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Posted on Sustainabilitank.info on September 30th, 2008 From: unobserver at iom.int ETHIOPIA – Skilled Expat Medics Arrive to Provide Medical Care, Training - A group 105 doctors and nurses, many of them members of the Ethiopian diaspora in North America, are this week travelling to Ethiopia to provide vital medical care in four hospitals in the capital, Addis Ababa. They will also share their knowledge with local health care professionals. A second group of 67 medics, members of the Ethiopian North American Health Professionals Association (ENAHPA), will be travelling to Ethiopia later this week. “These doctors, nurses and other medical professionals are participating in IOM’s Migration for Development in Ethiopia or MIDEth programme, a capacity building initiative aimed at strengthening the government’s institutional capacities to address some of this country’s acute human resources constraints,” explains Charles Kwenin, IOM’s Chief of Mission in Addis Ababa. The medics will deliver specialized health services, including cardiac surgery, pacemaker implants, oral and maxillofacial and reconstructive surgery, neurosurgery, ENT surgery and tele-opthamology. The mission will not only reach hundreds of Ethiopians with state-of-the-art medical services, but will also assist the country’s health sector professionals with hands-on training that will improve the standard of health care in major Ethiopian hospitals. IOM’s MidEth programme also extends beyond the health sector. Later this month two professors will travel to Ethiopia to teach at Addis Ababa University. One, a business professor, will remain in the country for three months. The other, an information technology specialist, will lead a one-month seminar for PhD students.
Ethiopian Airlines is also supporting the initiative, providing discounted airfares and bigger baggage allowances to transport some of the medical equipment. Permalink | ### |
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Posted on Sustainabilitank.info on September 29th, 2008 Even though the bill grew from 3 pages to 110 pages, the Conservative Republicans wanted no part of it. The bill was defeated 228 - 205 with 140 Democrats voting for it and 95 opposing. You can say thus that the Democrats stuck their neck out and were afraid to be seen as those that derailed the President and brought on a calamity - and a clear calamity is in the making indeed. Money runs away from the stock market and into US treasuries that give now next to no returns at all. So, investors look for a safe haven and really do not care about not making gains. The best deal is now a 3 months treasury bill - and some may even think of bars of gold in the attic. The European Central Banks have stopped selling gold. So, McCain came to Washington to help the President but his party failed him. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the Democrat Leader of the House of Representatives, in introducing the Bill, said the truth - it was the nearly eight years of Bush that destroyed the Clinton savings and caused the present situation - this made the Republicans so furious that they decided to bite their own hands and vote NO! That is what the Republicans want us to think now - as we said - they built a trap for the Democrats - A You Die if you-do-or if -you-don’t. The election for President is not the issue now - it is the election of the House members. Those folks did not want to be accused of having agreed to the bailout and will now fight the Democrats on very skewed levels. McCain has problems, and Palin is irrelevant to the process. The President of the Ukraine got the lesson of his life - not everyday you can see a superpower in its nakedness. ———- A vindicated Europe celebrates ‘civilised’ capitalism. As Peer Steinbrück pondered recent events on Wall Street, Germany’s hard-nosed finance minister could not help indulging in a bit of futurology. “When we look back 10 years from now,” he told journalists on Thursday, “we will see 2008 as a fundamental rupture.” The US, he said, would lose its role as a “finance superpower”. Yet while US commentators may have interpreted such remarks as heralding a statist renaissance in Europe, there are few signs yet that the old continent is turning its back on the free market. Yes, there is anger in Berlin and Paris at Washington’s refusal - up until after the outbreak of the subprime crisis - to heed European calls for more regulated markets. The proposals Berlin had made during its presidency of the Group of Eight industrial nations last year “elicited mockery at best or were seen as a typical example of Germans’ penchant for over-regulation”, Mr Steinbrück said. Crisis management alone would not rebuild the lost confidence, he added. “We must civilise financial markets, and not just through moral appeals against excess and speculation.” *** In a speech in Toulon on Thursday, Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, said the world would have to learn the lessons of the financial crisis and rethink the values and practices of globalisation. This would mean shifting the emphasis from speculation to entrepreneurship and restoring a proper balance between the market and the state. “The market economy is a regulated market, a market that is at the service of development, at the service of society, at the service of all. It is not the law of the jungle,” he said, predicting the end of laisser faire capitalism. Officials in Berlin point to calls by Gordon Brown, UK prime minister, to curb excessive bonuses as evidence that a new consensus is emerging in Europe that could bridge the old divide between Britain and the continent. No doubt the Europeans will now find new vigour in defending those areas that remain untouched by liberalisation. Mr Steinbrück said the country’s three-pillar banking system, with state, co-operative and commercial banks, had proven more robust than its two-tier US counterpart. The crisis also presents Europe with an opportunity to push for more international co-operation, as it has done before in areas ranging from international security to climate change. Mr Sarkozy has supported the expansion of the G8 to include big emerging economies such as China and India, as well as calling for reform of the International Monetary Fund. “We cannot continue to manage the economy of the 21st century with the instruments of the 20th century economy,” he said. Yet it would be wrong to read such statements as precursors of a general retreat of liberalism on the continent. In his speech, Mr Sarkozy defended the essence of capitalism that had permitted the “extraordinary surge of western civilisation over the past seven centuries”. He also said it would be a “historic error” to return to the collectivism of the past that had been responsible for so many disasters. In Germany, the world’s largest exporter of goods, politicians are all too conscious of how much their country has benefited from trade liberalisation. Meanwhile, the last thing Ms Merkel and Mr Steinbrück want is for the radical Left party, a coalition of defectors from the Social Democratic party and former East German Communists, to turn the crisis into ammunition for next year’s general election. In June, Ms Merkel told the FT she was worried that attempts to discredit free-market liberalism would play into the left’s hands. As Mr Steinbrück put it before German legislators: “Neither calls for more state nor naive beliefs in market forces will help us in our task of shaping the economy in a way that will allow all to benefit from stable, crisis-free growth.” Permalink | ### |
