News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 577
ICELAND: New Energy Stinks, And Worse
- Inter Press Service
Public health authorities in Reykjavik have criticised plans for the expansion of the Hellisheidi geothermal power plant. They say that levels of the gas hydrogen sulphide could increase by 40 percent if a new geothermal field, Grauhnukur, is developed and nothing is done to ensure that the levels of the gas remain below maximum permitted levels.
CLIMATE CHANGE: African Agriculture and Food Supply at Risk
- Inter Press Service
Climate change and global warming are likely to have dramatically negative effects on African agriculture and food supply by reducing river runoffs and water recharge, especially in semi-arid zones such as Southern Africa, two new reports say.
U.N. Political Body Digresses into 'Non-Security' Issues
- Inter Press Service
When the U.N. Security Council, the only political body empowered to declare war and peace, decided to include climate change on its agenda back in 2007, the 131-member Group of 77 (G77) launched a vociferous protest.
Developing Countries Pledging More Emissions Cuts Than Industrial North
- Inter Press Service
Negotiations over a new international climate agreement are on the brink as new analyses show that carbon emission reduction promises by industrialised nations are actually lower than those made by China, India, Brazil and other developing nations. Even with all the promises or pledges added together they are still far short of cuts needed to prevent global temperatures from rising two degrees Celsius, experts reported here.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Putting Children in Harms Way
- Inter Press Service
It is late afternoon and the lone figure of nine-year-old Nancy Chepkemboi trudges home. To keep her head dry from the heavy rains, Chepkemboi has placed her books inside her shirt and used the polythene bag that is her school bag to cover her head.
ENVIRONMENT: Congo Basin Slow to Adopt REDD
- Inter Press Service
Only two of the eleven countries that share the Congo Basin have validated their plans to participate in the forest conservation process known as REDD+.
OP-ED: G20 Ministers of Agriculture Must Focus on Smallholder Farmers
- Inter Press Service
The first-ever official meeting of Ministers of Agriculture from G20 countries, to be held in Paris Jun. 22-23, presents an extraordinary opportunity. Tasked with developing an action plan to address price volatility in food and agricultural markets and its impact on the poor, the ministers are uniquely positioned to not only tackle the immediate price volatility problems, but also to take on a more fundamental and long-term challenge - extreme poverty and hunger.
LATIN AMERICA: Renewable Energies Will Devour Metal Resources
- Inter Press Service
The expansion of renewable energies in Latin America will drive up demand for metals like copper, which only recycling will be able to meet.
Q&A: Universal Energy Access is Possible With the Right Support
- Inter Press Service
Providing electricity and modern cooking technology to billions of ‘energy poor’ people worldwide is one of the priorities of the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) - one that experts say is achievable over the next few decades.
ICC Urged to Accept 'Ecocide' as an International Crime
- Inter Press Service
Images of the immense, dark stain of oil covering the waters of the Gulf of Mexico made their way across the globe last year as one of the largest oil spills in history unfolded. Other images - of the ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’, a gigantic pile of litter floating in the North Pacific Ocean; of countless felled trees in the Amazon; of tar sands in Canada - have gained much fewer headlines, but are likely to remain as monuments to the price tag of wanton human appetites.
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