Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Kumi Naidoo* THE INSTITUTION PRISON, NUUK, Greenland, Jun 20, 2011 (IPS) – Nuuk is a long way from my hometown of Durban, and the Arctic is a long way for an African to come to campaign about climate change. Yet, here I sit, in a jail cell, [...]
Postponing Emissions Cuts Carries Steep Price-tag
June 20, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Stephen Leahy BONN, Jun 20, 2011 (IPS) – If we’re lucky, by the time a tough but fair international treaty to meet the climate change challenge is finalised, it will be largely unnecessary. The snail’s pace of negotiations certainly gives countries plenty of time to understand [...]
The Global Climate Regime on the Brink
June 19, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Martin Khor* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint GENEVA (IDN) – We agreed in Bali in December 2007 to build a much stronger international climate regime to better cope with recent alarming analysis of the disastrous effects of climate change. But instead of achieving this new regime, we now see [...]
China’s Green Blueprint Raises Stakes at U.N. Climate Talks
April 13, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Apr 14, 2011 (IPS) – China’s rise as a leader in the environmentally friendly, low-carbon economy is giving the Asian giant new diplomatic muscle for this year’s round of climate change negotiations leading up to the COP17 U.N. summit in Durban, South Africa [...]
Antarctic Penguin Population Declines with Krill
April 12, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Apr 11, 2011 (IPS) – Two species of Antarctic penguins have declined sharply over the past 30 years as their chief food source has been devastated by a combination of other predators, over-fishing, and rapidly melting sea ice caused by global warming, according to [...]
Bangkok Could Prove Crucial To Avert Global Warming
April 8, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Taro Ichikawa IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BANGKOK (IDN) – One would think that the triple disaster in Japan, unleashed by the 9 magnitude earthquake, and unprecedented flooding and mudslides in the south of Thailand would motivate government officials from around the world to agree on concrete and binding [...]
AFRICA: Anxious Eyes on Green Climate Fund
March 18, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Nastasya Tay JOHANNESBURG, Mar 18, 2011 (IPS) – The African Development Bank says it is concerned about administrative delays holding up progress on the Green Climate Fund – one of the most significant achievements from the Cancún climate talks. "We are very frustrated by the slow progress [...]
Save Climate and Double Food Production With Eco-Farming
March 9, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Mar 8, 2011 (IPS) – Eco-farming could double food production in entire regions within 10 years while mitigating climate change, according to a new U.N. report released Tuesday in Geneva. An urgent transformation to ‘eco-farming’ is the only way to end hunger and face [...]
Spain Backpedals on Renewable Energy
March 9, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Tito Drago MADRID, Mar 8, 2011 (IPS) – Spain put the brakes on the use of clean energies to generate electricity, as the government approved an energy savings programme to cope with its large oil bill which affects its commitment to reduce non-renewable sources by 2020. José [...]
UN Implores Japan for a Big Climate Step in Durban
March 2, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Hiroshi Nagai IDN-InDepth NewsReport TOKYO (IDN) – The top climate change official of the United Nations, Christiana Figueres, has implored governments to swiftly transform the Cancun agreements into substantial action on the ground, and in particular urged Japan to provide clarity on the future of the [...]
