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April 17, 2013 | 11:15 AM | By  | 

World Bank President Leads Charge Against Climate Change | 

Jim Kim
Jim Kim
World Bank

The World Bank unveiled its plan to end extreme poverty by 2030 recently.

The rapid progress of India, China and Brazil blazed the path towards exceeding the global Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty by 2015. Now the Bank wants to rid the world of extreme poverty forever.

Ending extreme poverty will require the acceleration of economic growth in developing countries and translating that growth into jobs while eliminating inequality, said World Bank President Jim Kim in a blogger call yesterday morning. Work must be done to mitigate the shocks caused by natural disasters and eliminate the insecurity linked to food, fuel and poverty, he added.

Linking all of these problems, for Kim, is climate change.

“Climate change is not just an environmental challenge. It’s a fundamental threat to economic development and the fight against poverty,” he said. Continue reading →

FILED UNDER: Basics, Clean Energy, climate change, Coal, energy, Jim Kim, malnutrition, Renewable Energy, Sahel, World Bank
March 9, 2012 | 1:36 PM | By  | 

Will the next Africa hunger crisis be prevented? | 

There is a looming food crisis in the Sahel, a geographic ‘belt’ that stretches across central Africa from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea.

After the hand-wringing and finger-pointing following the famine in East Africa last year, you would think the international community would already be mobilizing to prevent a similar tragedy from unfolding again right before our eyes.

The Guardian

As The Guardian reports:

More than 13 million people are at risk of hunger in the Sahel, with more than 10 million now considered food-insecure. More than 1 million children are at risk of severe malnutrition.

BBC Oxfam warns of catastrophe

 

FILED UNDER: Basics, food crisis, hunger, Oxfam, Sahel