World-News

Global food prices were under further pressure on Monday as benchmark prices for cereals at much higher levels came into operation, making it almost inevitable that a second wave of food price inflation will hit the world's leading economies.

http://snipurl.com/1vfen



Triple-digit oil prices expected after 2007 records

After a record-smashing year with oil peaking at $99 a barrel in 2007, a triple-digit world of crude oil awaits in the coming year, energy experts say.

http://snipurl.com/1vfep


From Information Clearing House

Lasten, Chancen oder beides durch Klimaschutz?
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26846/1.html



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

By Patrick Cockburn
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18871.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+Cockburn

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/06/5656/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+prices

http://www.energybulletin.net/38091.html


Informant: Scott Munson

Die Energie- und Klimawochenschau: In Bali verhandeln die Regierungen über den Klimaschutz, während im Saarland Bürger die Sache in die eigenen Hände nehmen und ein RWE-Kohlekraftwerk per Referendum ablehnen. Derweil will Schweden Windräder bauen und US-Wissenschaftler empfehlen die Verknüpfung von Windparks, damit diese zur Grundlast beitragen können.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26755/1.html



Globaler Klimaschutz - was geht auf Bali?

Der Geschäftsführer des Bundes für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND) berichtet für Telepolis vom Weltklimagipfel

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26751/1.html



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

By Kofi Annan

Do we still have universal values? The values of peace, freedom, social progress, equal rights and human dignity, enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, are no less valid today than when, over half a century ago, those documents were drafted by representatives of many different nations and cultures.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682686ms76

US-Wissenschaftler weisen auf ein ethisches Dilemma der reichen Industrieländer hin, die am meisten Treibhausgas-Emissionen verursachen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/98668



Öko-Kriege

Wie nach den Menschenrechten nun Umweltschutz als Vorwand für Militarisierung herangezogen wird.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26585/1.html



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

The Guardian UK's George Monbiot says, "Even the International Monetary Fund, always ready to immolate the poor on the altar of business, now warns that using food to produce biofuels "might further strain already tight supplies of arable land and water all over the world, thereby pushing food prices up even further." This week, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization will announce the lowest global food reserves in 25 years, threatening what it calls "a very serious crisis." Even when the price of food was low, 850 million people went hungry because they could not afford to buy it. With every increment in the price of flour or grain, several million more are pushed below the breadline."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/110607EC.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=biofuels
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=starvation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Monbiot