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February 18, 2010
From the Frontline of Environment
Through coverage of issues like food security, extractive industries, biodiversity and climate change, IPS aims to give a voice to people whose stories are seldom heard. IPS also hopes to highlight the various challenges they face in this globalised world: health and food insecurity, environment degradation, and poverty.
ENERGY-ARGENTINA: Agrofuels Rev Their Engines
Marcela Valente* -
BUENOS AIRES, Feb 17 (Tierramérica) – In a measure that was delayed by supply problems, this year Argentina is beginning to require that gasoline be mixed with ethanol and diesel fuel with biodiesel, at a proportion of five percent, to possibly reach 20 percent by 2015.
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ENVIRONMENT-HONDURAS: Forest Corruption a Major Challenge
Thelma Mejía* -
TEGUCIGALPA, Feb 17 (Tierramérica) – The effects of climate change in Honduras have a local accomplice. Not only are forests suffering from global warming; they are also the victim of illegal logging.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: U.N. to Mobilise Funds for Developing Nations
Daniel Stahl
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 15 – After countries failed to reach a binding agreement on greenhouse gas emissions at the crucial Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen last December, the United Nations moving forward to enforce a pledge to help developing countries cope with the worst impacts.
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ENERGY: Planting New Seeds for the Take-Off
Cam McGrath
CAIRO, Feb 15 – A salty, crunchy salad herb known to gourmands as samphire could revolutionise agriculture in the Middle East by providing food, fodder and fuel without using a single drop of freshwater.
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Q&A: The Two Faces of Agriculture
Julio Godoy interviews UNEP chief ACHIM STEINER* -
BERLIN, Feb 14 (Tierramérica) – The challenge of the 21st century is to transform agriculture into a good administrator of biodiversity and reverse its destructive capacity, without restricting its mission to feed a growing world population, said Achim Steiner, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: The Day After Tomorrow Might Have Been Yesterday
Matthew Berger
WASHINGTON, Feb 12 – When the 2004 film “The Day After Tomorrow” depicted the northern United States buried under tens of feet of snow following an abrupt change in global climate patterns, it cemented the association in the public consciousness between climate change and extreme weather events.
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GUYANA: Pro-Forest Measures Anger Miners
Bert Wilkinson* -
GEORGETOWN, Feb 12 (Tierramérica) – The mining industry in Guyana is a vocal opponent of new conditions and regulations adopted by the government, which has engaged in a campaign to get millions in international donations for preserving the Amazon jungle as part of the country’s contribution to mitigating climate change.
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ENVIRONMENT: World Bank Faces Tiger Trap in Burma
Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK, Feb 12 – As the World Bank embarks on its latest foray to protect Asian forests that are home to wild tigers, one of the continent’s iconic predators, a visible trap looms in military-ruled Burma.
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