Developing world blamed for global warming
“Urgent: help women have fewer children so as to combat global warming.” According to the Le Monde, this is the gist of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) State of World Population 2009 report, which points to uncontrolled natality in developing countries as one of the main drivers, and risk factors, of global warming. Three weeks shy of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 15), and even as family planning is merely marking time in the poorest regions of the world, the UNFPA is bent on broaching in Copenhagen a demographic issue hitherto unbroached in international negotiations. On this head, notes Le Monde, “a recent study cited by the UNFPA finds that a dollar invested in family planning and girls’ education will reduce greenhouse gas emissions every bit as much as a dollar spent on generating wind energy.”
Two camps, two theories, and two visions of France: 18 years after the massacre of 800,000 Tutsis, the precise role played by Paris is still the subject of heated debate, fueled by the findings of successive criminal investigations. 
Agree to new austerity measures or risk being kicked out of the eurozone: that’s the alternative presented to Athens on the day the euro group is meeting. It’s a situation Greek politicians have failed to avoid, regrets To Vima. 
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