Posts Tagged ‘developing countries’

• Inequality between rich and poor nations helps fuel a climate of mistrust and sabotages efforts to secure a climate deal

  The 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen, which many have said was our last chance to take action against “the greatest threat the world has ever faced”, ended in a failure. For over 15 years delegates and …

• The “Danish text” makes developing nations furious and Naomi Klein says the deal we really need is not even on the table

  Here are some of the biggest and most interesting news today related to the ongoing COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen: A draft text for a potential final agreement in Copenhagen was leaked today to the Guardian. The “Danish text” has …

• Climate Racist White Australia threatens Developing World with Climate Genocide

  “Pro-coal, pro-pollution Australia is essentially committed to business-as–usual (BAU) in the face of the climate emergency and to maintaining its world-leading per capita GHG pollution position.” Australia has had a notorious history of imposing invasion, occupation, holocaust and genocide on …

• George Monbiot: The rich can relax. We just need the poor world to cut emissions. By 125%

  George Monbiot, Europe’s leading green commentator, gives his rather negative opinion about the British and G8 climate strategy which he says “just doesn’t add up”. Monbiot argues that the British climate plan, which the G8 pretty much adopted as its …

• Overpopulation is not the problem – overconsumption by the rich few is

  I often hear people saying that overpopulation is the main problem to our environmental and ecological problems. Some people even claim that it’s responsible for global warming. I also agreed with this idea before. But after reading more about the …

• Watch: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon criticizes G8 climate efforts

  During the G8 the world leaders failed to agree on specific targets for climate cuts. They only agreed on “substantially reduce” global emissions by 2050, without any legally binding targets or a roadmap. The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon …

• Tamara Stark: Don’t blame China!

  Photo credit: MK Media Productions Tamara Stark, Communications Director at Greenpeace in the UK, writes this spot on blog post about the environmental “China bashing” in the international media. “Having spent the last three years living in China, I and …

• Gore: The whole auto industry needs to be transformed

  Photo credit: World Resources Institute Staff Al Gore talked about the failing auto industry in USA, “clean coal” and the environmental work being done in China in a recent interview with Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria. In the interview Gore said that …

• Chinese Premier: Rich nations should ditch ‘unsustainable’ lifestyles

  Photo credit: World Economic Forum During a meeting, with focus on development and transfer of technology that can help tackle climate change, in Beijing with 76 nations attending the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said that “developed countries have a responsibility …

• “We would like the rest of the world to follow you”

  Nidhi Jamwa from the Centre for Science and Environment India asks in the organisations journal Down to Earth “why green projects in India are hot favourite of international NGOs?” Nidhi Jamwa focuses on a recently started green Sierra Club initiative …