By Thalif Deen

UNITED NATIONS, June 11 (IPS/TerraViva) – The headline in a New York newspaper last March captured the essence of a future potential threat to political stability the world over: “U.S. Report Sees Tensions Over Water.” Continue Reading

By Claudia Ciobanu

WARSAW, June 11, 2012 (TerraViva) European farming is based on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the EU, whose main logic, to produce increasingly more food largely through industrial farming, needs reassessment. Continue Reading

By Helen Clark*

UNITED NATIONS, June 8, 2012 (IPS) – The world’s population today is healthier, wealthier, and better educated than ever before. Yet, despite incredible progress, disconcerting realities stubbornly persist. Continue Reading

Por Helen Clark *

NACIONES UNIDAS, jun (IPS) – La población mundial es hoy más sana, más rica y mejor educada que nunca antes. Pero con estos avances increíbles aún conviven realidades desconcertantes. Continue Reading

Por Stephen Leahy

UXBRIDGE, Canadá, jun (IPS) – El Ártico alcanzó una concentración récord de dióxido de carbono de 400 partes por millón (ppm). La última vez que la Tierra registró niveles similares fue hace tres millones de años, durante la era del Plioceno. Continue Reading

Por Fabíola Ortiz

RÍO DE JANEIRO,  jun (IPS) – En vísperas de acoger la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible, Rio+20, que discutirá el rumbo de la economía verde, esta ciudad brasileña pone fin a uno de sus mayores crímenes ambientales: el gigantesco basurero de Gramacho, en la Bahía de Guanabara. Continue Reading

Por Thalif Deen

NACIONES UNIDAS, 4 jun (IPS) – Mientras los líderes de la comunidad internacional se preparan para la cumbre Río+20 este mes, la ONU parece decidida a practicar lo que predica: mejorar su eficiencia y reducir drásticamente sus emisiones de gases invernadero. Continue Reading

Sabina Zaccaro interviews CORRADO CLINI, Italian Minister of Environment

ROME, Jun 7, 2012 (IPS) – While governments make a last desperate attempt to agree on a plan of action for next week’s Rio+20 summit on sustainable development – including plans on the transition to a green economy and a set of sustainable development goals – the real economy is already turning green, according to Italy’s minister of environment, Corrado Clini.

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By Isabella De Grave

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 7, 2012 (IPS) – Irreversible environmental damage threatens to destabilise the world’s life-support systems unless urgent action is taken, according to the latest Global Environment Report (GEO-5) which looks to the Rio+20 summit as a crucial opportunity to halt this decline.

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By Carey L. Biron

To deal with looming food crises in the coming decades, Africa needs a Green Revolution on par with what took place in Asia during the 1960s and 1970s, according to experts in Washington.

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