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COMMENTARY:
The business of climate change
by Darryl díMonte
This commentary on the recent agreement by six countries (India, China, the United States, Australia, Japan and South Korea) to co-operate in a pact to combat climate change - outside the Kyoto Protocol - is by Darryl díMonte, founder President of the International Federation of Environmental Journalists. ... more
Ice is melting everywhere
Recent research by the British Antarctic Survey has found that 87 per cent of the Antarctic glaciers are shrinking as the climate warms (see ). But says Danielle Massey of the Earth Policy Institute, this is only one aspect of a global meltdown, with uncertain consequences, This is her report. ... more
COMMENTARY
Seizing the Kyoto opportunity
by Christopher Flavin & Janet Sawin
The Kyoto Protocol, which comes into force today, offers the world a fresh start on an issue marked by international divisiveness for the last 15 years. Attention now turns to the crucial next steps: meeting the Kyoto targets and forging a new agreement to cover the period beyond 2012. ... more
Africa braces for the fallout of global warming
by Emmanuel Koro
Africa is expected to be one of the continents hardest hit by global warming. New reports find that key ecosystems in Southern Africa are already facing hotter, drier weather, as Emmanuel Koro reports. ... more
COMMENT: Will industry hijack EU climate policy?
by Jennifer Morgan
When it comes to tackling climate change, the lines seem to be clear. The European Union (EU) is with the good guys - countries that have signed the Kyoto Protocol and are seriously looking at how to reduce CO2 emissions. Right? Well, maybe not, says Jennifer Morgan. ... more
COMMENTARY:
Russia's climate card
by Jonathan Lash
In January this year Jonathan Lash, President of the World Resources Institute, moderated a panel at the World Economic Forum, in Davos, to discuss the provocative proposition: "Global Climate Change: Mother Nature's Weapon of Mass Destruction?" The discussion was full of surprises, not least for the views of the eminent Russian delegate, as Jonathan Lash explains. ... more
Global temperatures hit record highs
by Lester R. Brown
Temperature data from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies for 2003 indicates that it was the third warmest year on record. The temperature averaged 14.62 degrees Celsius (58.3 degrees Fahrenheit) over the year, down slightly from the record high of 14.71 in 1998 and second-place-2002 at 14.70 degrees, but well above the average temperature of 14 degrees Celsius that prevailed from 1951 to 1980. ... more
Small islands seek salvation in wake of Cyclone Heta
Earlier this month (January 2004) a cyclone devastated the tiny Pacific island of Niue, and its population of 1,700 souls. It lent fresh urgency to the meeting of small island states which has opened in Nassau, Bahamas, to discuss ways of combatting the effects on them of global warming, including storms, droughts and the submergence of their lands beneath rising seas. ... more
Glaciers and sea ice speed the big melt
by Janet Larsen
By 2020, the snows of Kilimanjaro may exist only in old photographs. The glaciers in Montana's Glacier National Park could disappear by 2030. And by mid-century, the Arctic Sea may be completely ice-free during summertime. As the earth's temperature has risen in recent decades, the earth's ice cover has begun to melt. And that melting is accelerating. ... more
COMMENTARY
Hot air at climate talks
by Sunita Narain
The Ninth Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change brought over 5,000 people to Milan from 180 nations, in December 2003. They included 2,300 non-governmental organisations and some 500 press and TV journalists. But, says Sunita Narain, from the Centre for Science and Environment in Delhi, it was a frustating exercise. ... more
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