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Salifou Sawadogo, Burkina Faso's minister of the Environment, speaks during the Seventh World Forum of Sustainable Development in Ouagadougou on October 9, 2009. African policy makers meet to discuss climate change just two months before a critical UN summit where African countries are poised to seek billions in compensation for the effects of global warming.'African countries have already made efforts and have drawn up plans on how to adapt to climate change,' said Burkina's Environment Minister Salifou Sawadogo and a member of the forum's organising committee. Getty Images logo Getty Images 1 month ago

Salifou Sawadogo, Burkina Faso's minister of the Environment, speaks during the Seventh World Forum of Sustainable Development in Ouagadougou on October 9, 2009. African policy makers meet to discuss climate change just two months before a critical UN summit where African countries are poised to seek billions in compensation for the effects of global warming.'African countries have already made efforts and have drawn up plans on how to adapt to climate change,' said Burkina's Environment Minister Salifou Sawadogo and a member of the forum's organising committee.

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  1. Afghan opposition candidate Abdullah Abdullah (R) shakes hands with United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon (C) as United Nation's special envoy to Afghanistan, Kai Eide (L, background) looks on prior to a meeting in Kabul on November 2, 2009. UN chief Ban Ki-moon flew into Kabul on November 2 to meet President Hamid Karzai over the Afghan election crisis with organisers to announce whether or not to scrap the poll after the only challenger pulled out. The surprise visit from Ban accompanied a diplomatic push to ensure the November 7 one-horse race does not take place, despite the initial insistence from some officials that it is too late to halt the process.
  2. Palestinian and UN vehicles take a flooded street following heavy rains in the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on October 29, 2009. Hamas said it will ban the organisation of elections in its Gaza Strip stronghold after president Mahmud Abbas called for a vote in the Palestinian territories.
  3. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (C) meets with French senatorial delegation members, Senator of Val-d'Oise Robert Hue (2ndL), Senator of Morbihan Josselin de Rohan (2ndR), Senator of Meurthe-et-Moselle Daniel Renier (R) and Secretary General of the French Delegates for the 64th Session of the General Assembly Philippe Thiebaud (L), at the United Nations headquarters in New York, October 28, 2009.
  4. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (2ndL) meets with French senatorial delegation members, Senator of Val-d'Oise Robert Hue (L), Senator of Morbihan Josselin de Rohan (2ndR) and Senator of Meurthe-et-Moselle Daniel Renier, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, October 28, 2009.
  5. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York, October 28, 2009. Ban Ki-Moon condemned the 'despicable and brutal' attack on a UN guesthouse in Kabul, which left five UN staff dead, but said the UN remained committed to Afghanistan.
  6. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York, October 28, 2009. Ban Ki-Moon condemned the 'despicable and brutal' attack on a UN guesthouse in Kabul, which left five UN staff dead, but said the UN remained committed to Afghanistan.
  7. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York, October 28, 2009. Ban Ki-Moon condemned the 'despicable and brutal' attack on a UN guesthouse in Kabul, which left five UN staff dead, but said the UN remained committed to Afghanistan.
  8. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York, October 28, 2009. Ban Ki-Moon condemned the 'despicable and brutal' attack on a UN guesthouse in Kabul, which left five UN staff dead, but said the UN remained committed to Afghanistan.
  9. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York, October 28, 2009. Ban Ki-Moon condemned the 'despicable and brutal' attack on a UN guesthouse in Kabul, which left five UN staff dead, but said the UN remained committed to Afghanistan.
  10. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York, October 28, 2009. Ban Ki-Moon condemned the 'despicable and brutal' attack on a UN guesthouse in Kabul, which left five UN staff dead, but said the UN remained committed to Afghanistan.
  11. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York, October 28, 2009. Ban Ki-Moon condemned the 'despicable and brutal' attack on a UN guesthouse in Kabul, which left five UN staff dead, but said the UN remained committed to Afghanistan.
  12. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York, October 28, 2009. Ban Ki-Moon condemned the 'despicable and brutal' attack on a UN guesthouse in Kabul, which left five UN staff dead, but said the UN remained committed to Afghanistan.
  13. An Afghan police commando keeps guard (L) while UN investigating personnel watch as an ambulance carrying two bodies leave The Bekhtar Guesthouse in Kabul on October 28, 2009, after a two-hour gunbattle with Taliban suicide gunmen killed six expatriate UN staff. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it is the first step in a campaign against the upcoming second round run-off in the presidential elections.
  14. An UN vehicle is seen through the bullet riddled guardhouse of The Bekhtar Guesthouse in Kabul on October 28, 2009, after an attack by Taliban suicide gunmen killed six expatriate UN staff. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it is the first step in a campaign against the forthcoming second round run-off in the presidential elections.
  15. An UN vehicle is seen through the bullet riddled guardhouse of The Bekhtar Guesthouse in Kabul on October 28, 2009, after an attack by Taliban suicide gunmen killed six expatriate UN staff. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it is the first step in a campaign against the forthcoming second round run-off in the presidential elections.
  16. KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - OCTOBER 28: Armed Afghan police guard a UN ambulance carrying bodies of victims recovered from the Bekhtar guesthouse after an attack by Taliban militants on Octber 28, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. According to the UN six of its staff are reported to have been killed and nine were wounded in the attack on the Bekhtar guesthouse. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack which took place as Afghanistan prepares for the upcoming second round run-off in the presidential elections.
  17. Armed Afghan police guard a UN ambulance carrying bodies of victims recovered from the Bekhtar guesthouse in Kabul on Octber 28, 2009, where UN staff were killed during an attack by gunmen. Six expatriate UN staff were killed and another nine wounded, including some seriously, in an armed attack on a central Kabul guesthouse on October 28, a UN spokesman said. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it is the first step in a campaign against the upcoming second round run-off in the presidential elections.
  18. A dead body is loaded onto a UN ambulance after casualties were recovered following an attack on the Bekhtar guesthouse in Kabul on Octber 28, 2009, where five UN staff were killed. The number of United Nations staff killed in an attack on a Kabul guesthouse on October 28 has risen to five, a UN spokesman in the Afghan capital said. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it is the first step in a campaign against the upcoming second round run-off in the presidential elections.

