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Getting Climate Ready in Cannes

Amy Whalley, Tue, Nov 8 2011 10:41 AM

OK so we didn’t actually get to go and experience the joy of the French Riviera last week but the world’s leaders did. Last Thursday and Friday saw the latest meeting of the Group of 20 largest economies in the world in Cannes. Throughout...

Online Q&A: Chris Huhne, Climate Secretary

Hugh Reilly, Tue, Nov 29 2011 5:08 PM

Join our online debate and grill Chris Huhne, Energy & Climate Minister just before he heads out to the UN climate talks in Durban, South Africa to represent the UK.

Thursday 1 December, 7-8pm

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World Toilet Day: we need businesses to invest in sanitation

John Nuttall, Fri, Nov 18 2011 3:48 PM

John Nuttall is Managing Director of The Co-operative Pharmacy Saturday 19 November 2011 is World Toilet Day . It's a rare opportunity to highlight the daily struggle of the 2.5 billion people who don’t have access to even the most basic toilets...

The Duke and Duchess: A Media Spotlight

Michael Charouneau, Tue, Nov 29 2011 1:34 PM

The dust has finally settled at UNICEF after the royal media frenzy . The day was a resounding success. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had said they wanted to put the world’s spotlight back on the East Africa Crisis, and their visit to UNICEF’s...

Escaping the Thai floods at a Buddhist temple

Andy Brown, Tue, Nov 15 2011 9:55 AM

Twelve-year-old Tang sits with his sister Ice, 13, in a ‘child-friendly space’ at Laksi Temple evacuation centre, in Bangkok. They are surrounded by a mixture of squalor and beauty. Dozens of families sleep on mats on the floor of the temple, while golden Buddha statues look down from their pedestals, smiling enigmatically.

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Meeting the vaccine challenge in Bangladesh

Malcolm Bruce MP, Tue, Nov 15 2011 10:53 AM

I'm in Dhaka, Bangladesh as part of a parliamentary delegation looking at Bangladesh’s rapidly improving healthcare system and, in particular, their immunisation programmes, which the GAVI Alliance in partnership with UNICEF are funding and supporting...

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