Poznan, 8 December 2008 Recent scientific findings indicate government officials should set much higher greenhouse gas emission reduction targets than currently being negotiated, a conservative Member of the European Parliament said today in Poznan.

For the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), the Renewable Energy Directive, agreed today, confirms Europe as the leader of the energy revolution the world needs.

Birma Pariyar is one of an estimated 600,000 women in Nepal suffering from uterine prolapse, a debilitating condition in which the muscles supporting the uterus weaken, causing it to descend into the vaginal canal. Some of the women live for years with the uterus completely outside of the body. A third need immediate hysterectomies.

After months of delay, a new agreement between the President of Guatemala and civil society has breathed life into a long-running campaign to secure compensation for families that lost relatives during the notorious Rio Negro massacres in the early 1980s.

Thousands of Kosovar citizens took to the streets of Prishtina last week to protest a United Nations proposal to increase Serbia's influence in Kosovo. The proposal, put forth by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in consultation with the Serbian government, would give Serbia broad administrative powers over Serb majority areas within the Republic of Kosovo.

The opening session of EWEC 2009 will feature leading political figures

In the streets of Mustaffabad, a poor quarter of Delhi, children in sandals sit on top of piles of broken glass and twisted metal, smashing computer monitors. Men with blowtorches melt circuit boards, while nearby, women sort and scrub other boards with diluted acid. Charred fiberglass and copper dust litter the ground. This is the world of the electronic waste (e-waste) recyclers.

Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan geared towards improving basic hygiene and sanitation

The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) welcomes the key role given to offshore wind energy in the European Commission's Strategic Energy Review (SER) published this morning, and above all its commitment to publish a Blueprint for a North Sea offshore grid.

Story of a decade full of turmoil and struggles By Vidya Bhushan Rawat

TWO NORTH-AMERICAN LAUNCHES AT THE TREMBLANT FORUM CONFERENCE ON CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY

CEOs of Molson Coors Brewing Company and the Thomson Reuters Foundation to speak at Tremblant Forum conference