News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 930
CAMEROON: 'Our Lives Are Defined By This Forest'
- Inter Press Service
Pauline Siembe, a Baka pygmy in South East Cameroon, comes out of her smoky hut licking her fingers after a meal of pounded yam and bush meat soup.
ENVIRONMENT: Nations Urged to Share Low Carbon Development Costs
- Inter Press Service
Following a strict global carbon budget is the only way to ride out climate change — and this is as much the responsibility of developing countries as it is of developed ones.
MEXICO: Underwater Museum to Protect Coral Reefs
- Inter Press Service
Four sculptures in human forms, made of concrete, will be submerged in November in the Mexican Caribbean - the first of 400 figures that will comprise the world's largest underwater museum.
CAMEROON: Gearing Up for Copenhagen
- Inter Press Service
'Developed countries have failed to respect the Kyoto Protocol which compelled them to reduce latest 2008 emissions of greenhouse gases by five percent. There is therefore need for new engagements to be taken at the Copenhagen Summit.' Decisive words from Cameroon's minister for the environment, Pierre Hele.
TRADE: 'We Won’t be Frogmarched Towards a Doha Conclusion'
- Inter Press Service
In a rare meeting of minds, a parliamentarian, a civil servant and a trade unionist, all three from Africa, agreed that the current course of the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Round of trade talks is detrimental to the interests of African countries.
VIETNAM: Preparation Mitigates Impact of Typhoon Ketsana
- Inter Press Service
Three days may have been a small window of opportunity, but it was enough time to save thousands of lives.
POLITICS: U.N. Session Marked by Highs and Lows
- Inter Press Service
The two-week long high-level segment of the U.N. General Assembly, which concluded last week, was characterised by historic moments, political controversies, and at times, routine boredom.
ENVIRONMENT-CHILE: Authorities May Sue Geothermal Energy Firm
- Inter Press Service
The Council for the Defense of the State (CDE), the Chilean government's legal watchdog, is considering bringing a suit for environmental damages against an Italian-Chilean consortium carrying out geothermal studies a few kilometres away from the El Tatio geyser field, a tourist attraction in the northern region of Antofagasta.
ASIA: Mounting Costs of Climate Change Raise Fears of Conflict
- Inter Press Service
The rising challenge of climate change has raised fears of growing conflicts as the impact of more extreme weather triggers food water scarcities across the Asia region.
DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Farmers Vs Coca-Cola in Water Wars
- Inter Press Service
As India faces its worst drought in four decades, a dispute over water resources between farmers in the Kala Dera area of western Rajasthan state and a Coca-Cola bottling plant located there has sharpened.
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