News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 904
CLIMATE CHANGE: Hope in 100,000 Flavours
- Inter Press Service
The midpoint of a conference on climate change in which tremendous hope has been invested; unsurprising then that demonstrations of popular desire for decisive action against global warming took place around the world.
ENVIRONMENT-ICELAND: Do-it-Yourself Renewable Energy Catches On
- Inter Press Service
When Innovation Centre Iceland (ICI) managers began courses in farming renewable energy in October they were unprepared for the enthusiastic response from citizens.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Portraits from the Summit
- Inter Press Service
Among the thousands of people who have flocked to the Danish capital this week for the climate change summit and dozens of parallel activities are activists of all ages and stripes and representatives of the business community. TerraViva caught up to some of them to find out why they are here and what they hope to achieve.
ENVIRONMENT: Sun Greets 'Flood for Climate Justice'
- Inter Press Service
The sun came out in Copenhagen Saturday for the first time this week. But even though its rays were too weak to temper the bone-chilling cold, it shone brightly over the 5,000 people who braved the weather to participate in a demonstration organised by Friends of the Earth International (FOEI).
CLIMATE CHANGE: Bringing the Rainforest to Copenhagen
- Inter Press Service
As delegates deliberate over the extent carbon emissions will be curbed in the closing days of the U.N. summit here, the environmental ramifications of that agreement are likely to be felt in places far removed from the negotiating table, particularly among indigenous people on the front lines of climate change.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Small Farmers Can Cool the World
- Inter Press Service
Industrial agriculture may emit nearly half of climate-heating greenhouse gases, but that reality has gone unrecognised by negotiators at the climate treaty talks here, say farmers with La Via Campesina, an international movement of hundreds of millions of small-scale peasant farmers.
ASIA: China’s PR Problem Rears Head at Mekong Forum
- Inter Press Service
Powerful neighbour. A rising power. Old friend. Big, secretive investor. Big boy of the region. These were some of the terms participants at the just-finished Mekong Media Forum here used, when asked to share the images of China they get from the media.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Asian Delegates Want ‘Political Accord’, For Now
- Inter Press Service
Asian delegations to the ongoing global negotiations on climate change are insisting that a political agreement must be reached to pave the way for a legally binding treaty in the near future.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Least Developed Countries Spell Out Demands
- Inter Press Service
The world's poorest countries want two billion dollars from the developed world to replenish the Least Developed Countries Fund.
ENVIRONMENT: Europeans Pay Companies to Pollute More
- Inter Press Service
Some of the world's most polluting companies are receiving financial support from the European taxpayer to promote the continued use of the fuels that cause global warming, according to a new report.
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