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Welcome to the Planet 100 for November 19, 2009. Here's what we're covering today:
Planet 100: Food Summit is No Picnic (11/19)
The World Food Summit in Rome this week has disappointing results, a UN social media campaign puts the Hope in Copenhagen and reindeer herds struggle amid melting ice ? just in time for the holidays.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has pleaded with world leaders to rescue the 1 billion people now suffering from hunger but during the three-day World Food Summit this week in Rome that plea has fallen on deaf ears.
While it was hoped that rich countries would increase annual food aid, a draft declaration was vague and according to analysts will likely fall short of the UN goal to end world hunger by 2025.And adding insult to injury, only one G8 leader showed up, Italy?s Prime Minister Silvio Berlasoni, the host of the gathering.
Via: The Financial Express
LINK: Food summit turning into icnic for world leaders!
Photo: Food Summit ©AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano
Photo: Grain Harvest ©Medioimages/Photodisc/Getty Images
Photo: Refugees ©Getty Images
Putting the HOPE in Copenhagen
THE UNs social media campaign has steadily grown to include close to 400,000 who have signed an online petition and proclaimed their ?hopes? for the upcoming climate talks.
Via: MNN.com
LINK: Hopenhagen climate campaign rallies global community
Photo & Video: Hopenhagen.org
AND FINALLY?
Santa Claus could be grounded this year as hundreds of reindeer on their annual migration across a frozen lake drowned when the melting Arctic ice gave way beneath them. Another global warming warning, so let?s all put success in Copenhagen on our Christmas lists.
Via: Daily Mail
LINK: Hundreds of migrating reindeer drown as Arctic ice collapses beneath them
Illustration: Santa ©Stockbyte/Getty Images
Photo Reindeer: ©John Foxx/Getty Images
