COPENHAGEN, Dec 18 (IPS/TerraViva) - Unless the world comes to its aid, Bangladesh says
the vulnerability of its
agriculture sector to climate change
could spell severe consequences for its
millions of people, who
stand to lose their main source of livelihood.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
COPENHAGEN, Dec 9 (IPS) - “We don’t need to change the climate, we
need to change trade,” said Brazilian activist Marta Lago at
Klimaforum, the civil society meeting held in parallel with the
climate change summit in the Danish capital.
COPENHAGEN, Dec 8 (IPS/TerraViva) - Two blocks from the Metro station on the busy M-1
Line, the first indication that pedestrians are slipping into the
space-time continuum known as the “Free City” is the
ubiquitous graffiti and occasional “boom!” of small
explosive devices like M-80s echoing through the cobbled streets.
COPENHAGEN, Dec 7 (IPS/TerraViva) - Betrayal and backsliding by rich countries marks
the beginning of the final negotiations for a global climate
treaty, according to many developing world participants at the
U.N.-sponsored talks here.
BOSTON, Dec 6 (IPS/TerraViva) - As the U.S. climate delegation arrives in
Copenhagen nearly empty-handed, watchdog groups back at home say
they know why: a political system gone astray due to the
influence of huge amounts of corporate cash.
NAIROBI, Dec 5 (IPS) - Mauritian experts are helping set up cogeneration
systems to feed the hunger for electricity in Tanzania, Zambia
and elsewhere. An example of how appropriate technology can be
applied to problems common to countries in the global South.
MEXICO CITY, Dec 4 (IPS/IFEJ) - The Mexican company BioFields will begin production
in 2014 of an algae-based biofuel at a site 300 kilometres from
its border with the United States, which is likely to be its
biggest customer.
COPENHAGEN, Dec 3 (IPS) - A small group of indigenous people have travelled
here to the historic Copenhagen climate talks to show negotiators
dramatic documentary videos they made about the immediate impacts
of climate change on their homelands and way of life.