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<title>Dirty politics of climate deal-Pakistan experts        </title>
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<description><![CDATA[As part of a series on climate change reporting, Panos Radio South Asia continues to interact with climate change experts in the region to get their views on the significant Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen held in December 2009 to understand the mistakes that were made and what new lessons the countries could learn to prepare for the next climate change conference to be held in Mexico during the end of this year. In this edition of Development Dilemmas, we take you to Pakistan where journalist Asadullah Khan moderated the talk programme with experts in the country.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0545</pubDate>
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<title>India betrayed its own commitment to her people                                        </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The climate change conference in Copenhagen continues to remain under scrutiny by experts around the world. Indian experts have also criticized of how the conference was a disaster and they feel that India could have done more to make a difference to this so called historic climate change. In this edition of Development Dilemma, we bring to you voices of experts, academics and youth activists on how India could have played a better role. We will also discuss about the emergence of the BASIC group - the new alliance of countries including Brazil, South Africa, India and China to tackle the global climate change issues.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0545</pubDate>
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<title>Politicians can improve maternal health                </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Political will is the key answer to reducing maternal mortality in any country but this is yet to be seen in most of the countries of South Asia region. Maternal health experts often face enormous challenge to convince the politicians, especially those in the government to make maternal health a priority. Politicians however say that they accord top priority to the health of the mothers but it is the government which is failing to live upto their commitments. Panos Radio South Asia spoke to Shirin Sharmin Chaudhary, state minister of women\&apos;s and children\&apos;s affairs from Bangladesh and Syed Ghulam Mustafa, the parliamentarian from Pakistan to find some answers.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0545</pubDate>
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<title>24 hours before the climate deal                        </title>
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<description><![CDATA[In this edition of development dilemmas, Panos radio South Asia brings to you a special report on how the leaders of the least developed countries tried their best even in the last hour both through their emotions and presentation of hardest facts about what would happen if the climate change conference ended with up with a bad climate deal. But despite all their efforts and sounds of desperation, the UN-led climate conference ended still with a bad deal proving that leaders of the powerful nations are just politicians and that capitalists rule the world. The leaders of the small developing nations did all they could to convince the most powerful nations especially the United States, China and India to seal a deal that was relevant to the whole world. But all that was in vain.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0545</pubDate>
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<title>Himalayan Outcry                </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The climate change conference in Copenhagen has been going on in full swing but there has been no sign of much progress among the negotiators of the developed and developing nations. There is a lot of skepticism whether the much anticipated climate deal will be signed at all. This is especially causing a lot of concern among the most vulnerable countries including Nepal. In this edition, we take you to the Everest region to discuss how the decisions of the world leaders will have a direct impact on one of the world&apos;s most vulnerable regions.  Journalist Surendra Phuyal moderated this discussion near Kala Pathar, the base camp of Mount Everest. Our guests include Juddha Bahadur Gurung (JBG), member secretary of National Trust for Nature Conservation, government supported non-government organization working for conservation in Nepal. Dr Kani Sherpa (KS), medical doctor and a local from the Khumbu region. He works at Khumde Hospital which was built by Sir Edmund Hillary and I have Meg Bahadur Pande (MBP) deputy director general of Department of National Parks and Nature Conservation.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0545</pubDate>
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<title>South Asia has spoken                     </title>
