News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 663
Opposition Mounts to Carbon Compensation Schemes
- Inter Press Service
The World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, which opened Monday in Bolivia, will reflect vigorous resistance to financial compensation for forest conservation in return for permits to emit greenhouse gases, activists told IPS.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Voice of Civil Society Loud and Clear in Cochabamba
- Inter Press Service
The success of the climate change conference taking place in the central Bolivian city of Cochabamba will depend on how unified civil society ultimately is in its efforts to influence the United Nations climate summit, in Mexico, say Latin American activists.
CHINA: In Latest Quake, Poorly Built Schools Haunt Gov’t — Again
- Inter Press Service
Collapsed buildings, homes turned to rubble, students killed or trapped in the wreckage of schools and dormitories — last week’s 7.1-magnitude earthquake in western China’s remote Qinghai province offered chilling reminders of the Sichuan earthquake that killed almost 90,000 people in 2008.
PARAGUAY: Bamboo Against Deforestation
- Inter Press Service
Uncontrolled expansion of cattle farming in Paraguay has led to 'cutting down trees and planting exotic grasses,' says environmentalist Guillermo Gayo. To put a halt to this practice in the southern department of Paraguarí, the foundation he heads has implemented what is known as 'permaculture.'
AFRICA: Foreign Investors Safeguarded From Obligations to Locals
- Inter Press Service
Parts of the Tana Delta on Kenya’s northern coastline are being leased to foreigners to grow food and bio-fuels for export. Civil society organisations are worried about such deals as they are done without public consultation while safeguarding investors from requirements that could benefit local communities, such as technology transfer.
PHILIPPINES: Revival of Filthy River Flows from Changed Habits
- Inter Press Service
While more developed countries consider waterfronts prime property, most Filipinos have regarded rivers and creeks as their 'backyard' and sewage system.
ENVIRONMENT: European Activists Against Economic Growth
- Inter Press Service
The global environmental crisis requires replacing the existing capitalist model of production with one that promotes 'selective degrowth' of the economy and the restricted and responsible exploitation of natural resources, according to European experts and activists.
AGRICULTURE: Affordable Solution to Costly Pests
- Inter Press Service
The International Centre for Plant Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), based at Mbita, on the Kenyan shores of the world’s second-largest freshwater body, is advocating 'push-pull cultivation' as the answer to feeding future generations in Africa.
NAMIBIA: Banking Water for the Future
- Inter Press Service
In the driest capital city south of the Sahara, water engineers are 'banking' ground water to meet future demand, but the enormous costs might sink the project before water can be harvested.
CLIMATE CHANGE-BOLIVIA: In Defence of Pachamama
- Inter Press Service
Through their ancestral knowledge and traditions, indigenous peoples will make a unique and invaluable contribution to the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, which begins Monday, Apr. 19 in the central Bolivian city of Cochabamba.
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