News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 905
CLIMATE CHANGE: Adaptation Funds Must Reach Africa's Women Farmers
- Inter Press Service
One of the key components of global action on climate change will be measures to adapt to changes that are already unavoidable. The Global Gender and Climate Alliance argues that specific attention be paid to the needs of women.
CLIMATE CHANGE: The World Is Bogged Down in Copenhagen
- Inter Press Service
Poor countries will suffer horrendous impacts if an agreement isn't reached by the end of the climate change summit in Copenhagen. That was the warning launched by the developing South Friday during the talks that remained as bogged down at the end of the first week as at the start.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Cattle, the Ignored Predator
- Inter Press Service
Because of its effect on the environment, cattle must be given the same priority in global agendas as nuclear weapons, wars and, in particular, climate change, says Brazilian activist João Meirelles Filho, author of two books on Amazon deforestation.
CLIMATE CHANGE: East Europe, Developed or Developing?
- Inter Press Service
The European Union is presenting itself as a united front during negotiations in the Copenhagen climate change conference. But East European countries insist that they are developing nations and prefer to limit their aid and emissions commitments.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Europe's Shy Commitments
- Inter Press Service
'Decision-makers should stop thinking in realpolitik terms and acknowledge that we are out of time,’’ says Magda Stoczkiewicz, director of Friends of the Earth (FoE) in Europe.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Coastal Carbon Sinks in Dire Need of Protection
- Inter Press Service
What would it be like if the air we breathe was 30 percent more acidic? The oceans are already 30 percent more acidic, and on their way to becoming 120 percent more acidic in 50 years at the current rates of carbon dioxide emissions.
CLIMATE CHANGE: 'We Know Why We Are Dying' - Africa
- Inter Press Service
Posters in the arrivals hall of Copenhagen’s airport reminded delegates what is at stake here in the next two weeks. 'I am sorry,' a visibly aged Angela Merkel tells the world in 2020. 'We could have stopped catastrophic climate change... we didn’t.'
Q&A: 'We're Here to Insert Some Reality into an Unreal Situation'
- Inter Press Service
Bill McKibben is a U.S. writer, environmentalist and the founder of 350.org, an international climate campaign. His first book, 'The End of Nature', was published in 1989 and is regarded as the first book written for a general audience about climate change.
CLIMATE CHANGE: 'The G77 Is More United Than Ever'
- Inter Press Service
'If there's ever been a time in which the G77 has been more united than ever, that time is right now,' was the categorical statement made by Venezuelan negotiator Claudia Salerno to TerraViva, after a tiny island nation in the south Pacific stirred things up at the COP15 climate meetings.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Willingly or Not, We Must Prepare for Geoengineering
- Inter Press Service
So what do we do if COP15 does not bring adequate emission reduction targets or if the targets are not implemented by countries? What if we are faced with an ecological crisis in the next 15-20 years?
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