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Back to the future
No commentsBianca Jagger, Chair of the World Future Council, attended the UNFCCC to talk about carbon emissions in 2020. She also spoke on the womens role in climate change issues, and on solar energy as an alternative solution.
»Sound business for North Sumatra
No commentsTechnology transfer is expected to create investment opportunities in Indonesia. At the same time, many industries are expected to earn profits, both from key products and from carbon trading. Indeed, technology transfer will make carbon a potential market for Indonesia. The South-East Asian nation has already begun to build agro-industry based special economic zones (SEZs), particularly in North Sumatra.
»Notes from Bali…
No commentsThere are no easy answers to climate change. This is a fact that has come home to this writer following week one of the United Nations climate change conference being held here in Indonesia. No sooner are proposals made to deal with one aspect or other of the climate change phenomenon, one is forced to critically evaluate it.
»A post-carbon future
No commentsR.B. BHATTACHARJEE, who is covering the Bali Conference on Climate Change, asks Jutta Kill, the climate change campaign coordinator of the UK-based group FERN whether the parties to the treaty are missing the woods for the trees.
»Thai stand on CDM
No commentsThe CDM is one of the three issues Thai delegates are now dealing with as top priorities. But they will pursue only energy projects, rather than forestry-related projects.
»False solutions to climate change get a roasting
No commentsIT is an enduring irony of the UN climate change talks that the most cogent arguments about what needs to be done are aired at the so-called “side events”, while the main session gets mired in politics or supplicating business.
»Biofuel: Not a Real Hero for Climate Change?
No commentsThe Global Forest Coalition opposes biofuel solutions on the grounds that they would result in the loss of homes and habitations for millions of indigenous people, destroy forest biodiversity and result in conflict in many regions across the world.
»Dark side of Bio-fuel
No commentsA massive call for African countries to turn to bio-fuels could lead to more negative impacts than intended results.
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