By KHADIJA SHARIFE Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat.com The water is crystalline, the sand is whiter than white, and elegantly bent palm trees sway in the breeze. This is how the Seychelles markets itself: as “another world.” Tourism is the mainstay of this heavenly island, averaging 20 percent of GDP and 60 percent of foreign…
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The Price of Environmental Destruction? There Is None
By Andrew Simms International Commondreams.org Posted by Bulatlat.com Putting a price on nature becomes meaningless if we treat the ecosystems upon which we depend as mere commodities with a price for trading The economy is no stranger to creating its own fantasy world with little or no relation to the real one. We witnessed the…
Copenhagen Talks End With Agreement, But No Binding Deal: So, How Screwed Are We?
Alternet International Posted By Bulatlat.com ‘The governments which moved so swiftly to save the banks have bickered and filibustered while the biosphere burns.’ Last night a tentative agreement was reached between major parties at the COP15 climate change talks in Copenhagen, but will need to be approved by the 193 nations at the gathering. Initial…
News in Pictures: US Urged Not to Evade Responsibility for Climate Change
Multisectoral groups held a protest in front of the US embassy last December 7, marking the first day of the international climate change negotiations. The protesters called for genuine and immediate actions to make accountable the world’s biggest polluters, headed by the United States, cut down their greenhouse gases emissions and pay for their environmental…
Coal-Fired Plants Undermine Arroyo’s Approval of Climate-Change Law
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
The Arroyo administration will have to work extra hard to prove that it is sincere in addressing climate change and its impacts. Signing the climate-change bill into law is one thing – approving the operation of coal-fired power plants, which have been identified as one of the dirtiest power-generation methods, makes a mockery of it.
Ondoy and Climate Change
By ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com MANILA — According to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa), Ondoy brought Metro Manila its highest amount of rainfall in the last 42 years. “In 1967, a typhoon brought Metro Manila 334 mm of rain in 24 hours,” said Pagasa spokesman Nathaniel Cruz in an interview with…
Analysis: Beyond Ondoy and Climate Change, Blame Goes to Arroyo, Teodoro
By ARNOLD PADILLA MANILA — “A President must be on the job 24/7, ready for any contingency, any crisis, anywhere, anytime.” “As a country in the path of typhoons… we must be as prepared as the latest technology permits to anticipate natural calamities when that is possible; to extend immediate and effective relief when it…
IPs Contributed Least to Climate change, but Bore its Brunt the Most
By VENCY D. BULAYUNGAN PIA-Ifugao/Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com BANAUE, Ifugao – Indigenous peoples (IPs) have contributed little to climate change and yet they are among those who suffer its adverse consequences the most. One of the causes of climate change is carbon dioxide resulting from use of burning fossil fuels which most IPs do…
Climate Change Spells Hunger for Rural, Coastal Communities
By ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat MANILA — In the urban areas, climate change tends to be thought about in the abstract. But in the rural and coastal communities, the phenomenon is very tangible. “Here in the cities, we tend to think of climate change only as a reason for having to postpone our outings, because…
Corporate, Large-Scale Mining Worsens Climate Change
By ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat BAGUIO CITY — The representative of an indigenous peoples’ federation in the Cordillera reported at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) that corporate and large-scale mining worsens climate change and calls for the moratorium on large-scale mining and extractive industries in indigenous territories.…
Corporate Lobby Lording it Over in UN Conference on Climate Change’ – Green Groups
Environmental groups said that corporate lobby, especially from the oil and energy industries, have a strong voice even among the ranks of civil society organizations during the recent United Nations (UN) conference on climate change. Green groups are therefore calling on the peoples of the world to take direct action to pressure developed countries to…