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ENVIRONMENT: Women on Front Lines of Climate Week
- Inter Press Service
Women's voices remain highly underrepresented in the climate change debate, say international civil society leaders attending events taking place around the United Nations Climate Summit Tuesday.
BRAZIL: Electric Car Revolution in the Making
- Inter Press Service
The electric vehicle - pure or hybrid - will trigger an energy and industrial revolution worldwide in the coming decades, dealing a blow to liquid fuels. But plant-based ethanol will survive and grow, say Brazilian experts consulted for this report.
PAKISTAN: ‘Empty Stomachs’ Could Spark More Riots, Experts Warn
- Inter Press Service
For a bag of flour, they risked life and limb.
ENVIRONMENT: Japan, China Pledge to Act on Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
When the one-day summit meeting on climate change ended late Monday, only Japan and China were singled out for their concrete commitments to battle one of the world's biggest environmental challenges.
ENVIRONMENT: Act Now or Lose Forever, Climate Summit Told
- Inter Press Service
The world's small island developing nations, most of which are threatened with environmental devastation, put the international community on dire notice: either accept ambitious and binding emission reduction targets, or humanity is doomed.
SOUTH AMERICA-AFRICA: New Summit to Strengthen Cooperation
- Inter Press Service
Heads of state and other officials from 54 African and 12 South American nations will meet for the Second Africa-South America Summit this Saturday and Sunday on Isla Margarita, Venezuela, to boost cooperation in a score of areas with potential for greater bi-regional exchange.
GUYANA: Brazil Opens Gateway to Wider Caribbean
- Inter Press Service
Earlier this month, Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula DaSilva flew more than 1,600 kilometres from his base in Brasilia to a remote state on the Guyanese frontier to formally commission a border river bridge with his country's English-speaking neighbour.
RIGHTS-IRAN: Groups Call for Special U.N. Probe
- Inter Press Service
Just ahead of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech to world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly, two human rights organisations asked the international media to seize what they termed a crucial opportunity to hold him accountable for post-election violence in Iran.
TRINIDAD: Radical Muslim Leader Sparks Corruption Probe
- Inter Press Service
Ever since he literally blazed into the lives of Trinidadians when he led more than 100 armed followers in a failed attempt to remove the A.N.R. Robinson government in 1990, radical Muslim leader Yasin Abu Bakr has been able to taunt the country with impunity.
ENVIRONMENT: For Trees, Against Monoculture
- Inter Press Service
Growing demand for products like timber and biofuels is putting pressure on shrinking rainforests.
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