Megan Rowling
Before joining AlertNet, Megan Rowling worked as a freelance print and television journalist in Britain, France and Japan. At AlertNet, she specialises in the humanitarian impact of climate change. In 2008, she also spent several months working part-time as a media relations officer for the British Red Cross. She has an MSc in development management.
G8 signals on climate change fall short - experts
Author: Megan Rowling
As in the run-up to any Group of Eight summit, talk is swirling about the promises the leaders of the world's richest nations might make when they meet in Italy this week.
Aid groups, climate scientists and developing countries say the signals on curbing global warming are promising but don't go far enough. In particular, they say any commitments to curb climate change will lack focus unless they include short-term targets for reducing carbon emissions by 2020.
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Author: Megan Rowling
As in the run-up to any Group of Eight summit, talk is swirling about the promises the leaders of the world's richest nations might make when they meet in Italy this week.
Aid groups, climate scientists and developing countries say the signals on curbing global warming are promising but don't go far enough. In particular, they say any commitments to curb climate change will lack focus unless they include short-term targets for reducing carbon emissions by 2020.
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Information 'weakest link' in managing climate risk - report
Author: Megan Rowling
Rani Begam's father lost four sisters and his first wife in a cyclone - a tragedy that inspired her to take part in a Red Cross project that gives villagers in southern Bangladesh information about what to do when storms and floods are approaching.
Each of the 85 cyclone shelters in the coastal area has a team of 12 female volunteers who teach other women first aid and how to stockpile supplies ahead of a potential weather disaster.
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Author: Megan Rowling
Rani Begam's father lost four sisters and his first wife in a cyclone - a tragedy that inspired her to take part in a Red Cross project that gives villagers in southern Bangladesh information about what to do when storms and floods are approaching.
Each of the 85 cyclone shelters in the coastal area has a team of 12 female volunteers who teach other women first aid and how to stockpile supplies ahead of a potential weather disaster.
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UN aid chief urges free movement for Sri Lanka's war-displaced
Author: Megan Rowling
The Sri Lankan government should move faster on allowing freedom of movement for nearly 300,000 war-displaced civilians living in camps to prevent them becoming "internment" facilities, the U.N.'s top aid official says.
Following the end of the civil war in mid-May, Colombo argues it needs time to weed out suspected Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels, who may be mixing with residents, before permitting people to move in and out of the camps in the north. But John Holmes, the U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, told AlertNet the screening process is moving too slowly.
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Author: Megan Rowling
The Sri Lankan government should move faster on allowing freedom of movement for nearly 300,000 war-displaced civilians living in camps to prevent them becoming "internment" facilities, the U.N.'s top aid official says.
Following the end of the civil war in mid-May, Colombo argues it needs time to weed out suspected Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels, who may be mixing with residents, before permitting people to move in and out of the camps in the north. But John Holmes, the U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, told AlertNet the screening process is moving too slowly.
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Climate change cash key to unlocking progress on global deal
Author: Megan Rowling
As negotiators in Bonn plod through the first draft texts about a new U.N. climate treaty, due to be agreed in Copenhagen in December, the real attention is on European Union finance ministers meeting in Luxembourg on Tuesday.
They will discuss proposals on international financing for climate change measures, including a report that says poor countries will need about 100 billion euros ($142 billion) a year by 2020 to help them cut emissions. The leaked document also says climate change adaptation costs in all developing countries could reach 23-54 billion euros per year in 2030.
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Author: Megan Rowling
As negotiators in Bonn plod through the first draft texts about a new U.N. climate treaty, due to be agreed in Copenhagen in December, the real attention is on European Union finance ministers meeting in Luxembourg on Tuesday.
They will discuss proposals on international financing for climate change measures, including a report that says poor countries will need about 100 billion euros ($142 billion) a year by 2020 to help them cut emissions. The leaked document also says climate change adaptation costs in all developing countries could reach 23-54 billion euros per year in 2030.
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Breaking the silence around prematurity and stillbirth
Author: Megan Rowling
Grace Tutiwe Ngoto, a Malawian public health worker, waited nearly seven years to have a baby. But when her daughter, Tuntufye, was born in February 2006, she arrived two months early, weighing only 2.2 pounds. "I was even afraid myself to touch her," says Grace. "I felt very bad because I didn't know that she would survive."
Tuntufye did survive, and is now a bright, impish little girl who's already going to school, where she's learning her ABCs and how to count to 10. She has lots of friends and loves to dance, according to Save the Children, which has been supporting a method of caring for premature babies, known as Kangaroo Mother Care, in the country since 2002.
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Author: Megan Rowling
Grace Tutiwe Ngoto, a Malawian public health worker, waited nearly seven years to have a baby. But when her daughter, Tuntufye, was born in February 2006, she arrived two months early, weighing only 2.2 pounds. "I was even afraid myself to touch her," says Grace. "I felt very bad because I didn't know that she would survive."
Tuntufye did survive, and is now a bright, impish little girl who's already going to school, where she's learning her ABCs and how to count to 10. She has lots of friends and loves to dance, according to Save the Children, which has been supporting a method of caring for premature babies, known as Kangaroo Mother Care, in the country since 2002.
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