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Closed-door climate change talks end
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — As environment ministers filed into their afternoon press conference, climate activists held banners and demanded the rich countries to pay their climate debt outside the Tycho Brahe Planetarium, in Copenhagen, yesterday. (Photo: AP)
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AFP) — Environment ministers from 44 key countries on yesterday wrapped up closed-door talks aimed at laying the groundwork for a political agreement at next month's UN conference on global warming....more
Russia pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions
Thursday, November 19, 2009
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Russia indicated yesterday that it is ready to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 25 per cent, if other countries do the same, the president of the European Union said....moreHawaii's famed white sandy beaches shrinking
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
KAILUA, Hawaii (AP) - Jenn Boneza remembers when the white sandy beach near the boat ramp in her hometown was wide enough for people to build sand castles....moreGlobal pile of hazardous waste increases
Sunday, November 15, 2009
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) - A "catastrophic accumulation" of millions of tonnes of 'e-waste' from computers, cellphones and television sets is fuelling a global pile of hazardous waste, an international body warned Friday....moreCountries ranked for climate change investments
Sunday, November 01, 2009
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands (AP) - Investors wanting to put money in climate-friendly businesses would be wise to look at Germany, Brazil or even China rather than at the United States, an international investment group said Monday....moreAustralia may have to evacuate coastal areas — report
Sunday, November 01, 2009
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australia may have to force people to evacuate coastal areas as rising sea levels threaten thousands of homes, an official report has warned....moreWednesday, October 28, 2009
GEORGE Johnson, 57, has witnessed many fish kills in his 40 years of eking out a living from the Black River in St Elizabeth. But the one that occurred in September this year, he believes, is by far the worst....moreEFJ presents Earth-Friendly Awards
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
PROTECT the Environment Trust (PET) is among the five organisations and two private sector companies to be awarded by the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica (EFJ) for their outstanding recycling efforts....moreHope Gardens undergoes improvement
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
WITH an annual budget of $96 million, it will take much more than one fundraising event to help finance the operations of the Hope Botanical Gardens and Zoo....more'There'll be no more dumping in Norbrook'
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
THE National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) has said that it will be going after people who illegally dump garbage in sections of the upscale Norbrook community in St Andrew....moreWednesday, October 28, 2009
PROFESSOR in environmental management at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Elizabeth Thomas-Hope is calling for a culture and behaviour change from Jamaica's government, businesses and citizens to offset a crisis in solid waste disposal....moreJamaica not optimistic for climate deal in December
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
IMPORTANT figures in Jamaica's delegation to the crucial United Nations climate change summit in Denmark in December are doubtful that leaders of developed countries will sign off on measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which fuel global warming....moreWednesday, October 28, 2009
I am in complete agreement with proposals put forth at the 13th World Forestry Congress in Argentina that developing countries be paid to conserve their forests as a significant contribution to reducing emissions....moreThousands of dead fish washed up in Puerto Rico
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Thousands of dead fish are washing up on the shores of a lagoon in Puerto Rico's capital....moreForest carbon payments could secure fair land rights in Latin America
Sunday, October 25, 2009
BUEÑOS Aires, Argentina - Proposals to pay developing countries to conserve billions of tonnes of carbon stored in tropical forests could help secure land rights for some of Latin America's poorest people, a leading forestry research institute said Wednesday....morePoll: US belief in global warming is cooling
Sunday, October 25, 2009
WASHINGTON, USA (AP) - Americans seem to be cooling toward global warming....more
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