Environment

Archived articles on: environmental protection.

SALINE LAKE PUTS AWASH RIVER AND AGGRO-INVESTMENTS AT RISK


A saline lake in Ethiopia that's baffled scientists by its 15-fold growth threatens to spill into the nation's longest river and damage plans by Africa's biggest coffee grower to become a commodities powerhouse.

GIBE III and OMO | ANTI-DAM GROUP SHORT ON FACT, LONG ON FICTION AGAIN


The Gilgel Gibe III Dam is once again under fire from environmentalists who had previously raised concerns over dangers they claim are associated with the dam, including allegations that more than half a million people's livelihoods along the Lower Omo Valley in Ethiopia or around Lake Turkana in Kenya could be threatened by the construction of the project. The dam, which will generate more than 1,800MWs of power, is now nearly two thirds complete.

Govt Launches Green Economic Funding Facilit


The Climate Resilient Green Economy Facility (CRGEF) was launched on September 10, 2012, with the intent of supporting the government’s vision of attaining a middle income economy with low carbon growth by 2025.

The Secret Guide to Pv Wireless Charging For Your Devices


So there's this upcoming craze going along side our attraction with the top wire less units [1], and it's the proper way to get their battery packs totally full. With most of the newer pads and tablets, cellphones, and lap tops the only common headache is the most simple approach to keep them recharged. I began browsing for exactly what I would likely do with many of these various accessories and now I question what I would do with out them. I even worry every night whether I have each of them on their own proper wires and cables and recharging up for the day ahead.

Water Quality & Sanitation Standards Needed to Sustain Booming Tourism


Geoscope Environmental Laboratories is a family business that was established in 2006 as the first Black-Owned State-Certified Environmental Laboratory in the United States. Co-owners Negede Gedamu and Alemnesh Abebe have dedicated the past 30 years of their lives in monitoring and researching agricultural and environmental issues in rural America.

Next month climate conference will be a total fraud, says PM


Next month's climate conference in Cacun, Mexico, "will be a total fraud," the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi, said yesterday in Addis Ababa. Mr Zenawi, who heads the Conference of African Heads of State and Government on Climate Change, shocked particpants at the ongoing Seventh African Development Forum when he said the massive deficit in global leadership guarantees that the proposed conference would end badly.

UK, Ethiopia to head climate funding effort


Reuters - Britain and Ethiopia will head a new United Nations panel that aims to secure $100 billion every year by 2020 to help developing nations cut emissions and adapt to climate change, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday.

PM proposes high level panel to deal with climate change


Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on Saturday proposed the establishment of a high level panel to deal with the implementation of the recommendations of the Copenhagen climate summit where the international community pledged to give billions of dollars to Africa for mitigate the impact of climate change.

Making Africa Green Again


Gashaw Tahir was shocked when he returned to his native Ethiopia after living overseas and saw how the land had been degraded, as well as the effects of deforestation on the climate and quality of life for his community, which overwhelmingly relies on farming.

Climate change conference was a success for Africa: PM


Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said Africa is the most benefited from Copenhagen Global Climate deal among any parties.
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