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Monday, August 31, 2009
Geneva, August 31, 2009 - Kofi Annan, President of the Global Humanitarian Forum, called on the international community to create ways for people to defend themselves from climate change.
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Friday, August 28, 2009
Geneva, 28 August 2009 – With 100 days until the start of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen on December 7, 2009, the Global Humanitarian Forum calls for governmental leaders to redouble their efforts to reach a fair, robust and binding agreement on climate change.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Reducing global warming risks is in India’s interest
A chorus of criticism has greeted India’s endorsement of the 2°C goal for containing global warming risks at the Major Economies Forum (MEF).
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Mary Robinson, Global Humanitarian Forum´s Board Member, participated in the largest Swedish political meeting of the year, the Almedalen Week. together with Margot Wahlström, Vice-President of the European Commission, and Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway advocating the importance of climate justice.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
For people on Kiribati and Tuvalu facing increasing climate pressures, the description “refugee” has too many negative connotations, write Jane McAdam and Maryanne Loughry
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
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“This is a wonderful example of a timely and innovative approach that sets a lead for other watch makers to follow, tck tck tck”, said Forum CEO, Walter Fust upon presentation of the world’s first carbon neutral watch by Swiss watch firm Wyler Genève.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Can I start by welcoming you to Geneva and this very important conference.
Looking around the room, it is good to see so many people who attended the Global
Humanitarian Forum’s inaugural conference last year but also to welcome new faces here for the first time.
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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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Friday, June 12, 2009
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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Friday, May 29, 2009
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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Monday, May 04, 2009
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On Wednesday 18 March Walter Fust, CEO of the Global Humanitarian Forum, and Philippe Burrin, Director of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva, signed at Villa Rigot a memorandum of understanding which paves the way for cooperation of the two institutions on the upcoming inaugural Youth Forum of the Global Humanitarian Forum. |
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
23-24 June
Geneva, Switzerland
The world’s foremost gathering point for the broader humanitarian community.
Personally chaired by Kofi Annan, the 2009 Forum is the second edition of the Global Humanitarian Forum’s annual centerpiece event. It will be held from Tuesday 23 to Wednesday 24 June in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009
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From 17 – 19 June 2009 the Global Humanitarian Forum will host its inaugural Youth Forum entitled Young Adults 4 New Results in Geneva. Young participants from the Geneva region will come together to learn, experience and develop new and innovative solutions as to how today’s youth can address the human impact of climate change.
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Friday, January 30, 2009
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The Global Humanitarian Forum co-organized today’s panel on Climate Justice at the Open Forum Davos to discus solutions to the injustices of climate change and actions needed at the international level.
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
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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. |
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Monday, December 15, 2008
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The Global Humanitarian Forum convened today a group of 20 experts in the fields of ethics, human rights, climate change, and poverty to begin the formulation of a set of universal climate justice principles.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
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12 November 2008 - Global Humanitarian Forum President, Kofi Annan, was awarded the International Rescue Committee's Freedom Award for individual efforts to promote greater freedom from harm. |
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Thursday, October 16, 2008
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Global Humanitarian Forum CEO, Ambassador Walter Fust, addressed the 2008 Donor Forum of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies on the topic of Humanitarian Diplomacy.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
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GENEVA, 17 September 2008 - Global Humanitarian Forum CEO Walter Fust issued ten key considerations relating to the human dimensions and impact of climate change.
Climate change has a human face.
Climate change imposes new humanitarian challenges.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
| GENEVA, 25 June – At least 1.6 billion people in the world have no access to electricity. What can be done to make clean, efficient energy available to them? Nobel Peace Prize winner, Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says one of the keys is research and development into new technologies. |
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
| GENEVA, 25 June – The annual meeting reached a climax with a keynote debate between Javier Solana, the European Union's head of foreign and security policy, and Jeffery Sachs, a special adviser to United Nations Secretary-General on the millennium development goals, on the best ways of tackling climate change. |
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
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GENEVA, 25 June – As the main proceedings of the annual meeting drew to a close, the Forum’s President, Kofi Annan, summarised the conclusions of many of the roundtable discussions held over the past few days.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
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GENEVA, June 24 2008 - Climate change is very real and it is happening now. These were the words Kofi Annan, President of the Global Humanitarian Forum, used to greet participants at the organisation’s first annual meeting. Those present included heads of states, government ministers, CEOs of major corporations, international agencies, global financiers and journalists. |
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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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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
| GENEVA, June 24 - Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is entrusted with helping the world’s governments move beyond the Kyoto Protocol and agree on a new action plan to fight global warming. |
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
GENEVA, June 24 - A roundtable discussed the link between climate change and security and how better cooperation could be encouraged among peoples and nations to avoid conflict. The group concluded that climate change did not necessarily lead to wars but was certainly a source of tension because of competition for dwindling resources.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
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GENEVA, June 24 - Drought, changing rainfall patterns, insect infestations and other climate changes occupied participants at a roundtable on food security. Five strategies were proposed to help strengthen food security in the face of worsening climate risks.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
| GENEVA, June 24 - The separate worlds of business and international organisations collided for the first time during the Annual Meeting during a debate on climate justice. |
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
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GENEVA, 24 June – Many developing countries lack any insurance coverage for climate risks but this could soon change. Insurance and development experts at this particular roundtable agreed that risks could be insured and that for every one US dollar spent on insurance policies, four US dollars could be saved in responding to climate related disasters.
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Monday, June 23, 2008
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GENEVA, 23 June 2008 - Thirteen testimonies, five nations: videos of encounters with these individuals show that climate change is already having a profound and negative impact on people’s lives.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
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GENEVA, Switzerland, 10 June – In the aftermath of Myanmar’s Cyclone Nargis and in view of the ongoing global food crisis, the Forum’s President Kofi Annan has called together more than 200
leaders from all sectors of society worldwide to urgently address what he calls “the human face of climate change”: the world’s poorest and most vulnerable populations affected by increasingly violent storms, drought and floods.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
GENEVA, Switzerland, 22 April – Kofi Annan today called for united action to support the world’s poorest in adapti
ng to climate change. “Those who contributed least to climate change suffer most”, says Kofi Annan; “helping the po
or adapt is our responsibility, and the polluter must pay.
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