Markets rise and markets fall, but the environment is in a terminal slump. Financial turmoil will pass - it's the planet we must focus on.
… Financial Crises Turmoil Planet Environment Climate Change Carbon Dioxide Climate Change Society Greenbacks_MAIN.jpg … extinction events of the geologic past. The climate is destabilised, the oceans are dying, …
Who said these words: ‘The environmental movement is a growing force in civil society, searching for a home in mainstream politics. The party that succeeds will be the natural party of government’? It wasn’t George Monbiot, Tony Juniper or Jonathon Porritt. It was David Miliband, in December 2006.
… These covered domestic and international climate change, of course, but also important … behind: for its leadership on international climate change Labour got one green light; the … the leadership they showed campaigning for a Climate Change Bill. After all, where is the …
This month a construction consortium will start pouring millions of tons of rock and cement into the Venice Lagoon – one of the Mediterranean’s most important wetlands. The consortium claims the dam project will ‘save’ the city from flooding. But the project failed its environmental impact assessment, threatens the ecology of the lagoon and – with global warming and rising sea-levels –may not even protect Venice anyway. Tony Zamparutti reports from Italy.
… Global Warming Sea-levels Sea Levels Dams Climate Change Archive_9.jpg This month a … within a few decades. Renowned Venetian climate change scientist Paolo Antonio … report, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change gives as its most likely …
Opinionated and outspoken, often wildly at odds with the government’s line, the UK’s environment minister Michael Meacher is, by his own reckoning, a lone voice in the wilderness.
… Minister UK Politic Nuclear Biotechnology UK Climate Change investigates.jpg Opinionated … as Minister of State for the Environment: Climate change Horizontal and international …
Today, while hunger stunts the lives of hundreds of millions of people, grassroots movements in Kenya and Brazil are winning the war on want. Frances Moore Lappé investigates