Wangari Maathai

(Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai of Kenya (C) and Vice President of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation Bernard Fautrier (R) sign a memorandum of understanding at Marriott Hotel in Copenhagen December 14, 2009. Sitting at left is Congo Basin Forrest Fund's co-chair and former prime minister of Canada Paul Martin and standing at left is Prince Albert II of Monaco. REUTERS/Casper Christoffersen/Scanpix Denmark...  

Kenyan environmental campaigner and Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai is being designated today (Tuesday) as a United Nations Messenger of Peace.  

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate and green advocate Wangari Maathai will become a United Nations Messenger of Peace with a special focus on the environment and climate change, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today.  

14 December 2009 – The Nobel Peace Prize laureate and green advocate Wangari Maathai will become a United Nations Messenger of Peace with a special focus on the environment and climate change, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today. Mr. Ban ...  

Kenyan born green campaigner Wangari Maathai is soon to become the UN peace messenger for climate change.  

Statement by Prof. Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Laureate, Goodwill Ambassador for the Congo Basin Forest Ecosystem, & UN Messenger of Peace at the opening of the High Level Segment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC):  

Kenya's environmentalist and Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai accepted her new status as the UN Messenger for peace even as she called on world leaders to seal an ambitious deal at the ongoing climate change summit in Copenhagen.  

Saving Earth's tropical forests will help avoid the worst effects of climate change. That's according to environmentalist and Nobel Peace laureate Wangari Maathai. She founded the Green Belt Movement, which has planted over 40 million trees across Africa. We spoke to her by phone. [...]  

The prize was handed over to him by the Kenyan Nobel Peace laureate, Prof Wangari Maathai, during an event organised in the Hague, before the Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and UNHCR regional representative for Western Europe, Mr Wilbert ...  

Wangari Maathai grew up in the shadow of Mount Kenya in Africa enjoying the benefits of the many trees around her village.  

Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – On the eve of the Summit on Climate Change scheduled to take place in Copenhagen (December 7-18), Agenzia Fides wishes to re-publish an article originally written for the magazine “The Harp” by missionary Fr. Tom Leyden, SVD (Society of the Divine Word), on the serious damages occurring in Kenya due to a drought that, according to experts, is being caused by the “El Nino” phenomenon. “Equatorial places evoke dreams of...