News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 901
CLIMATE CHANGE: 'The Intelligence We Lacked'*
- Inter Press Service
World leaders speaking in Copenhagen on Friday, the last day of negotiations for a deal on climate change, retreated into their national positions.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Norway Is Trying*
- Inter Press Service
Norway is the world’s third largest donor in terms of development aid as a percentage of GDP. Norwegian Minister of Environment and International Development Erik Solheim spoke to TerraViva about the initiatives promoted by his country on environmental protection and its role during the Copenhagen negotiations.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Copenhagen Talks Create Hardly a Ripple in Malaysia
- Inter Press Service
Even if Prime Minister Najib Razak is in Copenhagen for the high-level segment of the U.N. conference on climate change, there has been precious little meaningful debate on the subject here in Malaysia.
BANGLADESH: Food Security in Great Peril from Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
Unless the world comes to its aid, Bangladesh says the vulnerability of its agriculture sector to climate change could spell severe consequences for its millions of people, who stand to lose their main source of livelihood.
CLIMATE CHANGE: 'Canada Is the Dinosaur'
- Inter Press Service
Canada bears a large share of responsibility for any failure to make a breakthrough in reducing greenhouse gas emissions here in Copenhagen, say participants and civil society activists.
SOUTH ASIA: Glacial Data Crucial to Combating Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
People living in the Himalayan region are increasingly confronted by rising temperatures and glaciers melting at an unprecedented rate, threatening their very survival. This much the world already knows.
CLIMATE CHANGE: No Water in Copenhagen Talks
- Inter Press Service
In the last two years, the conclusion among decision-makers has been that the only way to solve the climate crisis is to turn carbon into a commodity and privatise the atmosphere.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Lawmakers Push for a Deal
- Inter Press Service
With only one day to go to the end of the climate change talks and no agreement in sight, it looks like it will ultimately be up to national legislators to effectively implement whatever agreement is forged here in the Danish capital.
Q&A: Global Economic Apartheid Is Obstacle to Fair Climate Deal
- Inter Press Service
'Climate change is an opportunity to deal with all the issues of equity and justice that we have been struggling for all along,' said Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International in an interview with IPS on Thursday in Copenhagen.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Zenawi Stands Alone In Copenhagen
- Inter Press Service
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi says Africa must compromise and be flexible towards other countries, if the U.N. Climate Conference ending on Dec. 18, is to reach an agreement.
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