News headlines for “Energy Security”, page 117
Arab World Sinks Deeper into Water Crisis, Warns UNDP
- Inter Press Service
, Nov 29 (IPS) - The Arab world is widely perceived as blessed with an embarrassment of riches: an abundance of oil (Saudi Arabia), one of the world's highest per capita incomes (Qatar), and home to the world's tallest luxury building (United Arab Emirates).
U.S. Unveils Military Strategy for Arctic
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 26 (IPS) - The United States is calling for greater cooperation in the Arctic, even as it warns that it will defend its sovereignty in the face of strengthening international interest in newly opening shipping lanes and natural resource extraction opportunities as the region's ice disappears.
South Scores 11th-Hour Win on Climate Loss and Damage
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Nov 24 (IPS) - The U.N. climate talks in Warsaw ended in dramatic fashion Saturday evening in what looked like a schoolyard fight with a mob of dark-suited supporters packed around the weary combatants, Todd Stern of the United States and Sai Navoti of Fiji representing G77 nations.
Multinationals' Interest Grows in Sustainable Bioplastics
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 21 (IPS) - Eight major multinational consumer products companies have come together to investigate whether it is possible to produce a sustainable form of "bioplastic", made from plants rather than petroleum products.
Trinidadian Fishers Choose Jail over “Seismic Bombing”
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Nov 21 (IPS) - The demonstration took place on land and sea simultaneously. In the end, police had arrested three people, including Gary Aboud, president of the Trinidadian NGO Fishermen and Friends of the Sea (FFOS), but protesters were undaunted. They would be back.
U.N. Climate Meet Becomes About "Not Losing Ground"
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Nov 20 (IPS) - Diann Black-Layne grew up in a single parent home with nine siblings on the tiny Caribbean island of Antigua. Still, life was easygoing and enjoyable, she recalls. For her, it was paradise.
Carbon Emissions on Tragic Trajectory
- Inter Press Service
, Nov 19 (IPS) - Burning of fossil fuels added a record 36 billion tonnes of CO2 to the atmosphere in 2013, locking in even more heating of the planet.
Obama Gets More Time for Iran Nuclear Deal
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 16 (IPS) - The administration of President Barack Obama appears to have succeeded in preventing Congress from enacting new sanctions against Iran before the next round of nuclear-related talks between the U.S. and other great powers and Tehran scheduled for Geneva Nov. 20.
Lavrov Reveals Amended Draft Circulated at “Last Moment”
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 15 (IPS) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov revealed a crucial detail Thursday about last week's nuclear talks with Iran in Geneva that explains much more clearly than previous reports why the meeting broke up without agreement.
Japan Bails Out on CO2 Emissions Target
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Nov 15 (IPS) - Japan announced Friday that it will renege on its carbon emissions pledge, likely ending any hope global warming can be kept to 2.0 degrees C.
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