News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 692
CLIMATE CHANGE: Small Farmers Can Cool the World
- Inter Press Service
Industrial agriculture may emit nearly half of climate-heating greenhouse gases, but that reality has gone unrecognised by negotiators at the climate treaty talks here, say farmers with La Via Campesina, an international movement of hundreds of millions of small-scale peasant farmers.
ASIA: China’s PR Problem Rears Head at Mekong Forum
- Inter Press Service
Powerful neighbour. A rising power. Old friend. Big, secretive investor. Big boy of the region. These were some of the terms participants at the just-finished Mekong Media Forum here used, when asked to share the images of China they get from the media.
ENVIRONMENT: Europeans Pay Companies to Pollute More
- Inter Press Service
Some of the world's most polluting companies are receiving financial support from the European taxpayer to promote the continued use of the fuels that cause global warming, according to a new report.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Adaptation Funds Must Reach Africa's Women Farmers
- Inter Press Service
One of the key components of global action on climate change will be measures to adapt to changes that are already unavoidable. The Global Gender and Climate Alliance argues that specific attention be paid to the needs of women.
CLIMATE CHANGE: The World Is Bogged Down in Copenhagen
- Inter Press Service
Poor countries will suffer horrendous impacts if an agreement isn't reached by the end of the climate change summit in Copenhagen. That was the warning launched by the developing South Friday during the talks that remained as bogged down at the end of the first week as at the start.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Cattle, the Ignored Predator
- Inter Press Service
Because of its effect on the environment, cattle must be given the same priority in global agendas as nuclear weapons, wars and, in particular, climate change, says Brazilian activist João Meirelles Filho, author of two books on Amazon deforestation.
CLIMATE CHANGE: East Europe, Developed or Developing?
- Inter Press Service
The European Union is presenting itself as a united front during negotiations in the Copenhagen climate change conference. But East European countries insist that they are developing nations and prefer to limit their aid and emissions commitments.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Europe's Shy Commitments
- Inter Press Service
'Decision-makers should stop thinking in realpolitik terms and acknowledge that we are out of time,’’ says Magda Stoczkiewicz, director of Friends of the Earth (FoE) in Europe.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Coastal Carbon Sinks in Dire Need of Protection
- Inter Press Service
What would it be like if the air we breathe was 30 percent more acidic? The oceans are already 30 percent more acidic, and on their way to becoming 120 percent more acidic in 50 years at the current rates of carbon dioxide emissions.
CLIMATE CHANGE: 'We Know Why We Are Dying' - Africa
- Inter Press Service
Posters in the arrivals hall of Copenhagen’s airport reminded delegates what is at stake here in the next two weeks. 'I am sorry,' a visibly aged Angela Merkel tells the world in 2020. 'We could have stopped catastrophic climate change... we didn’t.'
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