Renewable energy will power responsible development

Renewable energy will power responsible development

	June 12, 2012 | News covering the UN and the world Sign up | E-Mail this | Donate Wirth: Renewable energy will power responsible development Initiatives arising from the Rio+20 summit will benefit from the idea that "energy is essential for development, and sustainable energy is essential for sustainable development," writes Timothy E. Wirth, president of the United Nations Foundation. The three key objectives of the UN are ensuring universal access to energy, a 100% increase in the rate of energy efficiency gains and doubling renewable energy's global share, Wirth writes.AOL Energy (6/8)      UN report accuses Syria of abuses against children The hows and whys of intractable polio in Nigeria Tutu seeks to hold leaders to account at Rio+20 S. Sudan looks to The Hague on border crisis Career Center Skip to a section: United Nations | Health & Development | Climate and Energy | Peacekeeping and Security Women & girls are key! RT@UnivAccessProj: Empowering women & girls is key to sustainable development #rioplussocial" @UNFoundation "Changing the attitudes that underpin the abuse of women and girls will happen over decades of education and advocacy -- in the span of generations, not projects. And addressing the consequences of violence against Afghan women will require long term political and financial investments by the international community, whether or not a settlement to the conflict is reached anytime soon." UN Dispatch UN report accuses Syria of abuses against children The United Nations has accused Syrian government forces and allied militias of using children, some as young as 9, as human shields, in addition to subjecting them to arbitrary arrest, murder, torture and sexual assault. The UN's annual report on children and armed conflict, which identifies 32 "persistent perpetrators" and 20 other countries as abusers of children -- more than twice as many as in 2010. "Rarely have I seen such brutality against children as in Syria," said Radhika Coomaraswamy, a special representative for the world body. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)/The Associated Press (6/12), Deutsche Welle (Germany) (6/12)      Ivorian cocoa farmers flee after area attack The assault last week in Cote d'Ivoire that killed seven United Nations peacekeepers and 11 others has also led hundreds of people to abandon cocoa farms along the western border with Liberia. There are at least 1,500 among the displaced, according to the UN. Reuters (6/12)      Other News Ban appoints U.S. diplomat to lead political affairs The Washington Post/The Associated Press (6/11)      UN: Nearly 33% of N. Korean children under 5 are affected by malnourishment The Guardian (London)/The Associated Press (6/12)      The hows and whys of intractable polio in Nigeria This analysis explains why Nigeria remains among the few countries endemic with polio. Beyond the traditional culprits of politics and economics are the refusal of the country's elite to allow their children to be vaccinated and a distrust of health programs that immunize children against polio for free but charge for malaria treatment. Daily Trust (Nigeria) (6/12)      Other News Child marriage in India runs counter to proposed sex-abuse bill The New York Times (tiered subscription model)/India Ink blog (6/12)      Mali, Niger are trying to fend off swarming desert locusts Los Angeles Times/World Now blog (tiered subscription model) (6/7)      Tutu seeks to hold leaders to account at Rio+20 Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace laureate and chairman of the group The Elders, writes of the frustration he feels over the indifference of world leaders toward social injustice and climate change two decades after the first Earth Summit. He is heartened, however, by his ongoing debatewith four young leaders from countries spanning the continents, people for whom " 'sustainability' is not just a word, it is a system that will ensure the well-being and prosperity of the planet they will inherit." The Huffington Post (6/8)      Study: Warming forests could warm the world A study reports that the world's forests could become carbon emitters -- and not carbon sinks, as had been hoped -- as temperatures rise globally. Temperatures that were increased by 20 degrees Celsius resulted in carbon dioxide production from the topsoil of U.S. forests increasing eight times over, according to research by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Irvine. The New York Times (tiered subscription model)/Green blog (6/11)      $140 trillion in spending is needed to slow climate change If governments are serious about checking the global rise in temperatures at less than 2 degrees Celsius, then they would have to invest $23.9 trillion by the end of the decade and $140 trillion by 2050, according to the International Energy Agency. Spain and the U.S. are among leaders in working on concentrated solar power, but carbon capture and storage has been slow to develop. AlertNet/Reuters (6/11)      Other News China's carbon emissions said to be greater than thought Reuters (6/10)      IEA: Technology exists to stop warming, but "we're not using it" The New York Times (tiered subscription model)/Green blog (6/11)      S. Sudan looks to The Hague on border crisis South Sudan and Sudan have failed to reach a deal on their contested border through African Union-mediated discussions. While more talks are scheduled for June 21, South Sudan wants The Hague's international arbitration body to take up the issue. The Wall Street Journal (6/12), The New York Times (tiered subscription model)(5/31)      Other News Bahrain frees 11-year-old arrested for "illegal gathering" Link to source :- http://www.cdrn.org.in/show.detail.asp?id=24507