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Connie Hedegaard stressed the importance of setting tough targets for reducing carbon emissions when she gave the 2010 Barbara Ward Lecture
2010 Barbara Ward Lecture: Connie Hedegaard suggests tougher targets for CO2
… Connie Hedegaard is a Danish politician and European Commissioner for Climate Action. She was elected to the Danish Parliament at the age of … in 2007 she was put in charge of setting up the Danish Ministry of Climate and Energy. A notable achievement was her role in introducing … a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. She hosted the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in 2009. Shortly afterwards she was …
Event, 11 May 2010
Images such as this of a culvert constructed to allow villagers to cross the River Mahenya in Kenya, but which proves insufficient at times of extreme rainfall, are often used to tell the story of climate change in Africa. But Fatima Denton will challenge that narrative in her Barbara Ward Lecture (Photo: Robin Wyatt, http://www.robinwyatt.org/photography/)
Room for optimism on Africa, the "hopeful" continent
Insight, 21 October 2014
The Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group (Image: IIED)
Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group
… of Politics at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in 2010. Fatima Denton Fatima Denton is a lead author for the … calls for a new paradigm for African development in IIED's 2014 Barbara Ward Lecture Mariteuw Chimère Diaw Dr Mariteuw Chimere Diaw is the …
Article, 03 August 2015