News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 690
U.S.: Aging Coal Plants Still a Fixture in South
- Inter Press Service
As governments negotiate future greenhouse gas emissions in Copenhagen, a recent report from Environment America has highlighted the problem of the United States' older coal-fired power plants, which generated nearly three-quarters of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from power plants in 2007.
CLIMATE CHANGE: China Reels Under a Barrage of Criticism
- Inter Press Service
China is not happy. This is how one of the Chinese state-sanctioned newspapers summed up Beijing’s feelings about the week spent negotiating on climate change in the Danish capital.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Asians Find their Collective Voice
- Inter Press Service
If some Asian states appeared to be disunited in the lead-up to the climate change talks currently underway in Copenhagen, now they are rising in unison to get the developed world to accede to their demands.
CLIMATE CHANGE: The Many Lives of the Tobin Tax
- Inter Press Service
In the decades since 1972, when Nobel laureate economist James Tobin (1918-2002) first proposed it, the idea of a tax on currency speculation has resurfaced and disappeared many times, according to the economic tides.
CLIMATE CHANGE: ''The Struggle Does Not Stop Here,'' Say Witnesses
- Inter Press Service
‘’Those who run the decision-making on climate change are the same who have caused it,’’ said Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the world’s first international climate hearing on Tuesday, pithily identifying the reason why justice has been elusive at the ongoing climate change summit in the Danish capital.
ENVIRONMENT: Honduras Heads List for Climate Risk
- Inter Press Service
Honduras has been hit harder by extreme weather events than almost any other country over the last 18 years, says a study of weather-related losses, released here as the climate summit continues this week.
CLIMATE CHANGE: The World Needs a Hero
- Inter Press Service
Climate change is becoming an increasingly colossal problem, and civil society, fed up with fruitless negotiations, seems to have found its David: Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed.
CLIMATE CHANGE: 'Cut Fossil Fuel Subsidies But Compensate the Poor'
- Inter Press Service
Cutting governmental subsidies for fossil energy could lead to a 10 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 as compared to 1990 levels, says a recent study by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Water Is the Missing Link in Copenhagen
- Inter Press Service
When the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) announced the grim news that 2009 is likely to rank in the top 10 warmest on record, the U.N. agency also stressed last week the widespread water-related calamities caused by global warming.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Developing Countries Insist Kyoto Stays
- Inter Press Service
The U.N. Climate Change Conference enters its final week under a cloud of uncertainty as the Africa Group led a protest of the developing world against a perceived attempt to abandon the Kyoto Protocol.
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