IUCN Puts the Accent on Business
The outcome of the June Rio+20 UN conference on sustainable development was the undisputed inability of governments to come to an agreement on moving ahead to protect the planet. Three months later,...
View ArticleSmall Islands Push for New Energy
Most islands are well endowed with one or more renewable energy source – rivers, waterfalls, wind, sunshine, biomass, wave power, geothermal deposits – yet virtually all remain heavily or entirely...
View ArticleFloods Dampen Thai Adaptation Plans
Thailand’s flood-management blueprint received a jolt when the dykes in Sukhothai were breached by the rain-swollen Yom river last week, submerging large stretches of the former royal capital.Prime...
View ArticleCaribbean Islands Brace for Challenges of Climate Change
Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas remembers how quiet – even uneventful – this tiny twin-island federation was for the first four decades of his life. But over the past 10 years, St. Kitts and Nevis,...
View ArticleCaught Between Quarries and Sea Erosion
After more than a century of fighting sea erosion by massively dumping granite boulders along the beaches of southern Kerala state, environmentalists and administrators are beginning to see that this...
View ArticleFunds Crunch Skews Aichi Targets on Biodiversity
The United Nations 11th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Biodiversity (COP 11 CBD), underway in this southern Indian city, is lost on where to garner the billions of dollars...
View ArticlePangolin Trade Betrays Apathy for Biodiversity
Conservationists see the decimation of pangolins (scaly anteaters) in Pakistan as a sign of the callousness with which this country’s rich biodiversity is being traded away for commercial gain....
View ArticleShadow Over Aichi Biodiversity Targets
With negotiations to mobilise resources for preservation of biodiversity at a major United Nations conference going nowhere, the Group of 77 and China have hinted at possible suspension of the ‘Aichi...
View ArticleDubious Awards Presented at Davos
Only a stone’s throw from the Davos World Economic Forum meeting, a group of non-governmental organisations presented the annual Public Eye Awards this week to Goldman Sachs and Royal Dutch Shell....
View ArticleMore Dead Than Red
The World Bank has declared the Red Sea-Dead Sea canal project feasible. Designed to “save the Dead Sea”, “desalinate water and/or generate hydroelectricity at affordable prices in Jordan, Israel and...
View ArticleInhospitable Flows the Nile
A 4,200-year-old relief in the Tomb of Mereruka in Sakkara depicts the staggering array of fish that once inhabited the Nile River and its wetlands. Ancient Egyptian fishermen with linen nets haul in...
View ArticleFilling the Granaries in Burkina Faso
OUAGADOUGOU, Aug 28 2012 (IPS) The seeds were sown, and the harvest is beginning to come in. Burkina Faso farmers are reaping the benefits of their government’s programme to develop and popularise...
View ArticleFarming Among the Waste in Cameroon
Smallholder farmers around the Yaounde city centre are increasingly farming on urban wastewater sites. Credit: Monde Kingsley Nfor/IPSYAOUNDÉ, Aug 30 2012 (IPS) Cameroonian urban famer Juliana Numfor...
View ArticleInternational Food Prices Again at Record Levels, World Bank Warns
Food prices are on the rise again. Above, an irrigated field in Kakamas, South Africa. Africa is particularly vulnerable to the effects of rising prices. Credit: Patrick Burnett/IPSWASHINGTON, Aug 30...
View ArticleKashmir’s Melting Glaciers May Cut Ice With Sceptics
Kashmir's Kolhai glacier has been receding steadily. Credit: Athar Parvaiz/IPSSRINAGAR, India, Aug 31 2012 (IPS) Jowhar Ahmed, an air-conditioner dealer in Srinagar, is pleased at a spurt in business...
View ArticleMen and Women Farming Together Can Eradicate Hunger
Beatrice Mueni Mutisya inspects her maize crops grown in semi-arid Eastern Kenya. Studies have shown that men and women farming together can lift millions of people out of hunger. Credit: Isaiah...
View ArticleSmall Step to Set Up the Biggest Marine Park
The world’s largest marine park is due to be launched in the Cook Islands located in the Pacific Ocean about 3,000 km from New Zealand. Covering an area of almost a million square kilometres, the park...
View ArticleGetting Into the Business of Environment
JEJU, South Korea, Sep 8 2012 (IPS) Regulations that stand in the way of conservation programmes lower their likely success, experts warned at the World Conservation Congress of the International Union...
View ArticleKyoto Protocol May End With the Year
BANGKOK, Sep 9 2012 (IPS) As government negotiators from the world’s poorest countries ended a round of United Nations climate change talks in the Thai capital, they sounded a grave note about what...
View ArticleIUCN Puts the Accent on Business
Business is being encouraged to play an increasing role in saving the environment around the world. Credit: Amantha Perera/IPS.JEJU, South Korea, Sep 12 2012 (IPS) The outcome of the June Rio+20 UN...
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