World-News

Über 200 Klimaforscher haben eine Erklärung unterzeichnet, in der sie Regierungen drängen, eine einschneidende Reduktion der Treibhausgas-Emissionen zu beschließen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/100194

The Associated Press' Seth Borenstein reports, "For the first time, more than 200 of the world's leading climate scientists, losing their patience, urged government leaders to take radical action to slow global warming because 'there is no time to lose.'"

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/120607EB.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Seth+Borenstein

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1691459,00.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock

Glenn Hurowitz, Grist, reports; "Indonesia is the world's third-largest global warming polluter, behind the United States and China, and just ahead of Brazil. But in Indonesia, like Brazil and the rest of the tropical world, pollution isn't coming from factories, power plants, or cars like it is in the industrialized world. Instead, almost all of it is coming from the rapid burning of the world's vast tropical forests to make room for timber, agriculture, and especially palm oil plantations. (Despite its green reputation, palm oil is anything but: a recent study in Science found that palm oil, like other biofuels, produces two to nine times more greenhouse gases than regular old crude oil because of the forests and grasslands destroyed for its production.)"

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/120507EA.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=tropical+forests
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=timber
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=palm+oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=biofuels
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Hurowitz

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Toll_Of_Climate_Change_On_World_Food_Supply_Could_Be_Worse_Than_Thought_999.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock

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World Faces Food Shortages
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/04/5597/

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2994650.ece


Informant: Teresa Binstock

Stephen Leahy, Inter Press Service, reports: "Expanding European forests absorbed 126 million tons of carbon dioxide from 1990 to 2005 - equivalent to 11 percent of European Union emissions from human activities - while a UN target to plant one billion trees mainly in Africa has been surpassed."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/120307EA.shtml

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Plant trees, lots of them, you can never plant enough!
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3515163/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Leahy

http://globalnation.inquirer.net/cebudailynews/news/view_article.php?article_id=104535


Informant: Teresa Binstock