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UN: World will miss economic benefit of 1.8 billion young people | Environment | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/oct/26/un-economic-benefit-young-people

When young people can claim their rights to health, education and decent working conditions, they become a powerful force for economic development and positive change. “This opportunity [for] a demographic dividend is a fleeting moment that must be claimed quickly or lost,” said the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), in its Global Population Report, published just days before the UN forecasted the world population will pass 7 billion. Of this 7 billion, 1.8 billion are aged between 10 and 24, and 90% of those live in the developing world.

#démographie

GM crops promote superweeds, food insecurity and pesticides, say NGOs | Environment | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/oct/19/gm-crops-insecurity-superweeds-pesticides

Genetic engineering has failed to increase the yield of any food crop but has vastly increased the use of chemicals and the growth of “superweeds”, according to a report by 20 Indian, south-east Asian, African and Latin American food and conservation groups representing millions of people.

#OGM #alimentation #agribusiness #érosion

US must stop promoting biofuels to tackle world hunger, says thinktank | Environment | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/oct/11/us-biofuels-world-hunger-thinktank

“Biofuel subsidies should be curtailed in order to minimise biofuels’ contribution to volatility in food markets. It also means that biofuel mandates should be removed.”

#faim #biocarburants #rapport

Emails reveal close ties between Obama, Clinton and tar sands lobbyists | Environment | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/oct/06/obama-clinton-tar-sands-lobbyist

Environmental groups have raised new concerns about the close ties between Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and lobbyists for the controversial Keystone XL project to carry crude from the tar sands of Alberta to the refineries of Texas.

#Lobbying #Obama #pétrole

South Pacific islands face water crisis after six months of low rainfall | Environment | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/oct/04/south-pacific-water-crisis-rainfall

Crops are wilting, schools have shut their toilets and government officials are bathing in lagoons because of a severe shortage of fresh water in a swath of the south Pacific.

The island groups of Tuvalu and Tokelau have declared emergencies, relying on bottled water and seeking more desalination machines. Parts of Samoa are starting to ration water.

Supplies are precariously low after a severe lack of rain in a region where underground reserves have been fouled by salt water from rising seas that scientists have linked to climate change.

Un article sur la pénurie d’#eau douce dans les îles du Pacifiques touchées par la sécheresse et l’élévation du niveau de la mer
#climat