This report discusses how Denmark - a country whose major agricultural organizations have committed to become carbon neutral by 2050 - can achieve carbon neutral agriculture. The report’s lessons can inform not only Denmark’s agricultural future, but also that of other advanced agricultural economies.
This report analyses options for scaling up existing estimates of ecosystem service values to larger geographical scales. It also presents a case study of wetlands at the European level and discusses the results and policy applications.
Phthalates have pervaded the toy market without raising much alarm. China that has cornered 70 per cent of the global toy market does not regulate their use. International standards dealing with toy safety ignore them. While EU took the lead in imposing limits for phthalates in toys, the US has …
DEC 07: Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen officially welcomed delegates to Denmark for cop -15, and urged them to take advantage of the “unprecedented political will” to reach an agreement. Delegates made predictable introductory remarks, except a negotiator from Papua New Guinea, who asked that the cop be empowered …
“This is what democracy looks like,” chanted a chorus of young activists, arrested on December 16, when they tried to break into Bella Centre, the site for official un climate negotiations. The young activists were handcuffed and made to sit in rows that ran deep, on a wet, muddy field …
It seems like the publishing version of Steven Spielberg movie where alien invasion causes traditional adversaries to join together. On January 6, 56 newspapers, in Pakistan and India, in Israel and Lebanon, in Taiwan and China, in Greece and Turkey, in Africa and in North, South and Central America published …
A gathering of almost 45,000 people in one city for 10 days is bound to prompt publishers to come out with special issues. The most successful operation was COP 15 Post, a daily special by the English language Copenhagen Post. Copies were available everywhere, from metro stations to markets, apart …
Star artists have always produced installations during various UN climate meets. But the proliferation of public art during the Copenhagen meet was remarkable. These installations in public spaces helped ordinary citizens to reflect upon the issues at hand.Seven meter project: A project installed all around the city was meant to …
Remember the Yes Men? Last year, they brought out a perfect fake edition of New York Times declaring the end of Gulf War. They were at the climate negotiation as well. On December 14, journalists all around the world received a press release from Canada’s environment agency Environment Canada, declaring …
We know what the conference was supposed to agree upon: drastic emission reduction targets by industrialized countries and actions supported by finance and technology by emerging countries such as India. After two years of intense negotiations and heightened concerns related to the growing impacts of climate change, the world was …
Vandana Shiva THE COPENHAGEN climate change summit was probably the largest gathering where world's political leaders and negotiators came to work on innovative yet achievable solutions to climate change. Climate chaos is already costing millions of lives and billions of dollars. Science tells us that to keep temperature rise within …
Ask All Countries To Submit Emission Reduction Targets And Sign On Accord WITH the January 31 deadline drawing close, the United Nations and Denmark have stepped up the effort to get all countries to sign the Copenhagen Accord. UN Secretary-General ban ki-Moon and Danish prime minister Lars Locke Rasmussen have …
Ever since his second term as prime minister began in May, Manmohan Singh has been out on foreign tours so often that in South Block he is now jocularly known as the 'Flying Sikh'--a sobriquet reserved for India's most famous athlete of the 1960s. In June, Manmohan was in the …
For a species that is facing the gravest threat to its sole habitat we seem to be pretty casual about saving it as the recently concluded Climate Change Conference at Copenhagen demonstrated. You could forgive the dinosaurs--they didn't know that a meteorite was going to clobber the earth leading to …
After failing at Copenhagen, we pinned our hopes on Mexico City; in Mexico, we'll look for some place else Barun Roy / New Delhi December 31, 2009, 0:27 IST Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. That
T. Jayaraman The strategy of the major developing nations has provided a reprieve from the danger of the breakdown of global negotiations. But their compromise highlights the dilemma of engaging the United States without allowing it to dictate the global climate agenda. It is evident that the Copenhagen climate summit …
Two lines of evidence nearly brought down the last-minute climate agreement brokered in Copenhagen by US President Barack Obama: studies indicating that the impacts of global warming could be more severe than previously thought, and that rich countries could do more to counter the problem without breaking the bank.
It is easy to feel disappointed by the accord brokered last week by US President Barack Obama at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen. The document's broad outlines do not constitute a treaty, nor is it even clear whether it should technically be called a global …
