News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 618
Safeguard Issues Shadow Forests Rescue Plan
- Inter Press Service
As national policies are developed to implement REDD, the U.N. effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, a key question has been how to ensure social and environmental standards are upheld in REDD projects, both at the national and international level.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Testing the Waters Ahead of Closer Collaboration on River
- Inter Press Service
You would expect to find children in the Vaal River outside Parys on a hot afternoon. But 28 of them, on the Gauteng side of the river, are not swimming; they are doing research for ORASECOM.
Free Trade Deals Bait Indian Fishermen
- Inter Press Service
A series of bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) is threatening the livelihoods of India's fishermen on the 8,000 km peninsular coastline - among the longest in the world - and the diets of millions of Indians for whom fish is a cheap source of protein.
Broad Coalition Rallies for BP Accountability
- Inter Press Service
Gulf coast fishers, conservationists, seafood distributors and oil workers rallied here at Louisiana's capital over the weekend to demand that oil giant BP be held accountable for the 'ongoing' use of toxic dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico.
PERU: After Toxic Mine Spill, Locals Demand Both Jobs and Cleanup
- Inter Press Service
Four months after Peru's worst toxic spill of mining waste, workers at the Caudalosa mine are demanding that it be reopened, while local communities want more cleanup of the rivers they depend on for water supplies.
An Awakening in Nagoya
- Inter Press Service
The international community has finally awoken to the other great trans-boundary challenge of our time, with a new international agreement to halt the unravelling of the web of life that sustains humanity.
Biodiversity Pact Begins With the Genes
- Inter Press Service
The delegates to the 10th Conference of Parties (COP 10) to the Convention on Biological Diversity ended up with a relatively weak plan for the Herculean task of halting the disappearance of species. The exception was a pact on the use of genetic resources.
Lurching from One Disaster to the Next
- Inter Press Service
The world is ill-prepared for the human toll from the expected increase in floods, droughts and extreme storms and hurricanes on the horizon.
MEXICO: No Solution in Sight for Apaxco Pollution Conflict
- Inter Press Service
A waste processing company and the surrounding community are at odds over the operation of a plant that provides energy for Mexico's cement industry.
Black Floridians Await Settlement on Toxic Contamination
- Inter Press Service
It is safe to say that the candidates running in Florida for the Nov. 2 congressional elections do not have a campaign stop planned for Tallevast. Residents there believe that they have been abandoned by the government.
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