Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jan 24, 2012 (IPS) – Hundreds of thousands of shale gas wells are being "fracked" in the United States and Canada, allowing large amounts of methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas, to escape into the atmosphere, new studies have shown. Shale gas production [...]
Using Ocean Temperature Differences to Create Renewable Energy
January 24, 2012 By
Republished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By. James Burgess of Oilprice.com Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) is an idea for creating renewable energy by exploiting the difference in ocean temperatures between the surface and the seabed. The OTEC permit office first opened in 1981 as part of NOAA, America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, [...]
INDIA: Industrial Pollution Brings Crocodile Tears
December 7, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Malini Shankar DANDELI, India, Dec 7, 2011 (IPS) – Industrial pollution from a paper manufacturing factory in one of India’s most precious biodiversity hotspots is wreaking havoc on the local ecology, driving up the population of wild crocodiles in the area while simultaneously destroying the creatures’ habitat [...]
Brazil Pushes for Sustainable Development Goals
December 6, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Fabíola Ortiz RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 6, 2011 (IPS) – With seven months to go until the Rio+20 conference on sustainable development, Brazil is uniting in support of proposals to be included in the summit’s draft final document, which aim to transfer its successful national social and [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE: Biofuels Are Not the Solution
December 6, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Nnimmo Bassey * DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 5, 2011 (Tierramérica) – Science tells us that we are heading for a climate crisis, yet it is within our means to change course. However, some very worrying false solutions are on the table in the United Nations Framework Convention [...]
Sweden, UK and Germany Top Climate Protectors
December 6, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Kristin Palitza DURBAN, South Africa , Dec 6, 2011 (IPS) – Sweden, the United Kingdom and Germany are the top countries to fight climate change, according to the 2012 Climate Change Performance Index, whose results were published at the United Nations climate change summit today. Sweden, the [...]
TRADE: Small Steps towards Emission Reduction Deal
December 6, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Kristin Palitza DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 5 , 2011 (IPS) – Emerging economies China, South Africa and Brazil have indicated their openness to legally-binding carbon emission reduction targets from 2020 during the United Nations climate change summit in Durban, South Africa. Climate experts say the three countries’ [...]
Australia Going Solar – Gonna Cost Ya, Mate
December 6, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By. John C.K. Daly of Oilprice.com Green activists, take note – for Australia fully to embrace solar power, Canberra would have to spend $100 billion, with photovoltaic cells to generate the electricity covering an area twice the size of Sydney in order to replace Australia’s indigenous inexpensive coal-fired power plants [...]
"Fracking" for Shale Gas: Neither Clean nor Green
December 5, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Stephen Leahy * DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 5, 2011 (Tierramérica) – Hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" is being used to tap the last remaining natural gas deposits across large areas of the United States and western Canada, fueling continued dependence on hydrocarbons instead of a shift to genuinely [...]
OP-ED: The Future of Carbon Markets: Taking Politics Seriously
November 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Peter Newell * BRIGHTON, United Kingdom, Nov 22, 2011 (Tierramérica) – Carbon markets are under attack on all sides, despite ongoing faith in their ability to deliver meaningful reductions in greenhouse gases (GHGs). As the Durban climate summit approaches and as the first commitment period of the [...]
