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EEJA is a non-partisan and independent professional body that strives to contribute to the development of an environmentally media sector and the overall sustainable development of Ethiopia.
For World Environment Day, more than 2,000 people in Nepal turned into literal tree huggers in an attempt to break the world record for the largest, simultaneous tree hug.
For World Environment Day, more than 2,000 people in Nepal turned into literal tree huggers in an attempt to break the world record for the largest, simultaneous tree hug. Trees are the lungs of our planet and there is no question to how essential they are to all life on this Earth, yet commercial i…
The EU Parliament has been calling for even more ambitious and binding climate targets for both the EU and the rest of the world. In February, MEPs called for a 40% cut in CO2 emissions from 1990 levels, a 30% target for renewable energy and a 40% target for energy efficiency by 2030. They have also consistently called on the EU to show greater ambition in the talks for the new global climate change treaty that is expected to be adopted by the Paris Climate Conference in December 2015.
A degraded environment can have a negative impact on sport, the Olympic Games and, most importantly, on the athletes. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Olympic Movement at large consider environmental responsibility as an integral part of Olympism, along with sport and culture, and work to acknowledge and encourage the implementation of good environmental practices in the field of sport.
Today marks World Environment Day (WED) 2014, under the theme of “Small Islands Developing States (SIDS) and Climate Change”. This Day, initiated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), provides an opportunity to highlight how sport and the environment are deeply interlinked, and to illu…
Our environment is the future of our world. If it’s not healthy, then we can’t think of taking a breath of peace
Unfortunately, most environmental policy and program documents have hardly been enforced.
Ethiopia enacted a National Environmental Policy in 1997 and formulated many environmentally oriented policies and programs.
Ethiopia ratified a number of international conventions , ,
Due to geo-physical position and socio-economic context, ET’s prone to several recurrent natural and human-induced disasters.
Keep your world clean and green. Save trees,Save the environment!! Clean city,Green city!! Happy world Environment Day!
"Our pathway is clear . Clean energy economies produce profits without pollution, better livelihoods in stable industries, restore health and wider wealth and preserve water and essential resources." Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
"Raise Your Voice, Not the Sea Level.” Ban Ki-moon, The United Nations Secretary-General
By 2050, climate change is expected to increase the risk of hunger by 10-20 percent compared to a no-climate change scenario.
A participatory forest management (PFM) program in Ethiopia has made good on forest preservation and expansion. After 15 years, the program has aided one community in expanding its forest by 9.2 percent in the last decade, while still allowing community access to forest for small scale logging in Ethiopia's Bale Mountains.
Ethiopia has some 6,603 species of plants, 839 birds, 205 mammals, 288 reptiles, and 76 amphibians. Let's protect them protecting the environment they live in.
Between 1990 and 2005, Ethiopia lost 14 percent of its forest cover or 2.1 million hectares. Deforestation rates have increased by 10.4 percent since the close of the 1990s.
Ethiopia loses about 141,000 hectares of natural forest each year due to firewood collection, conversion to farmland, overgrazing, and use of forest wood for building material. Ethiopia faces a difficult future, because the agricultural sector, which forms the backbone of the economy, is totally dependent on forest resources.
"The main causes depleting natural forests in Ethiopia are attributed to agricultural encroachments in the forests and overgrazing with detrimental effects on natural regeneration. It is alarming to observe unsustainable human activities in forest lands, which leads to not only deforestation, but also forest degradation." Forest Network in Ethiopoia
"The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved." Richard Rogers
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has"
Margaret Mead.
June 5 every year is celebrated as the World Environment day to raise global awareness on environmental challenges, to take positive environmental action, to protect nature and the planet Earth. Let's all share our voice and our concerns.
A large section of the mighty West Antarctica ice sheet has begun falling apart and its continued melting now appears to be unstoppable...the melting could destabilize neighboring parts of the ice sheet and a rise in sea level of 10 feet or more may be unavoidable in coming centuries.... READ full report from New York Times
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/05/13/science/earth/collapse-of-parts-of-west-antarctica-ice-sheet-has-begun-scientists-say.html?referrer
ONLY 2 DAYS REMAINING for REUTERS Training in ADDIS ABABA
Thomson Reuters Foundation in partnership with the US Embassy Addis Ababa organize IN-DEPTH REPORTING training to help journalists develop the skills necessary for investigative reporting, from preparing to ensuring the quality and accuracy of stories for publication and broadcast.
Participants are also guided by Reuters expertise on sourcing, and handling legal and ethical issues when embarking on such reporting.
DEADLINE: Apr 24, 2014
To APPLY please click this link: http://www.trust.org/course/?id=a05D000000KN7UvIAL
Home of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. News and jobs from AlertNet (Humanitarian & Climate), TrustLaw (Women & Corruption) plus TrustMedia journalism training and TrustLaw Connect free legal assistance.
