Congratulations to Anuradha Koirala, chief of Maiti Nepal and her hardworking team for being CNN Hero of the year 2010. MS Koirala has been nominated for the award in recognition of her outstanding work against human trafficking through Maiti Nepal. The team has rescued more than 12,000 women and girls from sex slavery. She will receive $100,000 to continue her work with Maiti Nepal, in addition to the $25,000 awarded to each of the top 10 CNN Heroes.
The online edition of CNN reported today, Koirala was chosen by the public in an online poll that ran for eight weeks on CNN.com.
Maiti Nepal is working since 1993 with special focus on preventing trafficking for forced prostitution, rescuing flesh trade victims and rehabilitating them. This social organisation also actively works to find justice for the victimized lot of girls and women by engaging in criminal investigation and waging legal battles against the criminals. It has highlighted the trafficking issue with its strong advocacy from the local to national and international levels. Read more here.
"Human trafficking is a crime, a heinous crime, a shame to humanity," Koirala said earlier in the evening after being introduced as one of the top 10 CNN Heroes of 2010. "I ask everyone to join me to create a society free of trafficking. We need to do this for all our daughters," the report said.
Addressing the event Koirala said, "This is another responsibility to me to work with all your support. We have to end this heinous crime. Please join hands with me to end this crime". Shre further said, "Please try to respect the youth. They are the ones who are going to build the next generation.
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GLOBAL TEMPERATURE TO RISE 3.5 DEGREE C BY 2035
Accroding to IEA (International Energy Agency), glogal temperatures are projected rise 3.5 degrees C. over the next 25 years. This shows rise in temperature prediction which was supposed to be 2-degree increase meaning meaning that governments worldwide will have failed in their pledge to hold global temperature at a 2-degree increase.
However, there is still a little hope if governments remove subsidies for fossil fuels and increase investments in renewable energy to make them cost competitive, then the Copenhagen Accord can still be upheld, says, Fatih Birol, the chief economist for the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA).
This information came just ahead of a summit starting Nov. 29 in Cancún, Mexico, for another round of climate talks.
Now it is utmost for the governments to support renewable energy to maintain 2 degree C rise. According to IEA, to keep temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees C., the share of renewables among total energy use must reach to 38 percent by 2035, governments must end their subsidies on fossil fuels, and global demand for coal, oil, and gas must plateau before 2020. The longer the world waits to tackle the issue the more expensive it will become. The IEA estimates the price tag of meeting the Copenhagen Accord pledges at $11.6 trillion through 2030, which is a $1 trillion increase from the IEA's projection once year ago.
But the world has never been quick to adopt new energy policies, as Monitor correspondent Douglas Fox pointed out in his cover story on the future of energy.
"Energy revolutions have usually been slow, starchy, conservative affairs, not overnight explosions; and the next one promises to be, too -- never before has humanity replaced 15 trillion watts of worldwide energy production," writes Mr. Fox. "Our success in making it happen quickly enough to stave off climate change will depend every bit as much on strategic use of fossil fuels now as it does on flashy new technologies in the future.
However, there is still a little hope if governments remove subsidies for fossil fuels and increase investments in renewable energy to make them cost competitive, then the Copenhagen Accord can still be upheld, says, Fatih Birol, the chief economist for the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA).
This information came just ahead of a summit starting Nov. 29 in Cancún, Mexico, for another round of climate talks.
Now it is utmost for the governments to support renewable energy to maintain 2 degree C rise. According to IEA, to keep temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees C., the share of renewables among total energy use must reach to 38 percent by 2035, governments must end their subsidies on fossil fuels, and global demand for coal, oil, and gas must plateau before 2020. The longer the world waits to tackle the issue the more expensive it will become. The IEA estimates the price tag of meeting the Copenhagen Accord pledges at $11.6 trillion through 2030, which is a $1 trillion increase from the IEA's projection once year ago.
But the world has never been quick to adopt new energy policies, as Monitor correspondent Douglas Fox pointed out in his cover story on the future of energy.
"Energy revolutions have usually been slow, starchy, conservative affairs, not overnight explosions; and the next one promises to be, too -- never before has humanity replaced 15 trillion watts of worldwide energy production," writes Mr. Fox. "Our success in making it happen quickly enough to stave off climate change will depend every bit as much on strategic use of fossil fuels now as it does on flashy new technologies in the future.
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