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St. Xavier’s Global Earth Summit IV – International Conference on Global Climate Change and Water Disasters concludes

Kolkata March 29th 2015. The St. Xavier’s Global Earth Summit IV a 3 day International Conference on Global Climate Change and Water Disasters, concluded today. The conference, the first of its kind where Jesuits from around the world participated discussed the threats posed by the twin threats facing mankind – Global Warming and Climate Change …

Jesuits: the Global Educationists to Discuss Climate Change

  St.Xavier’s Global Earth Summit IV, with the conference theme “Global Climate Change and Water Disasters” will be held on March 27-29, 2015 at DhyanAshram, Konchowki. The Conference is being organised by the Department of Environmental Science, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata in association with the Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat (SJES), Rome, Kolkata Metropolitan Development …

ASEAN Continues Support to Philippines After Haiyan

ILOILO, 18 February 2015 – The first stakeholders’ meeting and inception workshop was held on 17-18 February in Iloilo City, Philippines, to launch the Adopt-a-Municipality for Resilient Recovery – a project under the ASEAN Assistance for the Recovery of Yolanda-Affected Areas in the Philippines.   The Adopt-a-Municipality project is an initiative of ASEAN in modeling …

Typhoon Hagupit makes landfall in the Philippines

Greenpeace stands in solidarity with the Filipino people Manila, Philippines, 6 December 2014 – Typhoon Hagupit made landfall in Dolores, Eastern Samar in the Philippines at around 9:15pm local time on Saturday, the official Philippine meteorological bureau PAGASA said. PAGASA earlier estimated that Typhoon Hagupit had maximum sustained winds of 175 kmh near the center, …