News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 691
SRI LANKA: Local Climate Efforts: Too Little, Too Slow, Too Late?
- Inter Press Service
Sri Lankan experts do not seem to be pinning their hopes on the ongoing climate talks in Copenhagen, saying greenhouse gas emissions will continue to torment the world as long as western lifestyles remain the same.
CLIMATE CHANGE-CUBA: 'Energy is an Instrument of Power'
- Inter Press Service
'Energy is an instrument of power. Whoever has energy, controls the world,' Cuban expert Luis Bérriz said in an address to Klimaforum, the civil society meeting being held in parallel to the UN conference on climate change in the Danish capital.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Scientists Turn to Inuit for Clues
- Inter Press Service
The Inuit people who live in and around the Arctic are among the worst victims of global warming, and scientists are now turning to their experience and indigenous knowledge to understand the staggering effects of climate change.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Scientists Turn to Inuit People For Clues
- Inter Press Service
The Inuit people who live in and around the Arctic are among the worst victims of global warming, and scientists are turning to their experience and indigenous knowledge to understand the staggering effects of climate change.
ARGENTINA: Solar Villages Light Up the Andes
- Inter Press Service
The residents of the Puna, the dry Andean highlands in northern Argentina, are cut off from everything - except the sun. Living on arid land thousands of metres above sea level, they are on their way to becoming 'solar villages.'
CLIMATE CHANGE: Hope in 100,000 Flavours
- Inter Press Service
The midpoint of a conference on climate change in which tremendous hope has been invested; unsurprising then that demonstrations of popular desire for decisive action against global warming took place around the world.
ENVIRONMENT-ICELAND: Do-it-Yourself Renewable Energy Catches On
- Inter Press Service
When Innovation Centre Iceland (ICI) managers began courses in farming renewable energy in October they were unprepared for the enthusiastic response from citizens.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Portraits from the Summit
- Inter Press Service
Among the thousands of people who have flocked to the Danish capital this week for the climate change summit and dozens of parallel activities are activists of all ages and stripes and representatives of the business community. TerraViva caught up to some of them to find out why they are here and what they hope to achieve.
ENVIRONMENT: Sun Greets 'Flood for Climate Justice'
- Inter Press Service
The sun came out in Copenhagen Saturday for the first time this week. But even though its rays were too weak to temper the bone-chilling cold, it shone brightly over the 5,000 people who braved the weather to participate in a demonstration organised by Friends of the Earth International (FOEI).
CLIMATE CHANGE: Bringing the Rainforest to Copenhagen
- Inter Press Service
As delegates deliberate over the extent carbon emissions will be curbed in the closing days of the U.N. summit here, the environmental ramifications of that agreement are likely to be felt in places far removed from the negotiating table, particularly among indigenous people on the front lines of climate change.
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