[RED DEMOCRATICA] Cookstove movement is just one example of "impact investment"

 

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	October 5, 2011 | News covering the UN and the world Sign up  |  E-Mail this  |  Donate Cookstove movement is just one example of "impact investment" The public-private partnership between the United Nations Foundation and the U.S. State Department to promote clean cookstoves in poor countries is an example of the so-called impact investment that is "the current rage" in economic development, write Tarun Khanna, a professor at Harvard University, and Jayant Sinha, head of the Indian arm of the Omidyar Network global philanthropic fund. The $50 million project, among others, points to the ways in which microfinance and impact investing can stimulate change when both governments and markets fail, they say. Project-Syndicate.org (10/4)      Palestinians expand campaign to UNESCO  Carter looks to fund guinea worm eradication  Study: IV contraceptive increases HIV risk  China's 2020 emissions to exceed estimates  China, Russia defend Syria vetoes  Career Center  Skip to a section:  United Nations | Health & Development | Women & Girls | Climate and Energy | Peacekeeping and Security Wednesday is World Teacher's Day. Send an email to your teacher, share your photos more: bit.ly/nD7ZGU @UNESCOnow" @un "As the drug trade -- and the organized crime it spawns -- spread through Latin America, the region is facing an epidemic of gun violence, according to new U.N. data. There are some 80 million firearms currently in the hands of civilians across Latin America, foreshadowing a crisis in civilian gun deaths." UN Dispatch Palestinians expand campaign to UNESCO Palestinian authorities will soon seek membership in UNESCO as part of a broader drive to attain increased international recognition. The United Nations Security Council is continuing debate of a Palestinian request for UN membership that the U.S. and Israel remain publicly opposed to. Google/The Associated Press (10/5), SeattlePI.com/The Associated Press (10/4)      Actor urges UN to free "thoroughly stuck" Western Sahara Award-winning actor Javier Bardem on Tuesday accused Spain, France and the U.S. of turning a "blind eye" to human rights abuses in Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony trapped in a kind of legal limbo since it was annexed by Morocco in 1975. The UN peacekeeping mission there is the only one that does not monitor human rights, Bardem told the world body's obscure Fourth Committee, which focuses on decolonization. ForeignPolicy.com/Turtle Bay blog (10/4)      U.S. Congress draws fire on aid suspension U.S. administration and Palestinian officials are criticizing a decision from the U.S. Congress this week to freeze $200 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority. Republican legislators were moving in direct response to the Palestinian bid for United Nations membership but are also planning additional legislation that could dramatically alter the U.S. relationship with the world body. Peter Yeo, executive director of the Better World Foundation, said the threatened cuts present an opportunity to "to educate members [of Congress] about the economic and security and political interests of the United States" that are aided by a robust, well-funded UN. ForeignPolicy.com/Turtle Bay (10/4), BBC (10/4)      Other News UNESCO again puts off decision on controversial science prize The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (10/4)      UNDP official is confirmed as Haiti's prime minister The Miami Herald (free registration) (10/4)      UN expresses "great concern" over Bulgaria anti-Roma demonstrations The New York Times (tiered subscription model)/The Associated Press (10/4)      Carter looks to fund guinea worm eradication Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is conducting a funding drive to secure commitments to help eradicate guinea worm, a parasitic disease that remains endemic in only four African countries. British authorities have indicated they will commit $31 million to the effort over the next four years if other donors also participate in the eradication drive. San Francisco Chronicle/The Associated Press (10/4)      Red Cross makes push to reach starving Somalis The International Red Cross has launched a major push into al-Shabab controlled areas in a bid to reach 1 million famine-affected Somalis. The Red Cross secured access to the areas after negotiations with the militant group, which evicted international aid groups from areas under its control two years ago. BBC (10/5)      Other News UN's Amos to visit North Korea to assess need Google/Agence France-Presse (10/4)      WFP enables wireless money transfers for Cote d'Ivoire poor AlertNet (10/4)      Study: IV contraceptive increases HIV risk A hormone shot commonly used by African women to prevent pregnancies is apparently making both women and men more vulnerable to HIV infection, even doubling the risk for women, according to a study. "If it is now proven that these contraceptions are helping spread the AIDS epidemic, we have a major health crisis on our hands," said Isobel Coleman, director of the women and foreign policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations. The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (10/3)        From lemonade stand to homebuilding, girl helps Haitians An 11-year-old girl from the U.S. state of Florida has raised more than $170,000 used to pay for the reconstruction of 27 houses, as well as a school, in a community near Leogane, Haiti. Sixth-grader Rachel Wheeler originally hoped to collect enough money -- by distributing self-addressed envelopes and selling lemonade, bracelets, potholders, baked goods and hot chocolate -- for only half the number of homes after the village was devastated in 2010 by an earthquake. The Miami Herald (free registration) (10/3)      UNESCO hosts forum on education gender gaps Academics, government and NGO representatives have gathered for a two-day UNESCO forum to discuss the causes behind gender equality in education. Enrollment ratios have increased around the world over the past decade, but large gaps remain in Sub-Saharan and Arab countries, UNESCO said. Afrique En Ligne (10/4)      China's 2020 emissions to exceed estimates Despite its rapid adoption of clean energy in the near term, China's economic growth puts it on track to exceed previous carbon dioxide emission projections for the year 2020, scientists with Climate Action Tracker say. In the short run, though, China is likely to cut emissions more than it pledged in the recent Cancun agreement, again due to its clean-energy technology commitment. Reuters (10/4)      Myanmar dam project stoppage frays China ties Myanmar's sudden decision to shelve construction of a controversial dam -- which would have flooded an area in the northern part of the country roughly the size of Singapore -- is straining ties with China, a company from which was slated to build the $3.6 billion project. On Friday, Myanmar President Thein Sein said the dam went against the will of the people. The Wall Street Journal (tiered subscription model) (10/4), Reuters (10/4)        Other News Governments must trim fossil-fuel subsidies, say OECD, IEA The Wall Street Journal (tiered subscription model) (10/5)      Report: China will meet carbon emission reduction goals AlertNet/Reuters (10/4)      China, Russia defend Syria vetoes China and Russia defended their vetoes Tuesday of a UN Security Council resolution that would have condemned Syria over its six-month crackdown on anti-government protesters, saying that the measure was an intervention that would not have helped end the violence that the UN estimates has killed more than 2,700 people. The U.S. ambassador to the world body, Susan Rice, said the vetoes were a "cheap ruse by those who would rather sell arms to the Syrian regime than stand with the Syrian people." 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