Fortune, the largest English weekly, published an interesting editorial that related with the ongoing debate on Abbay (Blue Nile) River. The paper argued that “refocusing the Nile debate on the challenges of climate change and environmental degradation could change the whole debate.”
“Considering the magnitude of the challenge climate change and environmental degradation pose to the very waters of the Nile, one could expect for governments of the riparian nations to factor it in their discussions,” Fortune wrote. “But it remains to be marginalised in all the ongoing rhetoric. By and large, the debate seems to assume that the waters of the river are going to stay intact, regardless of the natural and anthropogenic factors.”
To read the full editorial visit:
http://addisfortune.net/columns/nile-debate-beats-around-the-bush-saddening/
Addisfortune- is the largest english weekly in ethiopia.
New study, which launched yesterday by the Government of Kenya and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), showed Kenya’s transition to a green economy could produce major economic benefits – equivalent to an estimated 45 billion dollars by 2030. The shift also hoped to ensure greater food security, a cleaner environment and higher productivity of natural resources.
For background info and to download the full report please visit:
http://www.unep.org/greeneconomy/ResearchReports/GreenEconomyAssessmentReportKenya/tabid/133003/language/en-US/Default.aspx
A green economy is one whose growth in income and employment is driven by public and private investments that reduce carbon emissions and pollution, enhance energy and resource efficiency, and prevent the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services. These investments need to be catalyzed and support...
"This is a big week even for the most amateur of sky-watchers, with a rare full lunar eclipse and Mars getting as close as it ever does to Earth," Andrew Fazekas wrote on National Geographic.
One of the events he mentioned, the lunar eclipse, occurred on last night of (April 14-15, 2014). Here are the most amazing pictures taken by REUTERS photographers in some parts of the world including Austin,Texas and Miami, Florida. The last one is a composite picture shows the blood moon total lunar eclipse in seven stages.
The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change's (IPCC), the international body that provide regular assessments of the scientific basis of climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for adaptation and mitigation for policymakers published its land mark reports on last Sunday, April 13, 2014. Founded in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), IPCC released various assessments every year. This is for the fifth time IPCC released reports, which prepared by three "working group.
According to IPCC, the synthesis report will be considered on a meeting that will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark from 27 to 31 October, 2014. Though the reports have got a wide coverage from the international media, we would like to share the links of the reports to our esteemed members.
Working Group 1 report- Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg1/
Working Group 2 report- Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg2/
Working Group 3 Report- Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg3/
TWITTER Q&A ON THE AFRICAN STORY CHALLENGE:
The African Story Challenge, launched by African Media Initiative (AMI), is looking for great story ideas from African journalists in need of funding. If you have a fantastic idea, AMI have budgets of up to $20,000 to produce innovative multimedia stories on development issues.
For details on how it works, who is eligible and answers to any queries you might have - join them for a Twitter Q & A with the Editor of the African Story Challenge () and a past grantee who'll share his experience.
The Twitter discussion will be on Friday 11th April, 2014 from 10.00hrs GMT - 13.00hrs GMT. Hashtag:
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Be ONE of up to EIGHT journalists to win a scholarship and get the opportunity to attend the 2014 EcoHealth Conference, which organized by the International Association for Ecology and Health. The 5th Biennial Conference will be held from 11 – 15 August 2014 in Montréal, Canada.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Tuesday 3rd of June 2014
FOR DETAIL INFO visit http://www.wfsj.org/news/news.php?id=342
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Join millions of people across the world, who will switch lights off for an hour on 29 March at 8:30 pm, to raise awareness for the planet. The worldwide grassroots movement, which is organised by WWF & famously known as "Earth Hour", was started as a lights-off event in Sydney, Australia in 2007. Since then it has grown to engage more than 7000 cities and towns worldwide, and the one-hour event continues to remain the key driver of the now larger movement.
Earth Hour 2013 took place in more than 7001 cities and towns in 154 countries and territories across all seven continents. Hundreds of millions of people switched their lights off for an hour, and the campaign experienced its biggest growth since 2009. There were around 3395 landmarks that participated.
For further info visit http://www.earthhour.org
The New Climate Economy – a research project initiated in September 2013 by seven countries, including Ethiopia – was launched in Ethiopia at a ceremony held at the Radisson Blu Hotel on Thursday March 6, 2014, reports Fortune newspaper.
Addisfortune- is the largest english weekly in ethiopia.
Our member Andualem Sisay wrote this story on his website, www.newbusinessethiopia.com
Thousands of demonstrators are camped out in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, preparing for fresh protests against President Viktor Yanukovych....
Selamta, the in-flight magazine of Ethiopian Airlines, gave recognition for environmental initiatives in the capital Addis Ababa and all over the nation on its editions. On latest issue of March/ April 2014, the magazine chosen four initiatives in Addis Ababa: reforestation, pollution reduction, waste management & sustainable building.
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