By pkullander on
Monday, June 29, 2009
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♦ Mr Annan joined by Bob Geldof & David Jones (Global CEO, Havas
Worldwide) for ‘tck tck tck: Time for Climate Justice’ campaign launch at 56th
Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival
♦ Campaign urges people from around the world to become ‘climate allies’ |
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By pkullander on
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
| Two-day meeting highlights plight of the poor in dealing with ‘greatest humanitarian and environmental challenge of our time’
Kofi Annan, President of the Global Humanitarian Forum (GHF), today called for urgent action to protect the citizens of the world, particularly the poor, from the impact of climate change.
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By pkullander on
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Global Humanitarian Forum, Ericsson, WMO, and Zain and other mobile
operators to deploy up to 5,000 automatic weather stations in mobile network
sites across Africa, where less than 300 are reporting today
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By pkullander on
Friday, June 12, 2009
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Global Humanitarian Forum convenes major international conference exclusively devoted to human impact of climate change
Wide-ranging group of concerned international leaders to attend |
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By pkullander on
Friday, May 29, 2009
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First ever report exclusively focused on the global human impact of climate change calculates more than 300 million people are seriously affected by climate change at a total economic cost of $125 billion per year
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By pkullander on
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
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PRETORIA, South Africa – A high-level dialogue on Climate Justice will be held at the University of Pretoria, jointly with the Global Humanitarian Forum, on Saturday 28 February.
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By pkullander on
Thursday, January 29, 2009
| DAVOS,Switzerland,
Kofi Annan, President of the Geneva-based Global Humanitarian Forum, announced here today a global partnership with French advertising group Havas’s agency EURO RSCG Worldwide. EURO RSCG will drive the communications of the Forum’s global global campaign for climate justice centred on the ongoing United Nations negotiations for a post-Kyoto climate agreement, which conclude in December this year.
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By pkullander on
Thursday, October 09, 2008
| GENEVA, 09 October 2008 – The Global Humanitarian Forum, presided over by Kofi Annan, has the pleasure to announce the decision of the foundation board of the Hans Wilsdorf Foundation of 23 September 2008 to support the activities of the Forum with the sum of CHF 500'000.- for 2008 and the same amount for 2009. |
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By pkullander on
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
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GENEVA, 25 June 2008 – Kofi Annan said today at the first annual meeting of the Global Humanitarian Forum, which he presides, that a global alliance for climate justice is a necessity. Annan, joined by some 300 participants agreed to support efforts to establish to establish climate justice as the guiding principle for a post-Kyoto global climate agreement.
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By pkullander on
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
| GENEVA, June 24 - The human face of climate change was personified by five young people taking the stage at the Annual Meeting with passionate and sometimes tearful accounts of how climate change had affected their communities. The audience was so moved that they gave the speakers a standing ovation. |
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