News headlines for “Energy Security”, page 126
Small Farmers Buffeted by Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 15 (IPS) - The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has long warned that a quarter of the world's farmland is "highly degraded".
U.S. Moving Toward Controversial New Role in Global Energy Market
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 14 (IPS) - Energy specialists say that advancements in fossil fuel extraction technologies have sparked a "revolution" in U.S. energy production, especially given radical recent changes in the global energy market and the U.S. role within it.
Developing Countries Lead Global Shift to Green Energy
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jun 13 (IPS) - Emerging economies such as Mexico and India are shifting energy investments into renewable resources while industrialised countries hesitate, noted two new United Nations reports released Wednesday in Nairobi, Kenya.
"Carbon Farming" Makes Waves at Stalled Bonn Talks
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jun 12 (IPS) - U.N. climate talks have largely stalled with the suspension of one of three negotiating tracks at a key mid-year session in Bonn, Germany.
Cairo’s Poor Convert Kitchen Waste Into Fuel Savings
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Jun 12 (IPS) - The bio-gas digester on the roof of Hussein Farag's apartment in one of Cairo's poorest districts provides a daily supply of cooking gas produced from the kitchen waste his family would otherwise discard in plastic bags or empty into the clogged sewer below his building.
Carbon Dioxide Emissions Hit Record High in 2012
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 11 (IPS) - Greenhouse gas emissions worldwide rose by 1.4 percent last year, setting a new record, according to data released Monday.
Iceland Renews Push for Aluminium Plant
- Inter Press Service
REYKJAVIK, Jun 09 (IPS) - The new Icelandic government was only a day old when it announced in mid-May that it would do all it could to push ahead with the Helguvik aluminium smelter. Construction for the smelter began in in 2008 but since then has met with a variety of problems, mostly energy-related.
For First Time, U.S. to Lease Offshore Wind Blocks
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 04 (IPS) - The U.S. government announced Tuesday that it would be going forward with long-discussed plans to auction federal leases off the Atlantic Ocean coast for the development of offshore wind energy.
Japan Seeks to Remake Asia-Africa Relationship
- Inter Press Service
YOKOHAMA, Japan, Jun 04 (IPS) - Acutely aware of China's strong presence in resource-rich Africa, Japan, the world's third largest economy, is beefing up its relations with the continent. Participants at a high-level donor conference hosted by Japan this week stressed the need for closer engagement, not through the traditional grants and assistance loans that have hitherto defined the relationship, but rather through trade and investment led by the Japanese private sector.
Peak Water, Peak Oil…Now, Peak Soil?
- Inter Press Service
REYKJAVÍK, Iceland, May 31 (IPS) - Soil is becoming endangered.This reality needs to be part of our collective awareness in order to feed nine billion people by 2050, say experts meeting here in Reykjavík.
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