Maputo, December 2011  - The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, gathers environment ministers and negotiators from 195 countries from 28 November to 9 December. The Kyoto protocol,the world’s only binding climate agreement, expires at the end of 2012, and talks in Copenhagen and Cancún in the past two years have failed to replace or renew it.
Besides taking a national position at the negotiations, Mozambique also participates as a member of two negotiating blocks, the Africa Group and the G77 plus China. As a region, Africa is the least responsible for climate change but will be the most affected. Africa has been speaking with one voice but is struggling to be heard. In the negotiations, the African Position is:

Nampula, November 2011 -  Amina Raimundo, 30 years, is the Chief Extension Worker of Lumbo Millennium Village Team support, a women’s group working for the improvement and diversification of the food diet of two to five year-old children in Lumbo Millennium Village School in Ilha de Moçambique . Amina and two dozens of volunteers use typical products of the coastal districts of the province of Nampula such as maize flour, cassava flour, sesame oil, eggs, roasted peanuts and fish. Amina learned about techniques for cooking for children in a previous assignment in an international NGO project.

Maputo, November 2011 – The United Nations Program for Development (UNDP), launched yesterday November 2, worldwide, the Human Development Report 2011, “Sustainability and Equity: A better future for all”. Past Reports have shown that living standards in most countries have been rising - and converging - for several decades. The 2011 Human Development Report (HDR 2011), projects a reversal of the progress if environmental deterioration and social inequalities continue to intensify. Particular, the least developed countries are at risk of diverging downwards from global patterns of progress by 2050.