News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 937
CLIMATE CHANGE: Rising Seas Demand Better Family Planning
- Inter Press Service
A rising population and climate change need to be considered together in an integrated policy, experts demanded at a forum on sexual and reproductive health and development held in Berlin Sep. 2-4.
/CORRECTED REPEAT*/UGANDA: Carbon Trading Scheme Pushing People off Their Land
- Inter Press Service
As the world's attention increasingly turns to the impact of climate change, at least one project intended to reduce global carbon emissions is accused of displacing indigenous persons from their home in Uganda.
DEVELOPMENT: Getting REDDy for Copenhagen
- Inter Press Service
'African farmers will play a major part in the solution of climate change mitigation,' predicts Dennis Garrity, head of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF).
WATER-SOUTHERN AFRICA: Managing An Unpredictable Environment
- Inter Press Service
The water available in the Limpopo River basin, which stretches across Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe and Mozambique, is both in great demand and highly variable. Managing it effectively and to the satisfaction of all users is a challenge.
ARGENTINA: Clean Energy from Manure
- Inter Press Service
With its enormous potential for biogas production, Argentina is gearing up for this clean energy alternative - which has already seen good results on ranches that transform manure into energy.
POLITICS: Developing Nations Sceptical of Climate Summit
- Inter Press Service
The 130-member Group of 77, the largest single coalition of developing nations, is at loggerheads with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon over an upcoming one-day global summit on climate change in New York on Sep. 22.
CHILE: War Over Seeds
- Inter Press Service
Environmental organisations, organic farmers and indigenous people in Chile are opposed to a draft law that would expands the rights of the developers of new varieties of plants, while the government and seed companies argue that there will be no negative impacts on small farmers and biodiversity.
BRAZIL: More Growth, Less Carbon
- Inter Press Service
Achieving sustainable growth is one of the major challenges facing Brazil, an emerging power and the fourth largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world. To do this it will have to curb emissions, 30 percent of which are caused by industry, power generation and the transport sector.
WATER-SOUTHERN AFRICA: Research Not Trickling Down To Farmers
- Inter Press Service
Farmers could be losing tonnes of crops every harvest just because no one has bothered to tell them that scientists have found more effective methods of using water to farm.
WORLD: 'Mini-Ministerial Meeting Should Change WTO Tack on Food'
- Inter Press Service
A group of 125 non-governmental organisations from 50 countries is calling on the governments participating in the mini-ministerial trade talks in India over the next two days to reject the further liberalisation of food and rather promote policies that will achieve food security and rural development and safeguard farmers’ livelihoods.
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