The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): China’s Long March to 2049
Download Poster Here Also see the 2018 publication, “One Belt, One Road: China’s Long March Toward 2049“
United Nations Water Conference holding from March 22 – 24, 2023 in New York
Theme: Integrative Highland to Ocean (H2O) Action for Disappearing Deltas: Towards a UN Convention on Conserving River Deltas Venue: United Nations (UN) Headquarter, Side Event Room A Date: Thursday, March 23, 2023 Time: 12:30 pm – 13:45pm, New York Time CONCEPT NOTE – Download Here Introduction Climate change […]
Central American farmers suffer major crop losses, need food aid – U.N.
Anastasia Moloney, Thomson Reuters Foundation May 2, 2019 Farmers in the ‘Dry Corridor’ lost more than half of their maize and beans in 2018 to climate-linked drought or unusually heavy rain BOGOTA, May 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – More than one million people across Central America need food […]
ECWC commissions Gidabo Irrigation Dam
Jean Marie Takouleu February 22 2019 Ethiopian Construction Works Corporation (ECWC) has completed the Gidabo dam in central Ethiopia. Its putting into service was the subject of a ceremony attended by the Prime Minister. ECWC commissions Gidabo Irrigation Dam©Nataly Reinch/Shutterstock The Gidabo dam in the Oromia region has […]
Worries on El Niño winds
Ethan Harfenist June 2015 With the weather pattern known as El Niño currently stirring up the Pacific Ocean, experts are expressing concern that parts of Cambodia may soon face drought conditions that could rival the devastating effects the weather system brought nearly 20 years ago. A cyclical changing […]
El Nino to cause 80 percent rise in East Africans needing aid: UN
PHYS.org October 23, 2015 Heavy floods and drought sparked by the El Nino weather phenomenon in East Africa in coming weeks could see the number of people needing aid soar by over 80 percent, the UN warned Friday. El Nino is sparked by a warming in sea surface […]
