CLIMATE CHANGE: Africa Readies United Front for Crucial Copenhagen Talks
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Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 22 (IPS) – As African leaders meet in Ethiopia to discuss the devastating impacts of climate change, the United Nations has released a report warning that the economically-troubled continent will be one of the hardest hit by the ravages of global [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE: How Eco-Friendly Is Natural Gas?
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Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES, Oct 22 (IPS) – Natural gas, a non-renewable yet plentiful energy source, is being promoted by the gas industry as part of the solution to climate change. But experts say that its contribution to global warming is only slightly less than that of coal and oil.
Methane, [...]
ENVIRONMENT: Developing Nations Refuse to Ditch Kyoto Protocol
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By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK, Oct 9 (IPS) – As the countdown continues towards a United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen in December, a seemingly intractable tussle between negotiators from the developing and developed world has begun to take shape over international commitments to slash greenhouse [...]
ENVIRONMENT: Back to Traditional Farming to Beat Climate Change
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By Anil Netto*
PENANG, Malaysia, Oct 9 (IPS/IFEJ) – When organisers of an international conference on climate change and the food crisis first scheduled the event here for late September, little did they realise the event would be sandwiched by two typhoons buffeting the region. Ironically, [...]
ASIA: Climate Change Puts Mekong Region’s New Species at Risk
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By Joel Chong
BANGKOK, Sep 25 (IPS) – The rich and unique biodiversity of the Mekong region, which has been discovered only since the recent years, is likely to be put at risk by environmental impacts that climate change is expected to bring, says the World [...]
Counting the Cost- Climate Change
AlJazeeraEnglish – September 25, 2009
As world leaders gather for the UN General Assembly and G20 summits climate change has been high on the international agenda. In a special programme Counting the Cost looks at the economics of goin…
CLIMATE CHANGE: ‘15 Days to Copenhagen’
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Analysis by Julio Godoy
BERLIN, Aug 17 (IPS) – The disappointing results of negotiations in Bonn last week are indication that industrialised countries are unwilling to make substantial contributions to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions.
They failed once again to meet the expectations formulated in 2007 [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE: 75 Million Environmental Refugees to Plague Asia-Pacific
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By Neena Bhandari
SYDNEY, Aug 4 (IPS) – Pacific Islanders, aiming to secure their very survival, are calling for immediate commitments from the developed world to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 45 percent by 2020.
"For us, climate change is a reality. We have [...]
