An African Development Bank team composed of experts from the Energy, Environment and Climate Change Department (ONEC) and the Sierra Leone Field Office (SLFO) completed its second green growth mission to Sierra Leone from February 4 to 8, 2013. The objective of the mission was to work further with Government counterparts on mainstreaming green growth into Sierra Leone’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) – (2013–2017) called “Agenda for Prosperity”, currently under preparation.

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As a very poor country, Cambodia is forced into a trade off between economic development and the conservation of its natural resources.

At least that's the conventional wisdom that sees short term profit take precedence over long term environmental sustainability.

But Dr Tim Killeen argues it doesn't need to be that way.

Listen to the program: http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/program/connect-asi...

At the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from the private sector, NGOs and other groups, will come together to shape how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ensure environmental protection on an ever more crowded planet.

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Tackling over-consumption, not over-population will be key to ensuring sustainable development, according to a new report from Christian Aid.

The paper warns that poor people – often the main source of population growth – should not be blamed for the global environmental crisis in the face of overconsumption of the world’s middle classes.

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Creating a sustainable business is hard enough in the developed world. But in important emerging markets it can be more difficult still.

When Harish Hande set up India’s Solar Electric Light Company (Selco), in 1995 with the aim of providing cheap, clean solar energy to the nation’s rural poor, he quickly ran into a series of barriers.

Money was a big problem: India had few financial institutions willing to invest in renewable energy projects. He also needed to develop a method of distribution.

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WITH two months left before leaders assemble for the United Nations Rio Summit, prospects for a radical fix of the planet’s worsening environmental ills and poverty seem remote.

Around 100 heads of state and government are expected in Rio de Janeiro for the June 20 to 22 summit on sustainable development. It takes place 40 years after the first big global environment meeting and 20 years after the near-legendary Earth Summit, where the United Nations set up two fora to combat climate change and biodiversity loss.

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India has had some success in reducing poverty, but a staggering 350 million people still live below the poverty line.

And discontent is rising, with the middle income feeling the pinch from soaring food prices.

Industry experts said it's time the government introduce new reforms to spur the country's economy.

Read more: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/southasia/view/1195200/1/.html

As co-chair of the National Agricultural and Fisheries Council’s Committee on Climate Change of the Climate Change Congress of the Philippines, Christian Monsod also spoke at the forum about the role of green technologies and sustainability in poverty alleviation.

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"Despite the world's third largest economy, India still has huge problems with poverty, graft, water distribution and the environment. There is much to be done, especially with India's children."

That's how environmental journalist Robert Weir summed up his recent seven months in India, spent mostly in Calcutta (Kolkata), working with Rosalie Giffoniello's "Empower the Children" program.

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There is every indication that major disasters could be the new midwives of history. Seeking to prevent them, the green economy aims to reduce “environmental risks” and “ecological scarcities” while improving human well-being and social equity.
These are the stated goals of the Green Economy Initiative, launched in 2008 by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Read more: http://www.eco-business.com/features/green-economy-seeks-to-maintain-growth-threatened-by-disasters/