News headlines for “Energy Security”, page 118
Brazil Headed Towards an Energy Revolution
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Nov 15 (IPS) - Energy consumption and production are undergoing fundamental shifts but the world is still on course to a 3.6 degree C hotter climate according a report released during the U.N. climate talks in Warsaw.
U.N. Climate Meet: "It's About Survival"
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Nov 13 (IPS) - For the small island developing states of the Caribbean, there is nothing more important than the United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place here at the national stadium of Poland from Nov. 11-22.
St. Vincent’s Volcano Holds More Promise Than Peril
- Inter Press Service
KINGSTOWN, Nov 12 (IPS) - Weary of sky-high electricity prices, St. Vincent is following in the footsteps of another, decidedly un-tropical island nearly 4,000 miles away in its quest to harness clean geothermal power.
For Poland the Right Way Is Coal
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Nov 12 (IPS) - These are busy days in the Polish capital Warsaw, even if it doesn't show. The United Nations Climate Change Conference COP 19 has opened at the National Stadium, while on the other side of the river Wisla the Polish far right gathered for their annual march on Independence Day on Monday.
Ethiopia’s Indigenous Excluded from Rapid Growth
- Inter Press Service
OMO VALLEY, Ethiopia, Nov 11 (IPS) - As the construction of a major transmission line to export electricity generated from one of Ethiopia's major hydropower projects gets underway, there are growing concerns that pastoralist communities living in the region are under threat.
Libya’s Berbers Close the Tap
- Inter Press Service
ZWARA, Libya, Nov 09 (IPS) - "Oil tankers won´t get crude from this port until Tripoli finally meets our demands," says Younis, one of the Amazigh rebels today blocking one of Libya´s largest gas and crude oil plants.
World Headed for a High-Speed Carbon Crash
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Nov 07 (IPS) - If global carbon emissions continue to rise at their current rate, humanity will eventually be left with no other option than a costly, world war-like mobilisation, scientists warned this week.
South America - From Granary to Megaprojects for the World
- Inter Press Service
BELÉM, Brazil, Nov 05 (IPS) - South America has gone from the world's granary to the site of innumerable international infrastructure, energy and mining megaprojects. It is now facing a new dilemma: bolstering the economy with the promise of reducing inequality, in exchange for social and environmental costs that are taking their toll.
Nuclear Called a Lesser Evil than Fossil Fuels
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 04 (IPS) - Four prominent climate and energy scientists are calling on environmentalists to rethink their longstanding opposition to nuclear energy, warning that there is no "credible path to climate stabilization that does not include a substantial role for nuclear power".
Energy Integration Runs into Short Circuits
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Oct 31 (IPS) - Energy integration efforts in Latin America have been made in fits and starts, even though many clearly understand that the only way to solve the region's energy shortages and high costs is by working together.
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