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Women and Activists Lament Japan’s Election Outcome
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, Dic 18 (IPS) - The return to power of Japan's conservative and hard-line Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Sunday indicates that voters traded urgently needed social and environmental reforms for traditional male-led leadership, according to analysts here.
China is Opening a Confrontation on the Sea
- Inter Press Service
SAN SALVADOR, BAHAMAS, Dic 18 (IPS) - The victory of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the recent Japanese elections, with Shinzo Abe coming back as prime minister after five years, will probably mean an escalation of tensions with China. Both countries are embarking on a fresh burst of nationalism, but for different reasons.
Farmers Need to Grow Climate Smart
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Dic 18 (IPS) - Farmers cannot wait much longer for negotiators to reach an agreement on including a work programme on agriculture in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. And until one is approved, "it will continue to be difficult for farmers to produce the food needed, and at the same time reduce greenhouse gas emissions."
In Dominica, Diminished Rivers Among Climate Change's Effects
- Inter Press Service
ROSEAU, Dominica, Dic 18 (IPS) - Eighty-year-old Rupert Lawrence has been living in the Dominica capital, Roseau, for nearly 60 years. Like visitors to the island, he too is fascinated by the fact that the town square has a river running right through its centre.
Financial Crimes Cost Developing World At Least a Trillion Dollars
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 18 (IPS) - The developing world lost nearly one trillion dollars in 2010 as a result of corruption, tax evasion, and other financial crimes not involving cash transactions, according to a new report released here Monday by Global Financial Integrity (GFI).
Q&A: Documentary Tackles Child Abuse in Cuba
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Dic 18 (IPS) - "Child abuse merits a different, in-depth approach. The objective of this film is to make the problem visible and promote debate and reflection," says Eric Corvalán, director of a documentary that required "breaking through walls."
Rate of U.S., Russian Nuclear Disarmament “Slowing”
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 17 (IPS) - Although the United States and Russia have massively reduced their collective number of nuclear weapons since the heyday of the Cold War, the rate of that reduction is slowing, the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) warned Monday.
Environmental Uncertainties Halt Deep Sea Mining
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Dic 17 (IPS) - The world's first deep sea mineral (DSM) mining venture in the Bismarck Sea off the northern coast of Papua New Guinea in the southwest Pacific has come to a halt after two years of development.
Frolic Barefoot, But Don't Leave a Carbon Footprint
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Dic 17 (IPS) - As the world's most tourism-dependent region, with the sector accounting for one in every eight jobs, the Caribbean has much to fear from climate change.
At the Edge of the Carbon Cliff
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Dic 17 (IPS) - The most important number in history is now the annual measure of carbon emissions. That number reveals humanity's steady billion-tonne by billion-tonne march to the edge of the carbon cliff, beyond which scientists warn lies a fateful fall to catastrophic climate change.
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