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<description><![CDATA[With less than 10 days left for the cop15 to start, there is both optimism and skepticism running deeply in South Asia. From the Himalayas to the Coastlines of South Asia, voices are emerging from the vulnerable population to the NGO experts and government officials. Panos Radio South Asia brings to you this special edition of Development Dilemma to air the voices of the South Asians on what they can expect from the world leaders. These voices were collected during a climate change road trip with South Asian journalists organized by UK government&apos;s Department for International Development recently in November. We have ordinary South Asians, climate change experts, scientists and government officials sharing their views. We have with us farmers from Jomsom in Nepal, Muzafarpur from India and Chittagong of Bangladesh. Also sharing their voices include some prominent climate change scientists – Saleemul Haq (SH) and Atiq Rahman (AR) from Bangladesh, expert Jayashree Roy (JR) of Kolkata and senior government official of Nepal Batu Krishna Upreti (BKU). Mayor of Kolkata, Bikashranjan Bhattacharya also speaks his mind.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0545</pubDate>
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<title>Youth Speak on Climate Change</title>
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<description><![CDATA[We listen to four prominent Nepali youth vent out their views on climate change and the role their generation should play as the way forward for Nepal in view of the upcoming major climate change conference taking place in Copenhagen in December. Dawa Stephen Sherpa is a tourism entrepreneur and mountaineer who has scaled the world&apos;s tallest peak Everest twice and is now an ardent vocalist on the impact of climate change in the Himalayas; Gagan Thapa is a popular youth leader and the current Member of the Constituent Assembly; Nirvana Choudhary represents the younger generation of his widely successful family business that goes by the name Chaudhary Group in Nepal; and lastly, we listen to Shaliee Basnet who is a journalist turned mountaineer who was part of the First Inclusive Women Sagarmatha Expedition to scale Everest in Spring 2008.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0545</pubDate>
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<title>Reporting Climate Change</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Climate change has brought the media under scrutiny about whether journalists are playing their part well in addressing this most contentious global issue. Experts assert that this is not just an environmental or some science story but more related to humanitarian disaster, world economy and international politics. Climate change activists and experts say that that a large portion of the world population is still not fully informed or educated enough to be alert about the risks faced by the earth. They say that the journalists should do more to educate people in their countries - both south and north. Panos Radio South Asia met up with climate change experts and journalists in Paris during the Broadcast Media and Climate Change Conference organized by UNESCO to discuss media&apos;s role in climate change in September. We spoke to Mike Shanahan, press officer of International Institute for Environment and Development of UK; journalist Monjurul Ahsan Bulbul, head of ATN Bangla of Bangladesh; Joyeeta Gupta, professor of Climate Change Law and Policy at Institute for Environmental Studies in the Netherlands; Pema Choden, managing director of Bhutan Broadcasting Service from Bhutan; and Wijayananda Jayaweera, director of Communication Development Division of UNESCO in France.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0545</pubDate>
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<title>Politics of Climate Change</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Political debates still continue to overshadow much of the global climate change issue and we still have a long way to focus on how to reduce the vulnerabilities of the affected population. This is the same in South Asia where governments have still failed to reach a consensus on many contentious issues. In September, senior government officials from South Asia met during what was supposed to be a significant regional conference in Kathmandu hosted by the Nepali government with the support of the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, DFID and Embassy of Denmark. Panos Radio South Asia spoke to Jarullah Mansoori from Afghanistan&apos;s National Environmental Protection Agency, Bangladeshi Parliamentarian Saber Hossain Chowdhury, Maldivian Minister for Housing, Transport and Environment Mohamed Aslam, and Nepali Parliamentarian Sunil Babu Pant. We try to understand their political perspectives on climate change agenda and asked them how prepared their countries were for the much talked about conference in Copenhagen in December.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0545</pubDate>
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<title>Big Storm Coming</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In this edition of Development Dilemmas, we are in Pakistan&apos;s southern port city Karachi, whose far expanding coastal areas have been under the threat of major cyclones time and again. Though Karachi itself survived the threats but the cyclonic movements have caused tremendous loss of livelihood for the communities dependent on the natural resources in other parts beyond Karachi. Climate change is a global phenomenon but largely the people and government are unaware of its consequences and subsequent strategies to cope with the changes. First, we talk to Rab Nawaz, Coordinator for Natural Resources Management with World Wide Fund for Nature, Pakistan. We also talk to Tanveer Arif, Chief Executive Officer of the Society for Conservation and Protection of Environment; and, Arif Pervaiz, who is an independent environment expert. Our Pakistan correspondent Asadullah Khan moderates this session.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0545</pubDate>
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