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CLIMATE CHANGE: EU Car Makers Have a Long Road Ahead (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2007 at 03:00:41
| BRUSSELS, Aug 2 (IPS) - Over the next few months, members of the European
Parliament (MEPs) will mull proposed limits on the amount of
greenhouse gases emitted by the traffic that clogs up the
continent's roads each day. If the experience so far this
year is anything to go by, the MEPs will almost certainly be
heavily lobbied by car makers determined to avoid measures that
could prove vital in fighting climate change but which they deem
too costly. |
PAKISTAN: Devastating Floods Fail To Move Media (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2007 at 09:00:45
| KARACHI, Aug 2 (IPS) - "Media is not interested in human suffering
where the process of death is slow," lashes out Sadiqa
Salahuddin, director of the Indus Resource Centre, a
non-governmental organisation (NGO), working in the
flood-affected area of Sindh, in Pakistan. |
ENVIRONMENT: UN Skips Gender Perspective in Climate Change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2007 at 12:00:36
| UNITED NATIONS, Aug 2 (IPS) - When the United Nations concluded a two-day debate
Wednesday on the potential devastation from climate change, it
covered a lot of territory: deforestation, desertification,
greenhouse gases, renewable energy sources, biofuels and
sustainable development. |
ENVIRONMENT-MEXICO: So Far from God, So Close to?Venice? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2007 at 12:00:36
| MEXICO CITY, Aug 2 (IPS) - Mexico City, one of the most populous cities in the
world, could become the Venice of Latin America, although without
the "gondolieri" to serenade tourists as they row them
along. |
ENVIRONMENT: UN Skips Gender Perspective in Climate Change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2007 at 06:00:35
| UNITED NATIONS, Aug 2 (IPS) - When the United Nations concluded a two-day debate
Thursday on the potential devastation from climate change, it
covered a lot of territory: deforestation, desertification,
greenhouse gases, renewable energy sources, biofuels and
sustainable development. |
ENERGY-SOUTH AMERICA: Mega Gas Pipeline Plans Held Up (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2007 at 09:01:01
| CARACAS, Aug 2 (IPS) - The South American mega-pipeline project to
transport natural gas from the Caribbean to the River Plate,
supplying a large part of Brazil en route, "has cooled down
because of attacks from within South America itself" and due
to attempts by the United States to delay the plans, complained
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. |
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