NAIROBI (Reuters) – Industrialized countries have a moral responsibility to help Africa mitigate the effects of climate change, Kenya’s Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai said on Friday.
“For the global South, especially Africa, environmental issues are not a luxury,” the environmental activist said in an article in Kenya’s Business Daily newspaper on the final day of climate change talks in Bali.
“Arresting the world’s warming and protecting and restoring our natural systems are issues of life and death for much of the world’s population.”
The first African woman and ‘green’ activist to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004, Maathai said the industrialized world needed to work with southern hemisphere nations to stop the devastation linked to global warming.
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Noelle d'Estries, an early GO employee who took on the varied roles of Community Manager, green celebrity blogger, and more. She currently runs worstcookever.com GO entered Noelle's life in February 2007 while she was burning tires in her backyard. A phone call from the green gods at GO, burnt out the fires. Now, Noelle happily wears her GO sweatshirt while eating organic veggies and asking for paper, not plastic. A regular at the local farmer's market, Noelle shuns raking leaves and lawn maintenance, while making gourmet foods constantly. When not staring at her computer screen, she spends time with her equally attractive dog, Tessa, cat, Tim and lover Paul. She currently holds all three point records at RIT and could eat avocados and drink wine for the rest of her life.
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