Climate Change

Industrial Agriculture: Too Big to Succeed

By Paul Weinberg
An estimated one billion small farmers scratching out a living growing diverse crops and raising animals in developing countries represent the key to maintaining food production in the face of hotter temperatures and drought, especially in the tropical regions, says Sarah Elton, author of the book, “Consumed: Food for a Finite Planet.”

Mexico’s Climate Laws Ignore Women

By Emilio Godoy
The rural communities of San Miguel and Santo Tomás Ajusco, to the south of Mexico City, are preserving 3,000 of their 7,619 hectares of forest in exchange for payment for environmental services. But the inequality in the communities is far from ecological.

CO2 Producing Hollow Food

By Stephen Leahy
Rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels will make many key food crops like rice and corn less nutritious, a new study shows.

Community Electricity Lights Up Spain

By Inés Benítez
Until recently it was inconceivable for small groups of organised citizens in fully electrified industrialised countries like Spain to generate their own power from clean sources of energy, challenging the prevailing energy model.

Myanmar Wakes Up to Climate Change

By Amantha Perera
Between 2008 and 2013, when Myanmar remained largely closed off to the rest of the world, it suffered a terrible toll at the hands of nature that remained largely unknown.

Petrotrin Aims to Shrink Its Carbon Footprint

By Jewel Fraser
Trinidad and Tobago holds the dubious distinction of being among the top 10 emitters of carbon dioxide per capita in the world, much of it due to the petrochemical industry that is the main driver of its economy.

OP-ED: Caribbean Religious Leaders Inspire IMF Sunday Schools

By Eric LeCompte
Last Fall, I witnessed the Grenada Council of Churches insert themselves into negotiations between their government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) around the island’s debt restructuring and presumed austerity policies. Religious leaders called from pulpits across the tiny island for a “Jubilee” or national debt cancellation.

Energy Efficiency Is an Untapped Goldmine

By Stephen Leahy
The U.S. could create more than 600,000 skilled jobs, cut air pollution and fight climate change while its citizens reap 17 billion dollars in energy savings by doing one simple thing: Boost energy efficiency.

Capitalism Unable to Deal with Climate Change

By Farangis Abdurazokzoda
It is time to craft new politics and economic policies to address the sustainability crisis, according to the latest edition of a flagship report by the Worldwatch Institute, a think tank here.

Debt and Dirty Energy Weigh Heavy on Puerto Rico’s Utility

By Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero
Everyone in Puerto Rico agrees that the island's ailing Electric Power Authority (PREPA) is badly in need of an overhaul, both in engineering and economic terms.

Caribbean Fears Loss of “Keystone Species” to Climate Change

By Desmond Brown
A marine biologist has cautioned that the mass deaths of starfish along the United States west coast in recent months could also occur in the Caribbean region because of climate change, threatening the vital fishing sector.

Q&A: Investment and Research Key to Resilient African Agriculture

By Busani Bafana
There is urgent need to increase the proportion of climate finance for adaptation in Africa by increasing public sector budgets for agriculture and exploring partnerships with the private sector.

Charting a Course for Survival, or Oblivion?

By Stephen Leahy
Hopefully, on Earth Day today, high-level ministers from all countries are thinking about what they can bring to the table at a key set of meetings on climate change in early May.

Mexico’s Climate Change Law – More Than Just Empty Words?

By Emilio Godoy
When Mexico’s climate change law went into effect in October 2012, it drew international praise. But what has happened since then?

Poland Uses Ukraine to Push Coal

By Claudia Ciobanu
A European ‘energy union’ plan proposed by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk as an EU response to the crisis in Ukraine could be a Trojan horse for fossil fuels.

Our Planet’s Future Is in the Hands of 58 People

By Roberto Savio
In case you missed it, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the third and final part of a report on Apr. 13 in which it says bluntly that we only have 15 years left to avoid exceeding the "safe" threshold of a 2°C increase in global temperatures, beyond which the consequences will be dramatic.

Saving Caribbean Tourism from the Sea

By Desmond Brown
Faced with the prospect of losing miles of beautiful white beaches – and the millions in tourist dollars that come with them - from erosion driven by climate change, Barbados is taking steps to protect its coastline as a matter of economic survival.

Q&A: Agriculture Needs a ‘New Revolution’

By Silvia Giannelli
The Millennium Development Goals deadline of 2015 is fast approaching, but according to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), poverty still afflicts one in seven people — and one in eight still goes to bed hungry.

IPCC Climate Report Calls for “Major Institutional Change”

By Carey L. Biron
Greenhouse gas emissions rose more quickly between 2000 and 2010 than anytime during the previous three decades, the world’s top climate scientists say, despite a simultaneous strengthening of national legislation around the world aimed at reducing these emissions.

Turtles Change Migration Routes Due to Climate Change

By Diego Arguedas Ortiz
The critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle has few sanctuaries left in the world, and this is one of them. But in 2012 only 53 nests were counted on the beaches of this national park in Costa Rica. And there is an enemy that conservation efforts can’t fight: the beaches themselves are shrinking.

OP-ED: The World Bank’s Waste of Energy

By Janet Redman
The World Bank’s job is to fight poverty. Key to lifting people out of poverty is access to reliable modern energy. It makes sense.
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