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During a press briefing at the Copenhaguen summit, Angel GurrГa, OECD Secretary General, shared OECD recent analysis and the main policy conclusions on climate change. He presented what needs to be done in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and how investment in a greener future can be financed without impacting the competitiveness of our economies.
COPENHAGEN, Dec 16 (IPS) - Presidents Evo Morales of Bolivia and Hugo ChГЎvez
of Venezuela had harsh words for rich countries Wednesday,
accusing them of driving the COP 15 talks to the brink of failure
out of “selfishness” and supporting a “culture of
death.”
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-Sinking Feelings About Storing Carbon Emissions on the Farm
-California’s Troubled Waters
-L.A. cooperative provides communities with produce
-Farmers Reclaim Power!
-Free lunches handed out to highlight food waste
-Setting the Table (report)
A new paradigm is needed to ensure that countries take better advantage of the large potential benefits that can accompany the move towards greener economies. Countries still do not take full account of the costs of inaction on environmental challenges such as climate change, air and water pollution and inefficient use of energy and resources. Such costs of inaction can be considerable, especially for developing countries whose economies rely more heavily on natural resources and where climate change is expected to hit hardest.
BERLIN, Dec 15 (TierramГ©rica**) - In the decades since 1972, when Nobel laureate
economist James Tobin (1918-2002) first proposed it, the idea of
a tax on currency speculation has resurfaced and disappeared many
times, according to the economic tides.
Three weeks ago the US Government Accountability Office released a 50-page analysis of the nexus between biofuel production and water resources.
COPENHAGEN, Dec 14 (IPS) - Climate change is becoming an increasingly colossal
problem, and civil society, fed up with fruitless negotiations,
seems to have found its David: Maldives President Mohamed
Nasheed.
Canadian energy authorities have done it again. They missed their last rosy projection of future oil sands production, so they issued a new one: they merely pushed the big surge in production 5 years into the future.
COPENHAGEN, Dec 13 (IPS) - “Energy is an instrument of power. Whoever has
energy, controls the world,” Cuban expert Luis BГ©rriz said in
an address to Klimaforum, the civil society meeting being held in
parallel to the UN conference on climate change in the Danish
capital.
COPENHAGEN, Dec 12 (IPS/TerraViva) - Among the thousands of people who have flocked to
the Danish capital this week for the climate change summit and
dozens of parallel activities are activists of all ages and
stripes and representatives of the business community. TerraViva
caught up to some of them to find out why they are here and what
they hope to achieve.
COPENHAGEN, Dec 11 (IPS/TerraViva) - The world’s poorest countries want two billion
dollars from the developed world to replenish the Least Developed
Countries Fund.
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COPENHAGEN, Dec 10 (IPS) - Few are more aware of the devastating legacy
failure will leave than the teams of African negotiators in the
Danish capital to hammer out a final position.
Garrad Hassan has just signed a Framework Agreement with Hong Kong Energy (Holdings) Ltd (“HKE”) to provide technical consultancy services for its wind farm development in China. The Framework Agreement, which further cements Garrad Hassan’s position at the forefront of the Chinese market, will see its engineers providing a wide range of services including wind mapping, measurement, pre-feasibility studies and energy assessment.