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GROWING A GREEN COLLAR ECONOMY
by Mark Sommer
In an economic downturn long on loss and short on solutions, few buzzwords have travelled more rapidly from the margins to the mainstream than the term "green jobs", writes Mark Sommer, host of the award-winning, internationally-syndicated radio programme, A World of Possibilities.
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MISGUIDED PHILANTHROPY CANNOT FEED AFRICA
by Anuradha Mittal
The biotech industry is using the increase in global hunger as a tool to win support for GM crops, writes Anuradha Mittal, executive director of the Oakland Institute and the editor of Voices from Africa: African Farmers & Environmentalists Speak out Against the New Green Revolution.
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AFRICA COULD LOSE BIG IN ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS WITH EU
by Aileen Kwa
Given the way the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations have been based on the requirement for reciprocal market opening with the European Union (EU), they are likely to bring more losses than gains for Africa and make the path to development even more difficult, writes Aileen Kwa, coordinator of the Trade and Development Programme at the South Centre, Geneva.
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ECO-AGRICULTURE CAN FEED WORLD, WHILE HEALING EARTH
by Lim Li Ching
While few question that ecological agriculture is environmentally and socially desirable, there are fears it is insufficiently productive. This is not the case, writes Lim Li Ching, a Senior Fellow at the Oakland Institute.
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THE POSSIBLE AMAZON
by Marina Silva
The Amazon constitutes a strategic reserve of potential for a new kind of development for Brazil. The opportunities depend on a structural change in focus which has already been made by some sectors of society, government, and businesses, but at a scale that is still insufficient, writes Marina Silva, senator and former environment minister of Brazil.
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BIOFUELS AND FOOD SECURITY: CONFLICT OR COMPLEMENTARITY?
by Ignacy Sachs
INDIA: AS THE ECONOMY GROWS, SO DOES HUNGER
by Anuradha Mittal
CLIMATE CHANGE: WE NEED A PROACTIVE MEDIA
by Mario Lubetkin
BIOFUELS AND CLIMATE CHANGE: A CURE THAT MAKES THE DISEASE WORSE
by Vandana Shiva
ARE WE REALLY RUNNING OUT OF OIL?
by Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero
WATERS ARE RISING: CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION MUST COME FAST
by Anote Tong
EU: TIGHTER EMISSIONS FOR TRANSPORT A CLEAR WIN-WIN STRATEGY
by Jos Dings
HOW TRADE RULES CAN SERVE THE ENVIRONMENT
by Pascal Lamy
BALI: FIRST STEPS ON A ROUGH ROAD
by Maurice Strong
GLOBALISATION, EQUITY, AND CLIMATE CHANGE
by Vandana Shiva
SUBSIDIES DRIVE US CORN ETHANOL BOOM DESPITE MAJOR DRAWBACKS
by Mark Sommer
BIOFUELS: NO SILVER BULLET AGAINST FOSSIL FUELS
by Vicente Paolo Yu III
AFRICA MUST BE HEARD ON CLIMATE CHANGE
by Wangari Maathai
THE ALIGNMENT OF FORCES IN THE ETHANOL WAR
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ENVIRONMENT: Scientists Study the Riches of the Mexican Pacific
By Emilio Godoy*
MEXICO CITY - Mexico’s Pacific coast, one of the world's richest seaboards in terms of biodiversity, has been the focus of very few scientific studies. A new observatory aims to fill that void.
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ENVIRONMENT-URUGUAY: Invasion of the Sand Dunes
By Inés Acosta
CIUDAD DE LA COSTA, Uruguay - "A road used to run through here, the sidewalk was over there, and this was the neighbour’s yard. That was an esplanade where people parked their cars, and that area over there was a plaza," says Jackeline, pointing to enormous sand dunes that have swallowed up everything, even entire trees.
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CARIBBEAN: Deportation Row Takes Centre-Stage at Caricom
By Bert Wilkinson
GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Caribbean leaders are due to meet for a full working week starting Thursday to discuss issues ranging from climate change to the global economic crisis.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Europe Feels the U.S. Sneeze
By Matthew Berger
LONDON - Governments and interest groups around the world followed the U.S. House of Representatives' vote Friday on the first U.S. policy to limit the country's greenhouse gas emissions. They were especially interested in Europe, where a system similar to the bill's cap-and-trade scheme already exists and where EU countries agreed last December to tough emissions targets.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: 2020 Deadline Is the Crucial "Litmus Test"
By Stephen Leahy
VIENNA - "So who here thinks there will be a meaningful deal in Copenhagen?" Few of the more than 600 energy ministers, officials and experts from 80 countries attending the Vienna Energy Conference raised their hands in response to the conference moderator's question about the final round of climate negotiations this December in Copenhagen.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: India’s Monsoon Predictions More Uncertain
By Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI - Predicting the monsoons - a risky proposition despite the deployment of satellites and supercomputers - appears to have become iffier thanks to climate change.
