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Tag was last used: Dec 7, 2011

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Posted By: changeandswitch Posted On: Dec 6, 2011	Innovative Climate Finance
As climate change worsens and the solutions continue to develop commercial feasibility, why does climate financing still lag behind? Climate financing in developing countries is one of the key issues at this year’s UN climate change negotiations in Durban. The last...... [view]

Posted By: changeandswitch Posted On: Dec 6, 2011	Youth Carry the Burdens and Solutions of Climate Change
Youth across Africa, through non-formal education programs, are being educating on the burdens and also opportunities of climate change. Every day when Beatrice Omweri returns from work tired she walks a considerable distance to fill up to eight containers with water for...... [view]

Posted By: changeandswitch Posted On: Dec 7, 2011	Climate Wins
Tonight at the UN Climate Talks (COP17), the UNFCCC Secretariat will launch a new initiative, “Momentum for Change” as supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Momentum for Change aims to showcase efforts that have proved effective across...... [view]

Posted By: changeandswitch Posted On: Dec 3, 2011	South Africa: Injustice Starts with Oppression
South Africa has shown the world before how injustices can be overcome. Why are they allowing for different, but injustices nonetheless, still occur to the planet? When two little girls, two and five years old, are killed because of greed; there is reason to...... [view]

Posted By: changeandswitch Posted On: Dec 2, 2011	Capacity Building in the Pacific
Small island states are amongst the first to feel the impacts of climate change, how will capacity building assist them? By now we all know the science and consequences of climate change; 18 to 59cm of sea-level rise is expected by 2100. For some of us, that may not mean...... [view]

Posted By: changeandswitch Posted On: Dec 1, 2011	EU's Fast Financing of Africa
Least developed countries are faced with the need to adapt to climate change today, how is the global community assisting them? It is a sad irony of climate change that the poorest countries have to bear its effects more than developed countries, who are the biggest...... [view]

Posted By: changeandswitch Posted On: Nov 30, 2011	Gender Agenda at COP17
In a year of climate negotiations headed up by three women, expectations are high for Durban to deliver an outcome recognising the gender-sensitive impacts of climate change. COP17 President Maite Nkoana-Mashabane opened this year’s UN climate negotiations...... [view]

Posted By: vincehof Posted On: Oct 8, 2008	Where to eat on a tight budget in South Africa
Working within the CBD of Johannesburg ensures that one’s lunch time menu is always kept diverse. You are however generally limited to a budget should you, like me, want to eat out as regulalry as possible to avoid having to make one’s own food in advance. So, if you’re...... [view]

Posted By: vincehof Posted On: Aug 27, 2008	Where to eat, drink, read and be merry in Johannesburg
Favourite place to go drink coffee La Patesserie - The coffee is really good, strong with a head and you’re surrounded by well pastries, exceptional cup cakes, perhaps the best chicken / beef pies in Johannesburg. Second, Vida e Caffe at Rosebank if you manage to time it just right...... [view]

Posted By: vincehof Posted On: Aug 10, 2008	Free wireless internet hotspots in South Africa
So I’m a bit of a coffee elitist, I require it at least once daily and if it is burnt, or I don’t see a decent head of foam building up aboard my delicious cup then its of no nutritional value whatsoever. There is but only one thing that might ensure my patronage at your restaurant /...... [view]