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 [...]
The Tale of Two Cleaned Up Asian Cities
November 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Taro Ichikawa IDN-InDepth NewsFeature DALIAN (IDN) – The partner cities of Dalian in Northern China and Kitakyushu in Western Japan have distinguished themselves as dedicated proponents of pollution control and clean environment. Back in the 1960s and 1970s the two cities were severely polluted by heavy industry [...]
The Rush for Oil in West Africa – The New Wild West?
November 18, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Meena Bhandari FREETOWN, Nov 18, 2011 (IPS) – There is a new oil rush off the coast of West Africa. But there are fears that the sector is not sufficiently regulated, and watchdog groups are raising concerns about transparency and governance in the region. Anticipation is building [...]
Unique Mexican Oasis in Danger of Vanishing
November 18, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Nov 18, 2011 (IPS) – A rare wetlands ecosystem in the Chihuahuan desert in northern Mexico that may hold key information about the origins of life on earth – and even about possible life on Mars – is in serious danger of disappearing [...]
CENTRAL ASIA: Together They Lose
November 18, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Christopher Pala ALMATY, Kazakhstan, Nov 18, 2011 (IPS) – Rarely have so many donor countries spent so much for so long to achieve so little. In fact, the scores of Western countries ranging from the Netherlands to the United States that have tried for 20 years to [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE: A Rising Sea Threatens Pacific Islands
November 16, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Rousbeh Legatis* NEW YORK, Nov 15, 2011 (IPS) – As world leaders gear up to spend the coming weeks in South Africa haggling over economically bearable cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, climate change is already exacerbating environmental conditions and threatening the lives and livelihoods of thousands of [...]
World’s Biggest Hydropower Scheme Will Leave Africans in the Dark
November 15, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Kristin Palitza CAPE TOWN , Nov 15, 2011 (IPS) – South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo have signed an agreement to build a major hydroelectric power project, which is said to bring electricity to more than half of the continent’s 900 million people. But economic [...]
CHINA IS CHANGING
August 15, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN Recent events in the port city of Dalian in north-east China where public protests forced the local Government to accept a demand for closing down a chemical plant following an accident and for re-locating it elsewhere show a new style of political management. This new style is marked by [...]