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Posted on Sustainabilitank.info on September 25th, 2008 From: cgay at servidor.unam.mx The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) announces: POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS AVAILABLE AT THE CENTRO DE CIENCIAS DE LA ATMOSFERA (Campus Mexico City) The Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera (CCA) belonging to the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), in Mexico City, is offering a one year postdoctoral position, with the possibility of renewal, for carrying out research in Mexico related to the main themes of Atmospheric Sciences. Fellowships include a monthly stipend ($ 2,000 Dlls.) and a medical insurance. Knowledge of Spanish is an advantage although not indispensable. The main research themes are: 1) Aerobiology More detailed information on the current specific research themes can be found at www.atmosfera.unam.mx. For information about fellowships you may contact: Permalink | ### |
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Posted on Sustainabilitank.info on September 17th, 2008 The Importance of Military Organizations in Protecting the Climate: 2008. http://www.igsd.org/docs/Workshop%20Anno… Paris, France, November 3-5, 2008. Organized and Sponsored by the EC Defence Environmental Network (DEFNET), the US Environmental Protection Agency, the US Department of Defense, the United Nations Environment Program, the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), Ministries of Environment and Defence Ministries of France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom and others (invited and to be confirmed). Join in Paris this November to learn how militaries worldwide are responding to threats of climate change and acting now reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This workshop is scheduled to complement the EU Member States DEFence Environmental Network (DEFNET) meeting, which will be held on the 6 and 7 November. This workshop will: ***** ***Conference Outcomes*** A conference report will be published with consensus findings, including proven strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while improving military effectiveness. The outcomes of this conference will: * Document the importance of military leadership in technology, operations, and knowledge sharing. ***** ***Who Should Attend?*** This workshop is likely to attract a large and influential audience and capable presentations. Those who should attend include: * High-ranking military officials ***Location and Registration Information*** Kristen Taddonio, US Environmental Protection Agency, Taddonio.kristen at epa.gov For more information on registration, please contact Veronique Millon, Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development, Permalink | ### |
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Posted on Sustainabilitank.info on September 17th, 2008 From: 123lisa at gmail.com A Call for Papers from Sustainable Development Law & Policy for its upcoming Fall 2008 issue on the global food industry. Requirements for Submissions: • Articles or abstracts should be submitted to sdlp at wcl.american.edu. • Articles must be no longer than 15 pages (double spaced, 12 point font, Times New Roman print). • Articles should be submitted electronically in Microsoft Word or a Word-compatible software program. • All articles should attempt to follow the format presented in previous issues of SDLP. This includes an introduction, which outlines the rest of the article, and a conclusion. Please refer recent issues for examples. • Please provide complete citations to every fact, opinion, statement, and quote that is not your original idea. Complete citations include: the name and author of the cited document, title of publication or publisher, date of publication, relevant page numbers, and specific website address. • We encourage the submission of photographs and graphics to accompany your article. Please send proof of permission to use others’ images. • Please include a 3-4 sentence biography of yourself and indicate whether you would like your email address included with the published article. We reserve the right to reject submissions and hold all submissions on file for later publication. We also reserve the right to revise your submission and/or cut text. You will have the opportunity to accept or reject any revisions. SDLP accepts submission of timely articles that have already been published elsewhere, so long as permission of the previous publisher is received. SDLP is available online at LexisNexis, Westlaw, VLex and Hein Online and is widely distributed throughout the Washington, DC community, law and graduate schools, and to representatives of international organizations worldwide. You can also view the pdf versions of recent SDLP issues at http://www.wcl.american.edu/org/sustaina…. Permalink | ### |
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Posted on Sustainabilitank.info on September 16th, 2008 From: lorenz.martin at oeschger.unibe.ch 8th International NCCR Climate Summer School with participation of “Climate variability, forcings, feedbacks and responses: the long-term 30 August - 4 September 2009, Grindelwald, Switzerland The topics covered at the NCCR Climate Summer School 2009 will include: The Summer School invites young researchers from all fields of climate Lecturers for keynotes and workshops (confirmed): The Summer School is open to young researchers (PhD students and DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 20 DECEMBER 2008 On-line information and the application form are available at Contact: Permalink | ### |
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Posted on Sustainabilitank.info on August 27th, 2008 From: Jeremy.Houssin at erm.com ERM and UNEP organise a training workshop in Dakar, Senegal, from the 8th to 12th of September 2008, to help African project sponsors. You will find below and attached to the mail a call for CDM projects and projects in the Voluntary Market.