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U.S.: House Passes Controversial Climate Legislation
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - Amid furious lobbying on both sides, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly approved landmark legislation Friday designed to reduce the nation's greenhouse emissions that contribute to global warming 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050.
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ENVIRONMENT: Japan to Take Leadership Role Toward Copenhagen
Catherine Makino interviews TETSUO SAITO, Japanese Minister of Environment
TOKYO - Environment Minister Tetsuo Saito talked to IPS about Japan giving technical and financial support to developing countries and its goal of cutting its greenhouse emissions by 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. Japan is the world’s fifth- largest greenhouse gas emitter.
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DEVELOPMENT: Green Energy for All by 2030?
By Stephen Leahy
VIENNA - While industrialised countries struggle to switch from climate-damaging, carbon-based energy to greener energy sources, much of the world is desperately energy poor, with 1.6 billion people having no access to electricity and 2.4 billion relying on wood and dung for heat and cooking.
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Q&A: Water Scarcity Threatens Half the Planet
Julio Godoy Interviews JONATHAN BAILLIE, Zoological Society of London*
ROME - If the world's governments fail to reach an immediate agreement on how to manage water resources by 2030, half the planet's population will not have enough water to survive, scientist Jonathan Baillie told Tierramérica.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: U.N. Launches "Seal the Deal" Campaign
By Haider Rizvi
UNITED NATIONS - Growing U.S. support for U.N. initiatives is raising hopes among those who want to see the world community take immediate and concrete action to tackle climate change, although their optimism is also tinged with scepticism.
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EAST TIMOR: UN Helps to Mitigate Disaster Risk
By Matt Crook
DILI - Disasters happen regularly in East Timor, but until now, the institutions called on to deal with them have struggled to effectively react to seasonal events that impact thousands of Timorese lives every year.
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HEALTH: Climate Change Brings New Diseases
By Julio Godoy
BERLIN - As its name suggests, the West Nile virus, a leading cause of a form of meningitis and a neuro-invasive disease, has until recently been reported mostly in tropical and sub-tropical African regions. But it is now about to become a global virus.
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BRAZIL: ‘Historic’ National Commitment to Wind Energy
By Fabiana Frayssinet
RIO DE JANEIRO - A commitment signed by federal and state authorities in Brazil Thursday was described by the energy minister as a "historic step" towards promoting wind power.
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U.S.: Govt Report Calls for Swift Action to Avoid Climate Chaos
By Ben Case
NEW YORK - Fiercer heat waves and wildfires in the U.S. western states, bigger storm surges along the country’s coasts, and disruptions to energy, water and transportation systems are just some of the expected impacts of climate change, according to a new White House report that marks the first scientific statement from the Barack Obama administration acknowledging that the problem is already directly impacting U.S. citizens.
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ARGENTINA: Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Engine
By Marcela Valente*
BUENOS AIRES - A town in Argentina has launched a programme that requires restaurants and other food producers to hand over their used vegetable oils to be distilled into biodiesel, which will be used to run the city's vehicles and public transportation.
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SCIENCE: Hybrid Chestnut Trees Hold Promise as Carbon Sponges
By Katie Mattern
WASHINGTON - Reducing carbon levels in the atmosphere may be as simple as planting a new breed of hybridised chestnut trees, according to a new study by Purdue University Associate Professor Douglass Jacobs.
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Q&A: "The Global Crisis Is Really About a 140-dollar Barrel of Oil"*
Chris Arsenault interviews economist JEFF RUBIN
VANCOUVER - Sitting in the restaurant of Vancouver’s posh Fairmount Waterfront Hotel, the former chief economist for one of Canada’s largest banks doesn’t seem like the typical apocalyptic peak oil theorist.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Big Carbon Players Jockey for Advantage
By Stephen Leahy
NY-ÅLESUND, Svalbard, Norway - Political and business leaders may agree in principle that climate change is a serious threat, but there is a startling lack of consensus and a 'you-go-first' attitude on taking action, even amongst a small group of high-level decision makers disconnected from their cell phones here in the Arctic.
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