Posted on October 31st, 2008 by Green Assembly
SINGAPORE – Thirty-one food, cosmetic and consumer goods companies – and one palm-oil supplier – have signed a Rainforest Action Network (Ran) pledge to support a moratorium on the expansion of palm-oil plantations into tropical forests.
But many others, including major international corporations such as Cadbury, Campbell Soup, Chanel, Elizabeth Arden, Hershey, Kellogg’s, Kraft, L’Oreal, [...]
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Posted on October 30th, 2008 by Green Assembly
SINGAPORE ~ Greenpeace has re-iterated its call for urgent action to protect forests in order to save the global climate after gathering new evidence of the mounting threat to forests in the provinces of Papua and Riau (Indonesia).
Greenpeace is urging the government of Indonesia in Jakarta to appreciate and to provide immediate legal support to [...]
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Posted on October 29th, 2008 by Green Assembly
PARIS ~ A former slave who took the government of Niger to court for failing to enforce its own anti-slavery laws has set a precedent that could see similar cases being brought to court by climate-change activists.
Hadijatou Mani, 24, won her case on Monday in what campaigners said was an historic judgement that was reported by [...]
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Posted on October 28th, 2008 by Green Assembly
THE more we learn about climate change the clearer it becomes that CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions are the single most important factor influencing global warming.
It doesn’t really matter which country the CO2 is released from, it all finds its way into the upper atmosphere.
Many human activities release CO2 into the atmosphere - transport, cement production, [...]
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Posted on October 27th, 2008 by Green Assembly
SINGAPORE ~ Nearly 90 percent of young people across the globe think world leaders should do “whatever it takes” to tackle climate change. This is among the top findings of a poll conducted on behalf of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and released yesterday.
The poll of 12- to 18-year-olds in five countries - Brazil, [...]
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Posted on October 24th, 2008 by Green Assembly
“MORE than ten thousand people go dancing in this city every weekend,” Stef van Dongen told reporters at Club Watt in Rotterdam recently, “and they care about the environment as much as anyone else.”
“An average nightclub, “he explained, ” uses mains electricity at a rate 150 times higher than an average household, but it doesn’t [...]
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Posted on October 23rd, 2008 by Green Assembly
SINGAPORE ~ A Stanford University professor by the name of Brent Constantz says he has invented a “green cement” that could eliminate the huge amounts of CO2 spewed into the atmosphere by today’s cement manufacturers.
His vision of eliminating a large source of the world’s greenhouse gases has gained traction with investors, including venture capitalist Vinod [...]
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Posted on October 22nd, 2008 by Green Assembly
BANGKOK ~ Because of their compact form and the economies of scale, cities can reduce energy consumption and make a significant difference to climate change, says a United Nations (UN) report published today.
The report, entitled State of the World’s Cities 2008, includes an extensive focus on energy consumption in cities worldwide and says that well-planned [...]
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Posted on October 21st, 2008 by Green Assembly
BANGKOK ~ The unregulated development of oil and gas fields in Burma (Myanmar) is creating a potential environmental disaster that will have a major impact on global warming and climate change, a study released today revealed.
“Blocking Freedom”, a damning new report by environmental and human rights group Arakan Oil Watch said Chinese companies will soon [...]
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Posted on October 20th, 2008 by Green Assembly
BANGKOK ~ Ten popular US bottled water brands contain mixtures of 38 different pollutants, including bacteria, fertilizer, Tylenol and industrial chemicals, some at levels no better than tap water, according to laboratory tests recently conducted by the highly respected Environmental Working Group (EWG).
Overall, the test results strongly indicate that the purity of bottled water [...]
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