News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 956
CLIMATE CHANGE: Another Go at Cracking Those Hard Nuts
- Inter Press Service
Environmental legislators from the 13 countries with the largest greenhouse gases emissions are meeting in Rome this Friday and Saturday to discuss steps towards the UN climate change conference scheduled in December in Copenhagen.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Agreement Prospects Slipping Away
- Inter Press Service
As the electronic clock at the preparatory talks here in the former West German capital counted up to the crucial UN climate change conference Dec. 7-18 in Copenhagen, the possibility of a new treaty being hammered out appeared rather remote.
ENVIRONMENT: The Greening of the French, Finally
- Inter Press Service
Compost boxes on the balcony of small apartments. Queues at market stalls selling organic produce. Massive audiences for a film about the state of the earth. Unprecedented votes for environmental politicians in the European elections.
DEVELOPMENT: Africa ‘Not Badly Hit’ Despite 16 Million More Poor
- Inter Press Service
Former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan believes that Africa has not been affected as ‘‘profoundly’’ by the global economic crisis compared to other regions in the world - despite the number of Africans living in poverty having increased by 16 million in the last year and annual growth dropping from six to one percent.
RIGHTS: Saro-Wiwa Settlement Latest Vindication of 1789 Law
- Inter Press Service
Monday's settlement of a long-pending case by Royal Dutch Shell marks the latest successful use by human rights groups of a 1789 anti-piracy law to gain redress in U.S. courts on behalf of foreign victims of serious abuses committed overseas in this case, Nigeria.
ENVIRONMENT: Mexico Yet to Cross Clean Energy Threshold
- Inter Press Service
Despite its great potential for energy from the sun, wind and water, Mexico has not taken advantage of the Clean Development Mechanism laid out in the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.
AGRICULTURE: Liberia's Land Just for Some
- Inter Press Service
After watching the murder of her husband and his three wives by Charles Taylor’s rebels, Fatu Bonah and her seven children fled into the dense forest to hide. 'The rebels burned down our home and when I returned my in-laws had taken the land,' she says. 'I went to the town chief, who tried to resolve it, but the family refused, saying they had already taken over the land.'
TRADE: EPA Signing Threatens Southern African Customs Union
- Inter Press Service
Fears that accession to an economic partnership agreement (EPA) in Southern Africa will destroy regional integration seem to be coming true after Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland (BLS) ignored a key provision of the Southern African Customs Union when they initialled their trade deal with the European Union last week.
ENVIRONMENT-EUROPE: The Light Could Go All Green by 2050
- Inter Press Service
The EU could meet all its electricity demands from renewable energy sources such as wind and the sun by 2050 if governments take the right decisions now, leading environment and energy experts say.
SOUTH AFRICA: Wastewater Is A Resource
- Inter Press Service
South Africa faces chronic water shortages, yet billions of litres are flushed away every year. Being one of the driest countries in the world, the conservation of water resources and managing wastewater should be a top priority for government.
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