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1. Imported Pollution Adds to China’s Environmental Woes
2. Gore Launches Climate Change Awareness Campaign
3. WE Can Solve the Climate Crisis
4. Rise in Legal Philanthropy May Help China’s Environment
5. World Mayors Propose Urban Water Declaration
6. A City’s Ecological Footprint Bears No Comparison to its Actual Area
7. Environment Key to Poverty Reduction in Tanzania
8. Participatory Forest Management Project in Tanzania
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1. Imported Pollution Adds to China’s Environmental Woes
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/environment/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1141591
By Jiaquan Wang – March 27, 2007 – 5:00am - Seemingly a winner in the global balance of trade, China is in fact struggling against an undercurrent of imported waste. The country, already laden with domestic pollution, is rapidly becoming the planet’s...
Contributed by Giulia D'Amico on 02 Apr , 2008

2. Gore Launches Climate Change Awareness Campaign
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/environment/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1141603
By Ben Block – April 1, 2008 – 10:19am - Former Vice President Al Gore launched his $300 million global climate change awareness campaign on Monday.After earning an Oscar and Nobel Prize, Al Gore knows that when he speaks, people listen. Now his...
Contributed by Giulia D'Amico on 02 Apr , 2008

3. WE Can Solve the Climate Crisis
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/environment/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1141615
The We Campaign is a project of The Alliance for Climate Protection -- a nonprofit, nonpartisan effort founded by Nobel laureate and former Vice President Al Gore. The ultimate aim is to halt global warming. Specifically we are educating people in...
Contributed by Giulia D'Amico on 02 Apr , 2008

4. Rise in Legal Philanthropy May Help China’s Environment
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/environment/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1141627
Yingling Liu – March 31, 2008 – 6:00am - A new coalition of law firms in eastern China may represent a landmark rise in the use of legal measures to address the country's mounting environmental woes. Ten law firms in Zibo City, a heavy industrial...
Contributed by Giulia D'Amico on 02 Apr , 2008

5. World Mayors Propose Urban Water Declaration
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/environment/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1141656
Ben Block – March 28, 2008 – 11:59am - Ankara, Turkey's capital and second largest city, dried up last summer. Faced with low rainfall and a shrinking reservoir, the city of 4 million resorted to water rationing. Hospitals delayed surgeries. Stray...
Contributed by Giulia D'Amico on 02 Apr , 2008

6. A City’s Ecological Footprint Bears No Comparison to its Actual Area
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/environment/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1141702
By Tony Favro, US correspondent CityMayors.com- 2 April 2008: The US city of Rochester, New York State, and its immediate suburbs occupy about 160,000 hectares, or the same land area as London, England. The difference is that Rochester’s urbanized...
Contributed by Giulia D'Amico on 02 Apr , 2008

7. Environment Key to Poverty Reduction in Tanzania
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/environment/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1141839
Three years after adopting the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) approach, Tanzania will be taking another step, embarking on the second phase with a nationwide framework putting poverty reduction high on the country’s development agenda. The National...
Contributed by Immaculate Bugingo on 03 Apr , 2008

8. Participatory Forest Management Project in Tanzania
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/environment/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1141840
This project supports partnerships between forest communities and the Tanzanian Government, so that they can work together to conserve their fragile forest resources. Participatory management of the forest allows efficient resource use and...
Contributed by Immaculate Bugingo on 03 Apr , 2008