News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 652
Agro-Tech Alone No Panacea for Food Insecurity
- Inter Press Service
Providing technology to communities to ensure food security doesn't work if local traditions and social dynamics are not taken into account, concluded the participants in a forum here at the Fourth Assembly of the Global Environment Facility.
BRAZIL: Bridge to Drive Urban Growth in Heart of Amazon
- Inter Press Service
The 74 pillars that will hold up the bridge over the Negro river to join this major city in Brazil's Amazon jungle to nearby urban districts have mostly been laid, without environmental protests or major debates on the impact of a fast-growing metropolitan area in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.
LATIN AMERICA: Governments Call for Greater Voice in Environmental Funding
- Inter Press Service
'There should be a mechanism for recipient countries to help bring about a more balanced distribution of GEF funds,' Cuban delegate Jorge Luis Fernández told IPS after a forum Tuesday on how to boost the efficiency and effectiveness of the Global Environment Facility.
Historic Conservation Pact a Decade in the Making
- Inter Press Service
It was here in Yellowknife, on an inlet of the Great Slave Lake, that Stephen Kakfwi, then a minister of wildlife and economic development who would go on to become premier of the Northwest Territories, brought together in 1996 a group that would decide which areas of the forest needed to be protected and which areas could be developed.
NICARAGUA: Nature as a Sword of Damocles
- Inter Press Service
More than 1.8 million Nicaraguans are at high risk due to the various natural disasters that strike this Central American country, according to Civil Defence authorities.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Latin America, EU Set Sights on Cancún Summit
- Inter Press Service
Governments from the European Union and from Latin America and the Caribbean are confident that at year's end the international climate conference will produce a concrete legal mandate to truly protect the environment.
GULF: Search On For Green Options to Forestall Water Shortage
- Inter Press Service
Realising that achieving water security in the future is not an option but a necessity, oil-rich Gulf countries are striving to find new environment-friendly and more economical ways of producing freshwater.
More Funds, Less Red Tape, NGOs Tell GEF Assembly
- Inter Press Service
Civil society organisations called for more funds, less bureaucracy and greater decision-making power, at the opening of the Fourth Global Environment Facility (GEF) Assembly Monday in this Uruguayan resort town.
BOLIVIA: Morales Caught Between Gas Revenues and Indigenous Demands
- Inter Press Service
The Bolivian government negotiated with native groups to head off major marches and roadblocks aimed at demanding protection of indigenous land rights and conservation of the environment in their territories.
How to Spend Environmental Funds
- Inter Press Service
The world's multilateral credit institutions have often faced the criticism that they cause more problems than they prevent. As the challenges increase, such as those posed by climate change, the debate is shifting to environmental financing.
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