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CLIMATE CHANGE-CUBA: 'Energy is an Instrument of Power'
- Inter Press Service
'Energy is an instrument of power. Whoever has energy, controls the world,' Cuban expert Luis Bérriz 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.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Scientists Turn to Inuit for Clues
- Inter Press Service
The Inuit people who live in and around the Arctic are among the worst victims of global warming, and scientists are now turning to their experience and indigenous knowledge to understand the staggering effects of climate change.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Scientists Turn to Inuit People For Clues
- Inter Press Service
The Inuit people who live in and around the Arctic are among the worst victims of global warming, and scientists are turning to their experience and indigenous knowledge to understand the staggering effects of climate change.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Hope in 100,000 Flavours
- Inter Press Service
The midpoint of a conference on climate change in which tremendous hope has been invested; unsurprising then that demonstrations of popular desire for decisive action against global warming took place around the world.
ENVIRONMENT-ICELAND: Do-it-Yourself Renewable Energy Catches On
- Inter Press Service
When Innovation Centre Iceland (ICI) managers began courses in farming renewable energy in October they were unprepared for the enthusiastic response from citizens.
RIGHTS: U.N. Still to Accredit Its First U.S. LGBT Group
- Inter Press Service
Sixty-one years after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, sexual orientation and gender identity still pose a threat to the dignity and sovereignty of individuals around the world.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Portraits from the Summit
- Inter Press Service
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.
RIGHTS: Female Genital Mutilation Continues Long After Ban
- Inter Press Service
In the darkest corner of the room, under the clamour of twelve women’s voices, sits Ghati Chacha*, she can barely be heard. Her newborn suckles as she speaks softly about how she refused female circumcision.
ENVIRONMENT: Sun Greets 'Flood for Climate Justice'
- Inter Press Service
The sun came out in Copenhagen Saturday for the first time this week. But even though its rays were too weak to temper the bone-chilling cold, it shone brightly over the 5,000 people who braved the weather to participate in a demonstration organised by Friends of the Earth International (FOEI).
US: Reconsidering War on Drugs
- Inter Press Service
As the war on drugs moves closer to home and a new administration presents new ideas, policymakers in Washington are taking notice of 30 years' worth of ineffectual drug policy and beginning to think about different ways of addressing the northward flow of narcotics.
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