Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Julio Godoy BONN, Germany, May 18, 2012 (IPS) – The latest session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), taking place May 15-25 in the former German capital Bonn, is the perfect opportunity to reaffirm the enormous and growing body of scientific expertise on [...]
An Argentine Perspective on Degrowth
May 10, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marcela Valente * BUENOS AIRES, May 10, 2012 (Tierramérica) – The controversial concept of degrowth receives little press coverage in a region like Latin America. But the idea of a way of life that is not aimed exclusively at GDP growth does have its proponents in Argentina. [...]
Shale Gas a Bridge to More Global Warming
January 24, 2012 By
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 [...]
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’ [...]
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 [...]
Q&A: Cook Islands Aims for 100 Percent Green Energy by 2020
July 13, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Stephen Leahy interviews HENRY PUNA, Prime Minister of the Cook Islands VIENNA, Jul 13, 2011 (IPS) – "One hundred percent renewable energy by 2020… It is ambitious but it is not impossible," Henry Puna, prime minister of the Cook Islands, told IPS in a recent interview. The Cook [...]
OP-ED: The Good News About Coal
June 28, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Lester R. Brown* WASHINGTON, Jun 28, 2011 (IPS) – During the years when governments and the media were focused on preparations for the 2009 Copenhagen climate negotiations, a powerful climate movement was emerging in the United States: the movement opposing the construction of new coal-fired power plants. [...]
Mauritania Could Lose Its Capital City to the Sea
June 28, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Med Abderrahmane NOUAKCHOTT, Jun 28, 2011 (IPS) – For the past five years, water has been seeping out of the ground beneath parts of Nouakchott, undermining foundations and transforming some areas of the Mauritanian capital into uninhabitable marshes. Tabara Gaye, a widow living in the Socogim PS [...]
