News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 878
FINANCE: IMF Proposes 100-Billion-Dollar Climate Fund
- Inter Press Service
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has published the first details of a proposed financing framework, dubbed the 'Green Fund', intended to mobilise 100 billion dollars a year by 2020 to help developing countries cope with the consequences of climate change and mitigate further emissions.
HAITI: Watching the Sky with Dread
- Inter Press Service
With the spring rains and hurricane season just around the corner in Haiti, some 600,000 people are still living in camps, many in areas prone to flooding. And plans to provide solutions for the survivors of the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake are moving forward slowly.
URUGUAY: Agro-Export Boom May Have Lethal Consequences
- Inter Press Service
Behind the explosive growth of the agriculture and plantation forestry industries in Uruguay lies clear proof of the indiscriminate use of chemical products that pose serious threats to the environment and human health.
LAOS: Doubts Hound World Bank-backed Dam as Its Turbines Start Up
- Inter Press Service
It has been just over a week since the turbines came to life at Laos’ largest hydropower project, but questions are already dogging this World Bank showpiece that marks the financial institution's return to the business of big dams.
Q&A: EPAs Are Still Not Developmental, Despite EU Promises
- Inter Press Service
The contentious trade deals known as the economic partnership agreements (EPAs) will in their current form not do African countries any good as they still do not take those countries’ development needs into consideration, despite such an undertaking by the European Union (EU).
Q&A: Debunking the Deniers
- Inter Press Service
Even though 2009 was the fifth warmest year since 1850, and 2000-09 the warmest decade ever, according to the World Meterological Organisation, surveys show that public concern about global warming in the United States and Canada has dropped sharply in the past 18 months.
TRADE-PERU: Signing Away Too Many Rights?
- Inter Press Service
Peru is enthusiastically espousing free trade, and has signed six tariff-lowering agreements in the space of a year. But it has not matched them with the internal policies needed to reduce their impact on labour rights, the environment, and sensitive areas like agriculture, social organisations and experts say.
LAOS: Residents Fret Over Parched Mekong River
- Inter Press Service
Like many residents of this slow-paced Lao capital, graduate student Packno usually enjoys meeting up with her family and friends for dinner at any of the restaurants along the Mekong River.
AFRICA: Illegal Fishing in Guinea’s Waters 'Worst in the World'
- Inter Press Service
Rampant illegal fishing is hitting some of the poorest West African countries the hardest as this practice is globally most rife in the east central Atlantic Ocean area, which covers the territorial waters of some 15 African countries from Morocco and Mauritania in the north to Angola in the south.
KENYA: Construction of Dam Will Devastate Local Communities
- Inter Press Service
Gideon Lepalo describes growing up in Loiyangalani, 20 kilometres from Lake Turkana, as magical. However, he fears the building of Gilgel Gibe III dam in Ethiopia, upstream of the Omo River, will soon mean that his childhood memories of the lake will be exactly that - memories.
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