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We are so close: let’s not waste time, let’s not risk lives, let’s not burn billions
Let’s be clear: Copenhagen can still deliver what we need, and it really should deliver without any further delay. This is a critical moment that the world has been working towards for two years. ...
Have we lost trust in each other? Is there a chance can still kiss and make up? The upcoming climate change conference in Copenhagen is our best chance to reafirm our love for our one and only, ...
Developed country leaders at odds with citizens around the world
On 16 and 17 of November, Environment Ministers from 43 countries gathered in Copenhagen for the so called Pre-COP. This meeting was meant to prepare for COP15 itself, the 15th Conference of the ...
Cerca de Copenhague ¿lejos de la Tierra? / Near of Copenhaguen (far from the Earth?)
Debemos afrontar la cumbre de Copenhague escuchando la voz de los más afectados / We must face the Copenhagen summit listening to the voice of those ...
Chinese youth offering ‘gift’ to Obama in exchange of keeping his promise
Nothing is more self-explanatory than the images themselves. Right before Obama paid his visit to China, 11 youth from China used their action to ...
Environment Ministers met for a pre-COP meeting November 16th and 17th
Here's video from the press conference with Yvo de Boer and Connie Hedegaard from earlier today.
During the past two years, in parallel with the El Nino effect and increased sea surface temperatures, the bleaching of coral reefs has been noted in all of the world's main tropical oceans. If global warming continues as predicted, bleaching will become more frequent in the future, with catastrophic effects on coral reefs and the fisheries and tourism industries that depend on them
After a lifetime of working for the environment, Luc Hoffmann, one of the founders of WWF, is optimistic about our ability to save the planet for the future
Buenos Aires - Two weeks of negotiations at the UN climate conference, characterised by WWF as
Hong Kong--While there are still admitted users of Tiger bone and rhino horn as medicine in Hong Kong, 59 percent of Hong Kong Chinese who use traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) claim they would not take medicine containing wild animal parts, according to a new report by TRAFFIC East Asia.
The US announced it was signing the Kyoto Protocol with a small package of domestic measures. (The US and Iceland were the two industrialised countries that had not signed the Protocol...
Buenos Aires.- Today, President Carlos Menem of Argentina stated his country's intention to take on a commitment under the Kyoto Protocol in the same time period as industrialized countries...
Buenos Aires, - If industrialised countries concentrate on reducing their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at home they can benefit the global climate and their economies, according ...
Buenos Aires, 5 November 1998 - Global warming is creating the conditions for an explosive spread in infectious diseases that are already claiming new victims in industrialised countries, according to a scientific report (1) from WWF...
Buenos Aires - Forests across the globe are at grave risk from climate change according to a new report released today by WWF - the World Wide Fund for Nature (1). One-third of the world's forests could be affected in the future. WWF fears a knock-on effect for many of the three-quarters of the world's plant and animal species which depend on forests for their survival. Among them are the grizzly bear, the woodland caribou (reindeer) and the Bengal tiger.
WWF welcomed small but important steps forward in closing the major loopholes written into last years Kyoto agreement on climate change, as two weeks of intergovernmental talks ended today. But the conference did not debate the critical need for industrialised nations to strengthen domestic efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon dioxide.