By DEE AYROSO
Fighting for Earth
Tags: global warming
Mother Nature as Lady Justice
By DEE AYROSO
People’s Environmental Conference launches platform confronting climate crisis
“Across Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, workers, peasants, indigenous people, urban poor, fisherfolk, especially women and children who comprise the frontline communities suffer multiple layers of climate vulnerabilities imposed by globalization policies such as mining plunder, land grabbing, slave wages and poverty.”
Morales: ‘The Central Enemy of Mother Earth is Capitalism’
Bolivian President Blames Capitalism for Global Warming By ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE Commondreams.org International Posted by Bulatlat.com COCHABAMBA, Bolivia – Bolivian President Evo Morales said capitalism is to blame for global warming and the accelerated deterioration of the planetary ecosystem in a speech today opening an international conference on climate change and the “rights of Mother…
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.
Green Groups Support Demand for Reduction of Global Carbon Emissions
An alliance of environmental groups, scientists and grassroots organizations expressed support to the call for a 40 percent reduction in carbon emissions, based on 1990 levels, by 2020 and by more than 95 percent by 2050. BY BULATLAT An alliance of environmental groups, scientists and grassroots organizations expressed support to the call for a reduction…
Alliance to Lead National Fight vs. Global Warming, Climate Change
Citing the Philippine government’s lack of a genuine program to address climate change and mitigate its impact on the Filipino people, and the failure of the Kyoto Protocol, a newly-formed alliance called the Philippine Climate Watch Alliance is calling on developed countries and TNCs to reduce their carbon emissions by 50 to 90 percent in…