A Call for CDM projects and projects in the Voluntary Carbon Market for project sponsors in Senegal who want to participate in a Capacity Building workshop. Types of projects eligible: Workshop financing: For the project sponsors who are already registered by the UNEP for the Africa Carbon Forum, please indicate your UNEP registration number. Pilot projects and case studies in asset classes such as plantation forestry, agro forestry, and bio fuels will open up opportunities for African participation in the CDM and the voluntary carbon markets. In addition, the project will facilitate the establishment of a stakeholder network for technical cooperation and linkages between carbon buyers and sellers. The programme’s findings will also serve to contribute to the policy debate towards a post-2012 climate regime, casting light on key issues such as eligibility of avoided deforestation and land degradation projects in CDM-type initiatives. CASCADe Project in Senegal and Benin: For more information : Houssin Jérémy Permalink | ### |
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Posted on Sustainabilitank.info on August 22nd, 2008 From: cseipt at agu.org
It has come to the attention of the Executive Committee of the African Climate Change Fellowship Program (ACCFP) that Moroccan citizens have been excluded from Program participation via the requirement that eligible applicants be citizens of member states of the African Union. We apologize for this oversight and assure you that the exclusion was unintentional. We would like to amend this requirement so that our intentions are clear: Participation in the African Climate Change Fellowship Program is open to citizens of all African nations. It is important to note that the citizenship requirement is one of four general requirements that all applicants must meet to be eligible for a Fellowship award. In addition to being a citizen of an African nation, all applicants must also meet the following general eligibility criteria: The ACCFP aims to support African professionals, researchers and graduate students to undertake activities that will enhance their capacities for advancing and applying knowledge for climate change adaptation in Africa. The Program is jointly administered by the global change SysTem for Analysis, Research and Training (START), the Institute of Resource Assessment (IRA) of the University of Dar es Salaam and the African Academy of Sciences (AAS), with financial support from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID). If you have questions about the Program, please contact the Pan-African START Secretariat at pass at ira.udsm.ac.tz. We thank you for your continued interest in the ACCFP and for your understanding in this matter. Again, we apologize for this oversight and any confusion that it has caused. Please help us to spread the word about this exciting opportunity to other colleagues and friends. Forward this email to qualified individuals that might be interested to apply! Best, Clark Seipt Permalink | ### |
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Posted on Sustainabilitank.info on July 9th, 2008 From Carbon Finance - http://env-finance.msgfocus.com/q/12ix9u… Carbon jobs, clean jobs, green jobs. The explosive growth in the global carbon market is a mixed blessing for growing carbon businesses – it’s getting tougher to find good staff. CF Jobs gives you invaluable recruitment support, whether you’re filling a position in your organisation or finding your next job. CF Jobs, the online recruitment service from Environmental Finance Publications, will help you fill current vacancies within your organisation or help you find your next job. Find a position: Organisations currently seeking candidates include: . . . and some of the positions currently available via CF Jobs are: CF Jobs is promoted to a carefully selected list of more than 35,000 environmental finance and carbon finance specialists around the world – you can tap into this audience by advertising your vacancy for as little as £200/€255/$395. To list a vacancy or to discuss the options available please Environmental Finance Publications is the trading name Permalink | |