News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 637
WORLD: Cooking Up a Climate Deal
- Inter Press Service
Another round of negotiations towards a global treaty on climate change concluded in Bonn on Aug. 6, with activists calling on parties to rediscover a spirit of compromise and make offers rather than demands.
AFRICA: Bring Water Into Climate Change Negotiations
- Inter Press Service
Longer periods of drought, decreased river flow, higher rainfall variability and lower soil moisture content: water is at the heart of the impacts of climate change. Yet the precious commodity scarcely features in climate negotiations.
MEXICO: Conservation Gaining Ground on Private Lands
- Inter Press Service
The Mexican government is promoting the notion of private lands dedicated to sustainable use, a tool created in 1997 in this country with great biodiversity, but experts say there are still many shortcomings in the plan.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Native People Demand Autonomy Over Territory
- Inter Press Service
In the view of governments, international bodies and some sectors of civil society participating in negotiations towards new global rules on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the REDD programme is the last chance to save tropical rainforests.
AFRICA: Lack of City Planning to Hurt More Citizens
- Inter Press Service
Thousands of Kenyan urban dwellers, rich and poor, live in fear that their homes or building investments could soon be demolished as the country struggles to keep up with the rapid urbanisation of cities.
COSTA RICA: Working Towards Carbon Neutrality
- Inter Press Service
With the elimination of certain taxes and the implementation of several green initiatives, Costa Rica is pressing forward in its aim to promote sustainable energy generation with a view to achieving 'carbon neutrality' by 2021, the year this country will celebrate two centuries of independence.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Cancun May Deliver Little
- Inter Press Service
Little hope has emerged from a meeting here of any binding international regulations to reduce greenhouse gases at the next UN conference on climate change scheduled for November and December in Cancun, Mexico.
When Agrochemical Corporations Invented Nature
- Inter Press Service
A civil society protest against a British agrochemical company that claims it has invented a particular sort of broccoli has again focused attention on the question who owns natural biodiversity, especially vegetables, seeds, and many forms of meat and animal food products.
Transport Workers Fear Job Losses from Climate Change Action
- Inter Press Service
Transport workers are concerned that measures to mitigate climate change, like greenhouse gas emissions reduction, may put their jobs at risk, while experts are urging a transformation of the predominant transport model worldwide.
Q&A: 'Incomprehensible' Absence of Women in Global Environment Policy
- Inter Press Service
There is a vacuum in the various texts that currently regulate global policy against climate change: specific mention of the effects of global warming on women and of the role women can play in protecting the environment.
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