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SUDAN - Natural resource management tops UN agenda (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
GENEVA, 21 November 2008 (IRIN) As part of the UN's US$2.2 billion humanitarian appeal for Sudan, officials said their agencies would work to better manage natural resources in the African nation in the upcoming year. "This year \2009\, there will be more emphasis ...
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Catholic Bishop Blasts Brazil on Amazon Destruction (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
RAZIL: February 7, 2008 http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/46824/story.htm BRASILIA A senior Roman Catholic bishop criticized Brazil's government on Wednesday for energy and agriculture policies that he said were destroying the Amazon forest and threatening the livelihood of local ...
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Forest Loss in Sumatra Becomes a Global Issue (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/06/world/asia/06indo.html?r=1&ref=environmen t&oref=slogin By PETER GELLING Published: December 6, 2007 KUALA CENAKU, Indonesia, Dec. 1 — Here on the island of Sumatra, about 1,200 miles from the global climate talks ...
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When Biofuel is Bad for the Environment (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1688893,00.html  By KRISTA MAHR/RIAU Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2007 On a recent humid morning in Riau, a province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, a young man named Suranto wakes early on a Sunday, wraps a red ...
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