News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 906
FRANCE: Sarkozy - Unlikely Champion of Environmental Action
- Inter Press Service
For a centre-right politician, best known for his law-and-order stance and tough immigration policies, French President Nicolas Sarkozy would seem an unlikely champion of environmental issues
ENVIRONMENT: Darkness at Noon Clouds Cairo Skies
- Inter Press Service
For the last decade, the autumn skies over Egypt - especially over capital Cairo, have been overshadowed by a thick haze people call 'the black cloud'.
CLIMATE CHANGE: From Dirty Fuels to Clean Technology
- Inter Press Service
Tomorrow’s polluters are today’s emerging economies. To develop without retracing the polluting steps of the West, requires green technology, an expensive option for Africa.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Latin American Women Want Modified Trade Rules
- Inter Press Service
'We don't need to change the climate, we need to change trade,' said Brazilian activist Marta Lago at Klimaforum, the civil society meeting held in parallel with the climate change summit in the Danish capital.
SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Chinese Dams Expose Fault Line in Mekong Region
- Inter Press Service
A heated debate about the future of the Mekong River at a media conference in this northern Thai city exposed a fault line triggered by the regional giant China’s plans to build a cascade of dams on the upper stretches of South-east Asia’s largest waterway.
CLIMATE CHANGE: World Bank Touts Carbon Market
- Inter Press Service
The World Bank proudly defended the global carbon market in the Danish capital Tuesday for its 'contribution' to efforts to mitigate climate change, in spite of criticism from civil society.
FINLAND: Biodiesel Breakthrough or Environment Nightmare?
- Inter Press Service
As Finnish energy major Neste Oil scales up production of its ‘green’ diesel NExBTL, environmental activists fear that more land will go under palm oil plantations at the expense of Southeast Asia’s threatened rainforests.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Brazil Defends Biofuels
- Inter Press Service
Being the world’s largest producer and exporter of ethanol it is natural for the Brazilian government and its partners to push biofuels as the only real alternative for a world trying wean itself away from fossil fuels that contribute to global warming.
CLIMATE CHANGE: No Closed Doors at Parallel Summit
- Inter Press Service
Two blocks from the Metro station on the busy M-1 Line, the first indication that pedestrians are slipping into the space-time continuum known as the 'Free City' is the ubiquitous graffiti and occasional 'boom!' of small explosive devices like M-80s echoing through the cobbled streets.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Latin America Between Hope and Realism
- Inter Press Service
Latin America has come to Copenhagen with the goal that the wealthy nations of the North pay their climate debt by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and providing resources to developing nations. But facing the risk that this strategy could fail, the Latin American representatives are also willing to accept some compromises.
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