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Inside this Issue: Youth Cafeteria Campaign, Latest Update The Way Forward: Open, Unscripted and Interactive NGO Input at the Ministerial Dialogue with Representatives of the Major Groups Is your suitcase heavier upon return? IISD's Climate Knowledge Management Project Cracking the Peanuts or the Coconuts? |
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Friday, May 16, 2008While We Were Talking...Compiled by: Angus Macdonald and Matt Boms2 May: ...cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar killing between 70,000 and 100,000 people. Myanmar’s junta government subsequently refused relief assistance from the international community. 5 May: ...two rioters, protesting against the price of food, were shot dead in Mogadishu. 5 May: ...Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade called for the end of FAO saying the agency was a "waste of money largely spent on doing very little". 9 May: ...oil hit a record $125.98 per barrel 12 May: ...Wenchuan earthquake hit the Sichuan province in Southwest China. Reports suggest that the number of deaths could top 50,000 and more than 10 million people have been directly affected by the catastrophe. 13 May: ...Brazilian environmental minister Marina Silva seen as a champion of Amazon conservation and environmental causes, resigned. 13 May: ...Spain imported 23m liters of emergency water amidst record droughts and half empty reservoirs. Six shiploads of water will arrive each month, for three months to help cope with the water crunch. |