fisheries policies in Namibia which have already been recognised by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation in 2009. According to Pohamba Namibia's industrial fisheries will continue to develop in a sustainable manner...

Gordon Murray unveils lightweight city car
BBC -- Imagine a car so narrow that two can drive next to each other in one lane; a car so small and short that three can park in one parking space. Now imagine that the car is built in a shed from glass fibre, recycled plastic bottles and hollow steel tubes, using just a fifth of the material required to build a conventional car. Such a vehicle would have the potential to prevent gridlock on the world's roads as the number of cars quadruples to 2.5 billion by 2020. It could also help hundreds of millions of people achieve their dream of owning a car, without depleting scarce resources such as water, energy or steel...

Congo among nations advancing on forest carbon
Reuters -- Nations including Democratic Republic of Congo are making surprise progress towards taking part in a $200 million project for slowing deforestation from late 2010, World Bank experts said. They also said Latin America, with forested nations around the Amazon, had strong incentives to take part since most of the continent's greenhouse gas emissions came from deforestation and shifts in land use, rather than use of fossil fuels. "We intend to start operations later this year," Benoit Bosquet, lead carbon finance specialist at the World Bank, told Reuters of the Carbon Fund, part of a facility that involves 37 forested developing nations and 14 donors...


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