Sustainable Development
- Wed Feb 13 2008
REDD: Growing money on trees
Deforestation is responsible for one-fifth of annual carbon emissions – more than the entire transport sector. Yet a new global scheme to ‘reduce deforestation’ could end up rewarding the companies and governments that cause it.
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Sustainable Development
- Thu Jan 24 2008
EU renewables policy: doubts and flaws
The European Commission’s draft EU Renewable Energy Directive ignores numerous recent warnings on the environmental and social damage of its proposed 10 per cent target for agrofuel use in the transport sector by 2020.
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Sustainable Development
- Thu Jan 24 2008
EU persists with biofuels
The European Union has decided to maintain a target for increasing the use of biofuels despite mounting concerns that its strategy could worsen global hunger.
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Sustainable Development
/Natural Resources
- Fri Jan 18 2008
Tourism at the end of the world
"Hurry! Hurry! See the polar bears, penguins, Arctic glaciers, small pacific islands before they disappear forever due to global warming" Tourism companies are now using climate change as a marketing tool.
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Sustainable Development
- Fri Jan 11 2008
Bali: a missed opportunity
The UN climate conference in Bali was a missed opportunity to act on the greatest challenge in our generation, with a 'road map' agreed. The sketchy Bali Roadmap was the result of getting the US on board at any cost. By Walden Bello.
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Sustainable Development
- Tue Dec 18 2007
The Bali deal is worse than Kyoto
The US will keep on wrecking climate talks as long as those with vested interests in oil and gas fund its political system says George Monbiot.
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Sustainable Development
- Fri Dec 14 2007
What's missing from the climate talks? Justice!
Many social movements and groups that came together in Bali have agreed to establish a coalition called Climate Justice Now! with the aim of intensifying actions to prevent and respond to climate change.
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Sustainable Development
- Wed Dec 12 2007
Industrialised countries must act: Bali mandate at stake
Ministers must be prepared to shift on major issues, with agreement needed on a strong target range for Annex I reductions and commitments needed for resources to tackle climate change in the developing world, both in terms of adaptation and the means to build low carbon economies warned Friends of the Earth International.
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Sustainable Development
- Wed Dec 12 2007
Plantation industries: pay off your ecological debt!
The 13th Conference of Parties of the UNFCCC is likely to give corporations another credit by letting notorious forestry companies in Indonesia claim carbon credits from their industrial tree plantations.
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Sustainable Development
- Tue Dec 11 2007
Protecting the world's forests needs more than just money
"Governments meeting in Bali for the UN Climate Change Conference need to recognise that this may be our last opportunity to stop runaway climate change and that with 18-20% of annual carbon emissions being caused by deforestation, protecting our forests is a key part of this" says a call signed by over 40 NGOs and civil society networks.
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