News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 909
DEVELOPMENT-AFRICA: Collaborating on Sustainable Solutions
- Inter Press Service
Mauritian experts are helping set up cogeneration systems to feed the hunger for electricity in Tanzania, Zambia and elsewhere. An example of how appropriate technology can be applied to problems common to countries in the global South.
U.S.: 'We All Breathe the Same Air and Drink the Same Water'
- Inter Press Service
Some 8,000 kilometres from the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Native American environmental experts from 66 tribes came together at a summit here this week to address the most pressing needs in their communities - problems, all emphasised, that know no geographic boundaries.
ENERGY-MEXICO: Big Plans for Ethanol from Algae
- Inter Press Service
The Mexican company BioFields will begin production in 2014 of an algae-based biofuel at a site 300 kilometres from its border with the United States, which is likely to be its biggest customer.
CLIMATE CHANGE-US: Citizens Back Action, Despite Lobbying Surge
- Inter Press Service
As both Washington and the international community come gradually closer to taking substantive action on climate change at a high-level conference in Copenhagen, a side effect of this progress has been a parallel increase in the intensity of campaigns opposing such action — which may be a factor in the slight dip in the U.S. public's concern about climate change.
CLIMATE CHANGE: 'We Are a Harbinger of What Is to Come'
- Inter Press Service
A small group of indigenous people have travelled here to the historic Copenhagen climate talks to show negotiators dramatic documentary videos they made about the immediate impacts of climate change on their homelands and way of life.
TRADE: 'Development More Important than Quick Conclusion of Doha'
- Inter Press Service
Governments expressed the will at the seventh ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to finish the Doha Round of trade negotiations as soon as possible. But the Africa Group still deems development to be a more important priority than a speedy conclusion.
Q&A: Risk Insurance and Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
The catastrophic risk insurance shared by the countries of the Caribbean could serve as a model for collective strategies for dealing with natural disasters resulting from climate change, John Nash, the World Bank's lead economist for Latin America and the Caribbean, told Tierramérica.
SENEGAL: Farmers Anxious About Aid
- Inter Press Service
As part of a project to support community initiatives and fight poverty in South Senegal, the Sédhiou Local Development Fund received a donation of agricultural equipment worth more than half a million dollars in a bid to reverse the region's dramatic drop in agricultural production in recent years.
DEVELOPMENT: Brazil's Powerhouse Bank
- Inter Press Service
With his slicked-back hair, neatly trimmed, close-cropped beard, and impeccably pressed suits, Luciano Coutinho looks like any other obscure Brazilian banker. But he is anything but an average banking man.
ENVIRONMENT: New Pirate of the Caribbean Invades from Pacific
- Inter Press Service
The red lionfish (Pterois volitans), a venomous coral reef fish from the Indian and western Pacific Oceans, has invaded the waters of the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to wreak havoc on ecosystems, native fish populations and popular underwater diving areas.
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