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  1. British Farm and Environment Minister Jim Fitzpatrick reviews documents on November 20, 2009 before an EU Agriculture Council meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels.
  2. Spanish Environment Minister Elena Espinosa arrives on November 20, 2009 for an EU Agriculture Council meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels.
  3. Philippine boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao (2L) joins hands with his wife Jinkee (2R) and Environment Secretary Lito Atienza (L) with former governor Chavit Singson (R) during mass in the Quiapo district of Manila on November 20, 2009, after he returned with a historic seventh career boxing title in as many divisions. The Philippines rolled out the red carpet in a rock star reception on November 20 for pound-for-pound king and newly crowned World Boxing Organisation welterweight champion Pacquiao. Earlier this week, Pacquiao brushed off rumours his marriage was in trouble amid reports he flew a starlet to Las Vegas to watch him win.
  4. SAN FRANCISCO - NOVEMBER 18: A Costco customer looks at a display of LCD HDTV televisions November 18, 2009 in San Francisco, California. The California Energy Commission voted unanimously to require all new televisions over 58 inches to be more energy efficient beginning in 2011. California became the first state in the nation to impose such stricts regulations in an effort to conserve energy and protect the environment.
  5. Indonesian activists wear masks featuring US President Barrack Obama (L), Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (2nd L), President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso(2nd R) and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd during a protest against biodiversity offset programs, in Jakarta on November 18, 2009. Scores of environment activists held a protest against the program of biodiversity offset as they believed that biodiversity offsets are conservation activities intended to compensate for the residual, unavoidable harm to biodiversity caused by development projects, and is not the real solution and will ruin ecological dignity of developing countries.
  6. Indonesian activists dressed in orangutan costumes attend an anti-deforestation and illegal orang utan hunting campaign in Jakarta on November 17, 2009. There are about 50,000 to 60,000 orangutans left in the wild, 80 percent of them in Indonesia and the rest in Malaysia's Borneo states of Sabah and Sarawak. A 2007 assessment by the United Nations Environment Program warned the charismatic red-haired apes will be virtually eliminated in the wild within two decades if current deforestation trends continue.
  7. Indonesian activists dressed in orangutan costumes attend an anti-deforestation and illegal orang utan hunting campaign in Jakarta on November 17, 2009. There are about 50,000 to 60,000 orangutans left in the wild, 80 percent of them in Indonesia and the rest in Malaysia's Borneo states of Sabah and Sarawak. A 2007 assessment by the United Nations Environment Program warned the charismatic red-haired apes will be virtually eliminated in the wild within two decades if current deforestation trends continue.
  8. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 16: Attorney General Eric Holder listens to his introduction before speaking at the Ronald Reagan Trade Center on November 16, 2009 in Washington, DC. Attorney General Holder spoke at a celebration to honor the 100th anniversary of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department.
  9. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 16: Attorney General Eric Holder walks on stage before speaking at the Ronald Reagan Trade Center on November 16, 2009 in Washington, DC. Attorney General Holder spoke at a celebration to honor the 100th anniversary of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department.
  10. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 16: Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the Ronald Reagan Trade Center on November 16, 2009 in Washington, DC. Attorney General Holder spoke at a celebration to honor the 100th anniversary of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department.
  11. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 16: Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the Ronald Reagan Trade Center on November 16, 2009 in Washington, DC. Attorney General Holder spoke at a celebration to honor the 100th anniversary of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department.
  12. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 16: Attorney General Eric Holder listens to his introduction before speaking at the Ronald Reagan Trade Center on November 16, 2009 in Washington, DC. Attorney General Holder spoke at a celebration to honor the 100th anniversary of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department.
  13. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 16: Attorney General Eric Holder walks on stage before speaking at the Ronald Reagan Trade Center on November 16, 2009 in Washington, DC. Attorney General Holder spoke at a celebration to honor the 100th anniversary of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department.
  14. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 16: Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the Ronald Reagan Trade Center on November 16, 2009 in Washington, DC. Attorney General Holder spoke at a celebration to honor the 100th anniversary of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department.
  15. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 16: Attorney General Eric Holder participates in a ceremony before speaking at the Ronald Reagan Trade Center on November 16, 2009 in Washington, DC. Attorney General Holder spoke at a celebration to honor the 100th anniversary of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department.
  16. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 16: Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the Ronal Reagan Trade Center on November 16, 2009 in Washington, DC. Attorney General Holder spoke at a celebration to honor the 100th anniversary of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department.
  17. British Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Hilary Benn (R) listens to a speech during a debate with Brazilian researchers about climate change and biodiversity, at Sao Paulo's Research Foundation (FAPESP), in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on November 16, 2009.
  18. British Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Hilary Benn speaks during a debate with Brazilian researchers about climate change and biodiversity, at Sao Paulo's Research Foundation (FAPESP), in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on November 16, 2009.

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