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NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT
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Energy Poverty: Challenges and Opportunities
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Improving energy services for poor communities remains a key challenge facing the development community. What are the mechanisms to reduce energy poverty and increase access to all communities? |
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How can innovations be scaled up? What are the current financing mechanisms in place and how do we leverage the private sector? |
Improving energy services for poor communities remains a key challenge for both developing countries and the development community. This panel will focus on current mechanisms in place to reduce energy poverty and explore how these innovations can be scaled up.
Photo: Theo R.
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Humanitarian Disaster Preparedness: Media and Technology
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How have mobile technologies changed the way we respond to natural disasters? |
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What role did mobile technologies play in Haiti’s post-earthquake response? |
This panel will look at the role of media and technology in humanitarian disaster preparedness, focusing specifically on the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Panelists will discuss how information sharing between large aid organizations, grassroots groups and local authorities strengthens the ability of relief workers to respond to natural disasters.
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From Cancun to Durban: What’s Next for Climate Change?
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With the diplomatic success of the Cancun Agreements, including the establishment of a Green Climate Fund, is the world finally on track to mitigate and adapt to global climate change? |
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In the run-up to Durban, South Africa, what will be the potential pitfalls in negotiations and further markers of success that the world should look for? |
With the diplomatic success of the Cancun Agreements, including the establishment of a Green Climate Fund, is the world finally on track to mitigate and adapt to global climate change? This panel will address the potential pitfalls in negotiations and further markers of success in the run up to Durban, South Africa.