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21 September 2011 - Rwanda today won a United Nations-backed gold award for its forest promotion policies, an event that former United States track and field star Carl Lewis, himself a nine-time Olympic gold winner and now UN Goodwill Ambassador, called more important than the many medals he has garnered. Go here to read the rest: Forest policies...

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New York - Rwanda's National Forest Policy, initiated in 2004 and updated in 2010, has won the 2011 Future Policy Award as the world's most inspiring and innovative forest policy.The announcement was made yesterday by the World Future Council (WFC) at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Excerpt from: Rwanda: Country Wins 2011 Future Policy Award

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The Gender Policy Framework and Action Plan for the UNCCD and the Mainstreaming of Gender within the Three Rio Conventions Go here to see the original: Finland - Minister Heidi Hautala: key note -speech in the High Level meeting 'Gender Policy & Rio Conventions'

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Deserts keep growing around the world, but the process can be reversed if governments act in time, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday. The rest is here: World can beat desertification: UN chief

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Country launches website seeking help from world's top experts on how to achieve carbon neutrality by 2020 See the rest here: Maldives crowdsources 2020 carbon neutral plan

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KATHMANDU: Addressing the meeting of the UN General Assembly in New York today, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Narayan Kaji Shrestha termed land degradation and drought as serious problems facing the country. Here is the original post: Climate hazards costing nation dear: DPM

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LONDON (AlertNet) - Governments should invest more in agriculture and give poorer farmers better access to finance to help the world's 1 billion malnourished people weather a "perfect storm" facing the global food system, the international Red Cross movement said on Thursday. Read this article: Time to rethink global hunger fight - IFRC

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NRA Granted Intervenor Status in Wolf Delisting Challenge Go here to see the original: NRA Granted Intervenor Status in Wolf Delisting Challenge

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CNHI News Service – CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A public defender said Monday harsh justice for even minor crimes and lack of required courses for parole have caused serious overcrowding in West Virginia’s regional jails. Among the 1,600 inmates held in 10 regional jails, 1,100 are eligible for parole but cannot apply because the jails do not offer…[For full...

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The Sacramento Bee – September 21, 2011 Gov. Jerry Brown said this morning he will put on the November 2012 ballot a constitutional guarantee of funding for law enforcement realignment, the shift of certain offenders from state prisons to local control. “I’m not leaving Sacramento until we get a constitutional guarantee,” Brown told hundreds of law enforcement and...