Excerpt from a lecture entitled Climate change and health: preparing for unprecedented challenges, presented by Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, in Bethesda, Maryland on December 10 As the climate scientists tell us, even if greenhouse gas emissions were to stop...
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Biofuels – A New Threat to Climate and Climate Justice
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Suckered Again: The Bali Deal is Worse Than Kyoto
By George Monbiot, The Guardian, December 17, 2007 ‘After 11 days of negotiations, governments have come up with a compromise deal that could even lead to emission increases. The highly compromised political deal is largely attributable to the position of the United States, which was heavily...
Trying to Square the Climate Circle
By William Bowles, Creative-I Sink or Swim – The ‘choice’ apparently, is yours according to Hilary Benn, but only if you can breath under water and swim Here, in the UK we have a minister for the environment, Hilary Benn is his name, son of doyen of the ‘left’ of the Labour Party, Anthony...
Brazilian Indigenous Peoples Protest Agribusiness and Biofuels
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Indigenous Peoples Condemn Exclusion from Bali Talks
Statement of the International Forum Of Indigenous Peoples on Climate Change at the High Level Segment Of the 13th Conference of the Parties Thank you, Mr. President Chair and delegates On behalf of the International Forum of Indigenous Peoples on Climate Change (IFIPCC), I would like to draw your...
Hoodwinked in Bali on Carbon Credits
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Ross Gelbspan: It’s Too Late to Stop Climate Change
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Poor Hit Hardest by Climate Change
By Michael Casey Associated Press BALI, Indonesia — Surrounded by rising seas and short of water, the glitzy city state of Singapore has built one of the world’s largest desalination plants and is paying Dutch experts tens of millions of dollars to devise ways to protect their island...
Climate Change Debate Fuels Greenwash Boom
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