World-News

http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_5970723


Informant: binstock

A novel proposal by Ecuador is testing world leaders' commitment to fight global warming and preserve the biodiversity of the Earth.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/052307EC.shtml

Human activities are wiping out three animal or plant species every hour. "Biodiversity is being lost at an unprecedented rate," UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement. Global warming is adding to threats such as land clearance for farms or cities, pollution and rising human populations.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/052307EA.shtml

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UN URGES WORLD TO SLOW EXTINCTIONS
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/42067/story.htm


Informant: NHNE

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/22/1379/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=carbon+emissions

The Netherlands is marking the 75th anniversary of one of the world's civil engineering wonders, the Zuiderzee closure dam, while nervously watching to see how climate change threatens its famed sea defenses.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/052207ED.shtml

Global emissions of carbon dioxide are growing at a faster clip than the highest rates used in recent key UN reports. Emissions of CO2 from cars, factories and power plants grew at an annual rate of 1.1 percent during the 1990s, according to the Global Carbon Project, but from 2000 to 2004, CO2 emission rates almost tripled to 3 percent a year.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/052207EA.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=emissions+of+carbon+dioxide

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2085044,00.html


Informant: binstock

A climate compatible society is realistic and practicable, this is the result of the today finished Annual Conference of the Climate Alliance of European Cities in Zurich.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681527ms46

UnternehmensGrün, der Bundesverband der Grünen Wirtschaft, fordert von Politik und Unternehmen rasche, umfassende und wirksame Schritte zur Bewältigung des Klimawandels.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681516ms46



Nachhaltige Energiequellen reichen für den weltweiten Energiehunger

Der WWF hat soeben in der Schweiz seine Vision für die Energieversorgung der Zukunft vorgestellt.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681521ms46



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Klimaschutz

Konflikte, Bauprojekte und Klimaerwärmung werden nach einem Bericht der Hilfsorganisation Christian Aid die Zahl der Vertriebenen vor allem in der Dritten Welt, die bislang kaum Hilfe erhalten, drastisch erhöhen. Ein Bericht von Florian Rötzer.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681503ms46