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Zoom Airlines failed with 60,000 forward bookings
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Favela Tourism in Brasil
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4th Tourism Industry and Education Symposium, Jyväskyla, Finland, 05.-07.03.2009
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TOURISM AND THE THIRD SECTOR: RELEASING THE POTENTIAL, Neuchatel, Switzerland, 18.-20.09.2009
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2009 ISTTE Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas, USA, 14.-18-10.2009
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8th Asia Pacific Forum for Graduate Students’ Research in Tourism, Seoul, 08.-10.07.2009
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Global: Cutting Fossil Fuel Subsidies Can Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions Says UN Environment Report
Scrapping fossil fuel subsidies could play an important role in cutting greenhouse gases while giving a small but not insignificant boost to the global economy a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) says.
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Africa Still Hampered by Lack of Geographical Data
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) could play a vital role in improving agriculture and boosting food security in Africa. However, only a few African countries are capable of developing such systems, partly because of a lack of basic geographical data.
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Rwanda: Country applies long-awaited CFCs ban
Over a decade after drafting the legislation, Rwanda is implementing a ban on gases that damage the ozone layer.
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Africa: Environment and health sectors must work together
A meeting of African scientists and ministers on the environment's impact on health is welcome, if long overdue, says an editorial in The Lancet.
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Africa: Millions may face water deficit by 2020
Between 75 and 250 million people in Africa stand at the risk of being faced with a serious water supply deficit by 2020, a Ghanaian environmental protection agency director predicted.
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Ghana: Accra Climate Change talks and matters arising
The issue of Climate Change has been made so complicated even though in reality its a simple one.
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Nigeria won't take loans to tackle climate change issues
Nigeria said on Monday at the ongoing Accra Climate Change Talks that it would no longer accept any credit facility to tackle issues of climate change.
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Africa urged on self-reliance
A conference on climate change has started in Nairobi with calls on African countries to stop relying on development aid.
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West Africa: Coastline to be submerged by 2099
Swathes of West Africas coastline extending from the orange dunes in Mauritania to the dense tropical forests in Cameroon will be underwater by the end of the century as a direct consequence of climate change, environmental experts warn.
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Global: Can the fight against Climate Change be won?
Once again, another round of talks has brought the world together in Accra. This time, the developed world is not being asked to fulfill hovering promises of handouts to poor, needy countries, but to show more commitment in the fight against a bane they mainly helped in bringing about ? climate change.
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Uganda: Government issues flood warning
Several parts of the country face flooding caused by heavy rains that are expected within the next two months, government has announced.
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Uganda: NFA Plants Trees Amidst Protests From Encroachers
Uganda's National Forestry Authority (NFA) has continued with the restoration of Wambabya forest despite resistance from the local people in Hoima district.
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Southern Africa: South Africa plan food security projects in SADC
Efforts to enhance food security, and to reduce the price of food in the shops are continuing, according to Manto Tshabalala Msimang who heads the social cluster of ministers, and now South Africa has been asked to develop a similar programme for the whole of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
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Africa: Pressure on to Reach Emissions Agreement
Industrialised and developing countries will be under intense pressure to agree on greenhouse gas emission reduction targets during week-long negotiations over future greenhouse gas emission targets which kicked off in the Ghana capital Accra on 21 August.
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Ghana: Kufuor calls for firm global action on climate change
About 160 nations resumed talks on a new climate treaty in Accra on Thursday with Ghana warning that time was short to work out a deal that will need billions of dollars a year to help the poor adapt to global warming.
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Nigeria, South Africa worst greenhouse gas emitters in Africa: experts
Nigeria and South Africa are the main emitters of greenhouse gases in Africa, accounting for almost 90 percent of the emissions in the continent, environmental experts have said.
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Africa: WHO and UNEP Join to Combat Environment-Related Disease
Diseases caused by changes in the environment accounts for a significant number of deaths in the African continent. In 2002 alone unsafe water, pollution, poor sanitation, inadequate waste disposal, insufficient disease vector control and exposure to chemicals claimed about 2.4 million lives.
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