News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 627
CLIMATE CHANGE: Averting the Grimmest Scenarios
- Inter Press Service
The catastrophic floods in Pakistan have added urgency to a high-level United Nations summit this week, with delegates from mostly South Asian nations convening Tuesday to call for increased technology transfer from richer countries and to compare strategies to avert the worst effects of climate change.
Biodiversity Talks Bog Down over Genetic Resources
- Inter Press Service
While officials meeting in Montreal, Canada failed to finalise a key protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Tuesday, biodiversity is scheduled to be at the top of Wednesday's agenda of the U.N. General Assembly in New York.
Climate Justice Treks from Cochabamba to Cancún
- Inter Press Service
The 'people's' climate agenda that the Bolivian government and civil society produced at an April conference in Cochabamba has made its way to the official United Nations negotiating table. But its inclusion in a binding climate treaty is unlikely, say activists.
MOZAMBIQUE: BHP Billiton Plans Six Month Bypass of Smelter Smokestack Scrubbers
- Inter Press Service
Civil society groups are challenging a six-month authorisation granted aluminium giant BHP Billiton to emit potentially dangerous fumes from its Mozal smelter into the air without treating them first.
Arctic Ice in Death Spiral
- Inter Press Service
The carbon dioxide emissions from burning such fossil fuels have now melted the Arctic sea ice to its lowest volume since before the rise of human civilisation and dangerously upsetting the energy balance of the entire planet, climate scientists are reporting.
INDIA: Jatropha Boom Yields Tough Lessons
- Inter Press Service
With a gas-guzzler of an economy, India had been spending tens of billions of dollars annually to import petroleum. And so its 2009 policy on biofuels mandated that by 2017, India would have enough biofuel production to cover at least 20 percent of the country’s oil consumption.
ARGENTINA: Fighting to Save Glaciers as They Retreat
- Inter Press Service
Argentina's glaciers, along with Chile's the most extensive of South America, manifest the damage caused by climate change, while they also face threats from mining and major transportation infrastructure projects. A law to protect them has been postponed yet again.
ARGENTINA: 'A Casino Is Not Progress'
- Inter Press Service
A small fishing community in the northern Argentine province of Chaco is pressing for a sustainable development programme to preserve their simple way of life and the natural habitat, rather than a mega-investment project that would draw upscale tourism instead of the people who now come to seek peace and quiet on the weekends.
Expectations Scaled Back for Cancún Climate Summit
- Inter Press Service
When, following months of hype, ministers and negotiating teams arrived in Copenhagen last December for a summit on climate change, the expectations for what could be accomplished were unrealistic and made the successes that did occur seem less important than they were, says the climate chief of Mexico, which will host this year’s successor to the Copenhagen summit.
BRAZIL: Development Trumps Environment on Election Agenda
- Inter Press Service
With Brazil's elections only about a fortnight away, there is already a clear winner: 'developmentalism.' This position espoused by the two main presidential candidates has relegated pressing environmental issues to a lowly place on the campaign agenda, in spite of the fact that the third contender represents the Green Party (PV).
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