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A HIGH-profile charitable foundation set up to build a school for impoverished girls in Malawi, founded by Madonna and fellow devotees of a prominent Jewish mysticism movement, has collapsed after spending $3.8 million on a project that never came to fruition. The board of directors of the organisation, Raising Malawi, has been ousted and replaced…

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“Public” and Private Sectors Fight Over $100bn Fund

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According to The Grauniad, there’s a big fight going on over who gets to control the $100 billion fund the UN is dispensing to poor countries via its “Climate Change Fund”. Large contracts for “climate change adaptation” works in developing countries might have been awarded by the fund to international companies rather than to host…

Why isn’t aid money going to Haitians?
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Why isn’t aid money going to Haitians?

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Three years on from Haiti’s devastating earthquake, the country’s UN special envoy has revealed little  official aid money has gone to the country’s government and organisations. Why is the funding bypassing Haitians? More on the BBC website. Saved as a pdf here: Haiti_quake_aid_money in case link goes. The only way to be sure your money gets through…

REDD does not reduce emissions, nor halt deforestation.

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REDD, or reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, is one of the most controversial issues in the climate change debate. The basic concept is simple: governments, companies or forest owners in the South should be rewarded for keeping their forests instead of cutting them down. The devil, as always, is in the details. More…

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