Sustainability and Justice in the High Seas
<p>Greenpeace Southeast Asia urged Philippine-based tuna canneries to step up improvements in their systems and business practices to address issues on labor rights, sustainability, and traceable produce
<p>Greenpeace Southeast Asia urged Philippine-based tuna canneries to step up improvements in their systems and business practices to address issues on labor rights, sustainability, and traceable produce
World leaders at the G20 summit disappointed environmental groups on Thursday who said their commitment to fight climate change had been vague. The leaders reaffirmed a previous commitment to sign a U.N. climate deal this year, a step the U.N. climate-change chief said was useful, though action would be better.
Can solar power match nuclear energy? While solar energy may be nothing but nuclear energy produced by sun rays, the earthen reality is that it's too expensive yet to match coal-based or nuclear power .
A draft statement which would confirm G20 leaders' commitment to sign a new climate pact in December and support low-carbon growth drew mixed reactions from green groups and policymakers Tuesday. Environment analysts say more was unlikely from an April 2 summit of leaders of developed and emerging countries focused on preventing global recession from becoming a depression.
Nagpur: Greenpeace, an NGO, has set up solar panels at two schools to power 10 fans and two computers at Jalka village in Yavatmal district of Vidarbha, visited last year by Rahul Gandhi to meet Kalavati, the widow of a farmer who had committed suicide.
Economic stimulus plans being rolled out across the world could commit countries to rapid growth in greenhouse gas emissions, cancelling out some of the green initiatives included within them, analysis has found.
This year will see an intensive round of international negotiations, culminating in the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit in December as governments thrash out a deal to combat climate change.
ROYAL Dutch Shell, censured twice by Britain's ad police for exaggerating its commitment to green issues, is hoping to avoid controversy in its latest ad campaign. It isn't clear if it has succeeded.
"CARBON TAX STRIKES ME AS A MORE DIRECT, A more transparent and a more effective approach (of countering global warming)." This reads like just another line from the ongoing carbon tax versus cap-and-trade debate, except that it comes from Rex Tillerson, the CEO of the world's largest oil company Exxon-Mobil. For decades, Exxon
The year 2009 is a do-or-die year for a new global climate change deal, partly because negotiations are scheduled to end this December. With only 12 months left to negotiate, there is still no agreement on the big issues. These include the transfer of low-polluting technology to poor countries and assigning responsibility for cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.