News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 902
DEVELOPMENT-THAILAND: Fish, Not Dams
- Inter Press Service
Seventy-one-year old Kham, a woman from Napho Klang, left home early in the morning of Dec. 14 to join a ritual to revitalise the Mekong River, which passes through this part of north-eastern Thailand.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Meat-Eating Gets Grilled
- Inter Press Service
Climate change has given vegetarians a big, new stick to bash meat-eating with, albeit one they would have gladly done without.
CLIMATE CHANGE: ‘What’s Good for Asia Is Good for the World’
- Inter Press Service
China appears to have gained instant celebrity status since the opening days of the United Nations Climate Change Conference here.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Chávez, Morales Lash Out at Wealthy North
- Inter Press Service
Presidents Evo Morales of Bolivia and Hugo Chávez of Venezuela had harsh words for rich countries Wednesday, accusing them of driving the COP 15 talks to the brink of failure out of 'selfishness' and supporting a 'culture of death.'
U.S.: Aging Coal Plants Still a Fixture in South
- Inter Press Service
As governments negotiate future greenhouse gas emissions in Copenhagen, a recent report from Environment America has highlighted the problem of the United States' older coal-fired power plants, which generated nearly three-quarters of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from power plants in 2007.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Future Energy Scenario Unfavourable to Asia
- Inter Press Service
Much of the discussion in Copenhagen has revolved around targets and deadlines for cutting carbon emissions. But a weekend seminar in the idyllic Danish island of Samsoe, titled 'Future Energy,' helped journalists locate the problem in the context of the world’s biggest emitters.
CLIMATE CHANGE: China Reels Under a Barrage of Criticism
- Inter Press Service
China is not happy. This is how one of the Chinese state-sanctioned newspapers summed up Beijing’s feelings about the week spent negotiating on climate change in the Danish capital.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Asians Find their Collective Voice
- Inter Press Service
If some Asian states appeared to be disunited in the lead-up to the climate change talks currently underway in Copenhagen, now they are rising in unison to get the developed world to accede to their demands.
CLIMATE CHANGE: The Many Lives of the Tobin Tax
- Inter Press Service
In the decades since 1972, when Nobel laureate economist James Tobin (1918-2002) first proposed it, the idea of a tax on currency speculation has resurfaced and disappeared many times, according to the economic tides.
CLIMATE CHANGE: ''The Struggle Does Not Stop Here,'' Say Witnesses
- Inter Press Service
‘’Those who run the decision-making on climate change are the same who have caused it,’’ said Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the world’s first international climate hearing on Tuesday, pithily identifying the reason why justice has been elusive at the ongoing climate change summit in the Danish capital.
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