"If you want to bring about change in the world, you can't just be an advocate of somebody else doing it,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

The World Bank projects hundreds of billions of dollars a year, in private and public money, will be needed for the climate change transition.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

Aid groups say 23 million people face starvation in East Africa because of a relentless drought some scientists say may be a result of climate change.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

The report,Promoting Development, Saving the Planet,said that up to $1 trillion a year would be needed to deal with issues of climate change in the future.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

The voice,believed to be that of Bin Laden, thus concludes President Obama is a weakened man and powerless to change course in Afghanistan because of "pressure groups."

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

continues to be a celebration of the profound change in this hemisphere as compared to many periods in the past when the hemisphere was marked by undemocratic governments.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

"Copenhagen can and must be the turning point in the world's efforts to prevent runaway climate change and usher in a new era of green growth for all,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

"The question is whether they can create a change in the outlook of Afghan people -- of farmers,and shopkeepers and others who may be intimidated by the Taliban."

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

And Africa,where approximately depends on rainfall, is particularly vulnerable, Climate change can be reversed, in part,he says, through reforestation programs, better land management and the rehabilitation of degraded crop and pasture land.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

One of the things that a lot of observers have been concerned about is the fact that there could be a change in tactics away from the kind of spectacular and very difficult operations to conduct to operations that could be launched in far greater numbers and might have less individual impact but which in the aggregate could sow a great deal of terror.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05