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Articles from 2005

Media Coverage of the Poverty Environment Partnership
Policy Dialogue & Head of State Dinner
14 September 2005

The Poverty-Environment Partnership (PEP) events for the 2005 World Summit attracted media coverage from Associated Press, BBC, The Economist, Inter Press Service News Agency, the Panafrican News Agency (PANA) Daily Newswire, the NY Daily News, the Philadelphia Inquirer, UN Radio, UN Wire, US Weekly, Life & Style, Reuters, the Environmental News Service, the Environmental News Network, www.washingtonpost.com and www.teenpeople.com, among others. The following outlets attended the event: AP, BBC, Extra, Life & Style Weekly, In Touch Weekly, Teen People, the Daily Monitor, the Mail & Guardian, US Weekly, Inside TV, MTV News, Latina Magazine, Eco 4 the World and The Gambia Press. Below is a list of outlets that the AP article ran in.

These various media covered the Head of State dinner event at the Boathouse in Central Park where over 400 guests attended, including UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and his wife, the Presidents of Finland, Gambia and Kenya, Kemal Dervis, Klaus Toepfer, Al Gore, Jeffrey Sachs, Ted Turner, Swedish Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds, and celebrities Wyclef Jean (The Fugees and founder of Yéle Haiti), Angelique Kidjo (African and French music superstar), film actress Rosario Dawson (Kids, Men In Black II, Josie and the Pussycats, Alexander, Sin City), film actress Zoe Saldana (Center Stage, Crossroads, Drumline, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Terminal, Haven), TV actress Sophia Bush (One Tree Hill) and film actress Kerry Washington (Ray, Last King of Scotland, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Fantastic Four, Save the Last Dance). Paparazzi photographers covered the arrivals of the celebrities.

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Articles Table of Contents

1. Associated Press: "Leaders and celebrities promote programs to preserve environment, end poverty"
   
   
2. BBC: "Where are the green goals?"
   
   
3. The Economist: "Greening the books - Ecosystem services"
   
   
4. Reuters: "Spending on environment yields big returns-report"
   
   
5. Environment News Service: "World Summit 2005 Opens With 150 Leaders at UN Headquarters"
   
   
6. Washington Post: "Investments Can Have Environmental Returns"
   
   
7. Philadelphia Inquirer: "Poverty and the environment"
   
   
8. U.N. Radio: "Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Interview"
   
   
9. Teen People: "Teen People Hot List: Sophia Bush"
   
   
10. Inter Press Service News Agency: "New Report Fails The Gender Test"
    
    
11. Panafrican News Agency (PANA) Daily Newswire: "Conservation Union launches poverty reduction initiative"
    
    
12. NY Daily News: "Rush & Molloy: Saving the world"
    
    
13. Daily Monitor (Kampala): "World Leaders Meet to Discuss Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)"
    
    
14. UN Wire: "Development Energy & Environment"
    
    
15. US Weekly: "Angelina and Brad's Poverty Activism"
    
    
16. Life & Style: "News Flash"