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last updated 11 November 2008
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Upcoming events related to energy policy and climate change |
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27 November 2008 |
Nuclear Watch public forum, organized by Nuclear Monitoring Network at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok (Seminar run in Thai) เวทีสาธารณะ "จับตานิวเคลียร์" โดยเครือข่ายติดตามนิวเคลียร์ จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย |
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3 December 2008
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Conference on Global Warming…The Next Steps; organized by Northern Climate Change Network, Urban and Environmental Studies Section, Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University, Thailand Research Fund/Northern Region (supported by HBF) Venue: Chiang Mai Community Church (The conference will be held in Thai) การประชุมเรื่อง “โลกร้อน...แนวทางก่อนสายเกินแก้” จัดโดยเครือข่ายภาคเหนือต้านโลกร้อน, กลุ่มเมืองและสิ่งแวดล้อม สถาบันวิจัยสังคม มหาวิทยาลัยเชียงใหม่, สำนักงานกองทุนสนับสนุนการวิจัย (สกว.) ภาคเหนือ, สนับสนุนมูลนิธิไฮริคเบิลล์ สถานที่: โบสถ์คริสตจักรที่ 1 เชียงใหม่ (ถนนเจริญราษฎร์ (ใกล้สะพานนวรัฐ) ตำบลวัดเกตุ อำเภอเมืองเชียงใหม่) |
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Langfassung des von Sven Hansen geführten und am 6. September in der "tageszeitung" (taz) erschienenen Interviews.
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With the adoption of a new Land Law in 2001, the Royal Government of Cambodia initiated a comprehensive land reform process. This includes for the first time registration of land owned by individuals and families. Guidelines for land registration strongly recommend Joint Land Titling for property owned by couples to ensure the protection of women's land rights during the process of registration. This study originates from the need to examine more in-depth the participation of women in this process and highlights a series of biases that endanger the recognition of women's land ownership. |
| "This publication aims at presenting different views on climate change and energy politics in Thailand. In globally sensitive fields like energy and climate change, policies, practices and (in)actions of today are predicted to have a strong and long-lasting impact on our environment – in fact on our lives. Therefore, people need to be able to take effective measures on a common ground for the world we live in. But measures can only be effective and democratic if there is transparency in numbers, so that impacts of energy and climate change policies can be assessed and openly debated..." |
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Community Radio Baseline Study supported by Heinrich Boell Foundation |
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Community Radio Baseline Study
by Northern People’s Sector Media Project, Northeastern Radio Federation, Eastern Community Radio Network, Southern Community Radio Network, Thai Volunteer Service Foundation | 158 Community Radio stations were surveyed through questionnaires, based on quantitative methodology, to analyze the situation of community radio stations in Thailand...
more ดาวโหลด ฉบับสมบูรณ์ เป็นภาษาไทย Download executive summary
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- About the Community Radio Baseline Study results: "Community Radio Blues", in: The Nation, 3 February 2008
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Im Würgegriff der Junta Ein Bericht zur Lage in Myanmar/Burma nach der Sturmkatastrophe, von Heike Löschmann, Mai 2008  |
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 © Moe Kyaw Lwin ("The Voice" journal, Myanmar/Burma)
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HBF's Asia Regional Summer School 2008: "Inequalities in Responding to Risk and Uncertainty: Investment Guarantees versus Social Insurance" |
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33 participants from 11 Asian countries attended the Regional Summer School held at Miriam College in Quezon City, Philippines, from May 19-25, 2008. |
| Thai Climate delivers the latest news and views on the Kingdom’s response to global warming. |

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Using laymen’s terms and a journalistic approach,Thai Climate aims to improve the understanding of, and heighten interest in, the varied issues surrounding climate change in Thailand.Most importantly, Thai Climate hopes to stimulate more vocal and active participation in meeting the challenges posed by global warming in Thailand.
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"Sustainable Rehabilitation? Experiences and Prospects" Tsunami Aid Watch Public Forum, 26 January 2008, in Bangkok |
| On the occasion of its official close in January 2008, the Tsunami Aid Watch programme invited to a public forum. The forum agenda included presenting and summarizing our work and the knowledge gained through our programme’s activities.
The forum provided a stage for the target communities and partner organizations to voice and to discuss their existing concerns with the public. Strategies and options in setting the course for the future recovery agenda were debated by participants from communities, their NGOs, aid agencies, government, media and academia. |
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Heinrich Boell Foundation presents study: The Right to Development in a Climate Constrained World |
A report by Paul Baer and Tom Athanasiou of EcoEquity and Sivan Kartha of the Stockholm Environment Institute, with the support of Christian Aid and the Heinrich Böll Foundation
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As a promoter of sustainable development in Southeast Asia, the HBF Chiang Mai Office was one of the conference's sponsors. In this capacity, we invited three resource persons to actively participate in the conference...
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Geneva-based policy consultant Aileen Kwa addressed the politics of trade and agriculture and impacts of international agricultural trade on local livelihood. Trade is often assumed by the developed countries for its broad based development; however, it ignores equal power relations between developing and developed countries, and between transnational corporations and local farmers.
Chomchuan Boonrahong, Director of the Sustainable Agriculture Community (ISAC), highlighted ISAC’s work on self-reliant and ecologically sound organic farming of small farmers, and growing demand in organic products in Chiang Mai.
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Slow Trade – Sound Farming. A Multilateral Framework for Sustainable Markets in Agriculture. Published by Heinrich Böll Foundation & misereor: Berlin 2007; 96 p.; ISBN 978-3-88916-271-7
To read more and download the reform proposal: http://www.ecofair-trade.org/en/web/Reform_Proposal.html
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"Natural Resource Governance in the 21st Century: Experiences in Central Africa and Southeast Asia" Graduate Seminar at Chiang Mai University, 26 October 2007 |
Speaker: Samuel Nguiffo, Director of Environment and Development Centre, a Cameroonian Environmental NGO
Samuel Nguiffos's presentation followed the content of the Heinrich Böll Foundation Memorandum “To Have and Have Not” on Resource Governance in the 21st Century, published on the occasion of the G8 Summit earlier this year in Germany. Highlight was placed on experiences in the implementation of governance mechanisms in natural resources management...
more information: in the invitation
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The Memorandum "To Have and Have Not", Recommendations for the developed nations on sustainable resource governance. |
The Heinrich Boell Foundation demands binding rules and regulations for a new, global resource policy. Less than a week before the G8-summit in Heiligendamm the Heinrich Boell Foundation, together with the German Federal Minister Wieczorek-Zeul, launched its Memorandum “To Have and Have Not” concerning the world-wide challenges in the resource sector....
Read more: Press Release (May 30, 2007) More on the issue on boell.de |
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