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POZNAN, Poland (Reuters) - The economic slowdown is “no excuse” to neglect a fight against global warming that could widen water shortages to half of humanity by 2050, delegates told the opening of U.N. climate talks in Poland on Monday.
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama also won praise at the December 1-12 talks of 10,700 delegates from […]
*Lula’s government promotes genetically-modified organisms despite social opposition.
Brazil is home to one of the world’s largest areas of genetically-modified seed cultivations with 15 million hectares in 2007. The greatest increase of these crops occurred under the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da […]
Investment managers at cleantech funds are looking at the world with totally new eyes these days — the financial crisis, which has ravaged stock prices and wiped out major financial institutions, offers buying opportunities that are unprecedented. Now’s the best time to snap up bargains, they say.
The hard numbers prove this ain’t illogical. The US […]
Brasilia, Brazil: Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon forests has flipped from a decreasing to an increasing trend, according to new annual figures released yesterday by the country’s space agency INPE.
Commenting on the figures, Brazilian environment minister Carlos Minc confirmed that the government will on Monday announce forest related carbon emission reduction targets, which will link halting […]
POZNAN, Poland (Reuters) - The world must avoid a “cheap and dirty” fix for the economy that could undermine the fight against global warming, the U.N.’s top climate official said on Sunday.
Yvo de Boer said the world risked a second financial crisis if […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea’s supermarket chains resumed selling U.S. beef Thursday, nearly five months after the government lifted an import ban imposed over fears of mad cow disease.
South Korea banned American beef in 2003 after a case of mad cow […]
Staging a global forum on climate change is a dilemma, for it adds to very problem it is trying to solve.
Around 13,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) will add to Earth’s greenhouse effect from the December 1-12 meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the UNFCCC said.
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