Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By William Fisher NEW YORK, Aug 26, 2010 (IPS) – With cleanup of the Gulf of Mexico barely underway, energy companies are already assuming a crouching stance in anticipation of a no-holds-barred attack by environmentalists on what the industry says is the next major breakthrough in natural resource [...]
MEXICO: Environmentalist Peasants Seek Justice
August 27, 2010 By
Global Analyst Online – Global News Blog / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Aug 27, 2010 (IPS) – Peasant activists Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera hope to find, at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the justice that eluded them in their home country of Mexico, to which they hope to return to rejoin [...]
Guarding Environment with a Paper-and-Pencil Project
August 25, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Taro Ichikawa IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BANGKOK (IDN) – Asia-Pacific already has the largest number of motorized vehicles in the world and if the present trend continues, the region would in the coming years have more automobiles than Europe and North America combined. In Japan alone, the number of [...]
Environment Group Fumes at UN Report on Nigeria Oil Spills
August 25, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By IDN Environment Desk IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis (IDN) – Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) says that it is "outraged" by reports that a major United Nations investigation into Nigeria oil spills, funded by oil giant Shell, relies more on figures produced by oil companies and Nigerian state statistics [...]
Asia Expects a New Decade in Sustainable Transport
August 25, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Taro Ichikawa IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BANGKOK (IDN) – A new town of about 150,000 people is expected to sprout every day in the next 20 years in the Asia-Pacific region, increasing the urban population from 1.6 billion to 2.7 billion in 2030. This will also influence mobility patterns [...]
Chernobyl Effects Could Last Centuries
August 20, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Pavol Stracansky KIEV, Aug 20, 2010 (IPS) – Almost 25 years after the world’s worst nuclear accident a series of new scientific studies have suggested the effects of the Chernobyl disaster have been underestimated. Scientists last month published information that, contradicting previous claims, animal populations are declining [...]
DEVELOPMENT-PAKISTAN: Flood Aid Exposes Distrust of Gov’t
August 20, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Zofeen Ebrahim KARACHI, Pakistan, Aug 20, 2010 (IPS) – Inundated by appeals through text messages, email and Twitter, as well as in print and broadcast media, that call for donations of dried rations, hygiene kits, buckets, tubs and cooking pots, and straw mats, Ambreen Siddiqui feels lost [...]
MEXICO: Capital Badly in Need of Urban Regeneration
August 20, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Aug 19, 2010 (IPS) – Is urban regeneration feasible in Mexico’s capital city? This is a question asked by planning experts and by a large proportion of the city’s population. Some projects currently underway indicate that the answer could be yes. Ecological architectural [...]
High Level of Nuclear Safety in China
August 18, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Taro Ichikawa IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis TOKYO (IDN) – The United Nations atomic energy agency has affirmed the commitment of the Chinese Government to achieve a high level of safety against a background of massive expansion of the nuclear energy programme. Preparations are at an advanced stage for building [...]
ENVIRONMENT: Uruguay Tries to Solve Its Forestry Puzzle
August 18, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Silvana Silveira* MONTEVIDEO, Aug 17, 2010 (Tierramérica) – "A Uruguayan consumes 40 kilos of paper per year, compared to 400 kilos consumed by someone in Finland. We produce wood pulp to feed foreign consumption," says sociologist María Selva Ortiz, representative of the environmental group Redes-Friends of the [...]
