BERLIN, Jan 29 (IPS) - Biodiversity, already decaying fast as a result of
climate change and intensive farming, is under further threat by
genetic modification (GM) of seeds, says a leading German
ecological activist.
CAIRO, Jan 28 (IPS) - Renewable energy projects in the Middle East could
be scaled back or scuttled
unless fresh sources of financing are
found.
NEW DELHI, Jan 26 (IPS) - While the BASIC bloc countries - Brazil, South
Africa, India and China - will
submit their plans for voluntary
mitigation actions by the Jan. 31 deadline
stipulated by the
Copenhagen Accord, they have taken care to emphasise that
the
agreement, reached at the end of the December climate change
summit in
the Danish capital, has no legal basis.
NEW DELHI, Jan 24 (IPS) - As environment ministers from Brazil, South Africa,
India and China (BASIC)
prepared to meet in the Indian capital
on Sunday to draw up a post-Copenhagen
strategy, there were
great expectations on the role they could play in pushing a
consensus on how the world should go about dealing with climate
change.
LIMA, Jan 21 (TierramГ©rica) - “The toads have disappeared from the
countryside because of climate change, and now there is nothing
to control the insects. Now we have to use chemicals to fight
pests, and that is killing the soil,” says worried Peruvian
farmer JuliГЎn Pilco.
BRUSSELS, Jan 20 (IPS) - Barely a month after world leaders gathering in
Copenhagen reached a weak
accord on climate change, the European
Union’s top polluters are fighting a
fresh battle to
dissuade policy-makers from taking more robust action.
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 19 (IPS) - The devastation caused by the earthquake in Haiti
last week has brought into sharp focus the threat of another
natural disaster waiting to happen: a sea-level rise that could
obliterate the world’s small island states, triggering fears
of mass migration.
VANCOUVER, Jan 18 (IPS) - Looking increasingly desperate after a
15-month-long hunt for a saboteur who has blown up six natural
gas installations in northern Canada, police arrested an
outspoken oil industry critic and then set him free a day later
without pressing charges.
Allegations of racism and financial impropriety have spiced up an otherwise
lacklustre two-week ritual in which nominees to the European Union’s executive
arm are quizzed by the EU’s only directly elected institution.
BERLIN, Jan 17 (TierramГ©rica) - At first glance, the Riswick farm is just another
modern agricultural facility: in the middle of broad cultivated
fields stand recently built barns, similar to so many other farms
across Europe.
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 14 (IPS) - Millions of people around the world who belong to
indigenous communities continue to face discrimination and abuse
at the hands of authorities and private business concerns, says a
new U.N. report released here Thursday.
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 14 (IPS) - Millions of people around the world who belong to
indigenous communities continue to face discrimination and abuse
at the hands of authorities and private business concerns, says a
new U.N. report released here Thursday.
KOLKATA, India, Jan 14 (IPS) - An ambitious plan to establish a chemical industry
complex in an ecologically fragile coastal zone of India’s
eastern state, West Bengal, has snowballed into a debate, with
the ruling communists facing resistance from environmental groups
and political rivals over the project.
WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (IPS) - The last 50 years have seen an unprecedented and
unsustainable spike in consumption, driven by a culture of
consumerism that has emerged over that period, says a report
released Tuesday by the Worldwatch Institute.
BUCHAREST, Jan 11 (IPS) - “It is important that we all come together, the
Green Party, NGOs and citizens, on major issues such as pollution
in big cities or deforestation,” says Remus Cernea, the new
executive president of the Romanian Green Party. “And we have
to use all means, from public protests and working with the media
to judicial action and party politics, in order to achieve our
goals.”