News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 886
COTE D'IVOIRE: Policy Changes Revive Poultry Industry
- Inter Press Service
Ivorian poultry producers are enjoying strong growth thanks to the imposition of a tax on imports of poultry products from the European Union and South America.
U.S.: Nuke Plants Back in Vogue, as Climate Bill Stalls
- Inter Press Service
After decades of debate, the United States is poised to build its first new nuclear reactors since the early 1970s.
GUATEMALA: Anti-Mine Activists Encouraged by Canadian Ruling
- Inter Press Service
Ecologists in Guatemala see a recent ruling by Canada's Supreme Court, which ordered Canadian mining companies to carry out rigorous environmental assessments, as a positive precedent that could help improve environmental controls over the mining industry in this Central American country.
Q&A: 'Sustainability Issues Are Economic Issues'
- Inter Press Service
Fresh from a whirlwind tour of non-stop meetings at the World Economic Forum in Davos and a U.N .investor summit on climate risk attended by George Soros, Al Gore, and 500 of the world's most powerful institutional and private investors, Mindy Lubber has a full plate.
CLIMATE CHANGE: U.N. to Mobilise Funds for Developing Nations
- Inter Press Service
After countries failed to reach a binding agreement on greenhouse gas emissions at the crucial Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen last December, the United Nations moving forward to enforce a pledge to help developing countries cope with the worst impacts.
/CORRECTED REPEAT*/ICELAND: Questions Hang Over EU Membership
- Inter Press Service
Views within Iceland towards membership of the European Union (EU) are mixed. Though Iceland has officially decided to apply for EU membership this does not mean that it will join, even if invited to do so.
CANADA: Resistance Casts Pall over 2010 Olympic Festivities
- Inter Press Service
The 2010 Winter Olympics opened with the largest protest convergence in the history of the Games.
ENERGY: Planting New Seeds for the Take-Off
- Inter Press Service
A salty, crunchy salad herb known to gourmands as samphire could revolutionise agriculture in the Middle East by providing food, fodder and fuel without using a single drop of freshwater.
ICELAND: Questions Hang Over EU Membership
- Inter Press Service
Views within Iceland towards membership of the European Union (EU) are mixed. Though Iceland has officially decided to apply for EU membership this does not mean that it will join, even if invited to do so.
Q&A: The Two Faces of Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
The challenge of the 21st century is to transform agriculture into a good administrator of biodiversity and reverse its destructive capacity, without restricting its mission to feed a growing world population, said Achim Steiner, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme.
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