Poor face more hunger as climate change leads to crop failure, says Oxfam
Poor face more hunger as climate change leads to crop failure, says Oxfam . Seasons appear to have shrunk in variety, and storms and heavier rains more common.
OK, Binyamin Netan-yahu said the magic words "Palestinian state," now what? ...Where do we go from here? How do those words become transformed into reality? Let's try to imagine.
Carter nevertheless stressed that the differences between US President Barack Obama and Netanyahu could be overcome.
The Wall Street Journal on Friday reported on a U.S. Geological Survey report [PDF] suggesting that economically extractable coal reserves in the United States, typically measured at some 240 years' worth, could be substantially less abundant than previously thought - perhaps only half the estimated reserves.
At the opposite side of the carbon cycle, the United Nations Environment Programme released an interesting report [PDF] on the potential of the world's forests, farmland, and peatland to soak up atmospheric carbon.
US President Barack Obama's Cairo speech and subsequent remarks by him and other senior US officials have made it clear beyond any doubt that the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is two states for two peoples.
Todd Stern, the US climate change envoy, said a deal between the two countries – the world's largest polluters – would boost efforts to secure a crucial accord to avoid dangerous climate change. Those UN talks are just six months away.
There is no solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict other than "two states for two peoples." Any other proposal guarantees the continuation of the conflict and the end of the Zionist enterprise, the State of Israel.
Barack Obama is often compared to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but it is from the book of another Roosevelt that he has taken a leaf: President Theodore Roosevelt, who, 108 years ago, advised his successors: “Speak softly and carry a big stick!”
In a passionate speech to the physics, chemistry, peace and literature laureates, Charles appealed to decision-makers to put a monetary value on forests and to act fast.
Gossip in the climate conference corridors is where all the action is - until we sign on the dotted line . Bryony Worthington suggests that so much is going on in the climate world at the moment that it's proving hard to keep up. She continues, "Which is why conferences like Carbon Expo in Barcelona can be so useful. You can short-cut many hours of reading with a few key conversations with experts and, like any good trade conference, you catch up on the gossip. But when the trade in question is emissions trading, and the gossip is focused on what the world is likely to agree to try to avert catastrophic climate change. It certainly makes for diverting corridor chit chat."
Global business poised to push governments on climate deal, says Oxfam. Global business leaders could make a significant contribution toward a fair and safe deal to tackle climate change when they meet at an international summit in Copenhagen beginning May 24.
Obama has made clear that whether a two-state solution is acceptable to a Likud government or not, that is the only formula up for negotiation.
From a speech given at the Carnegie Endowment For International Peace on April 1st.
If Israel seeks peace, it must not demand that the Palestinians recognize its Jewish character...
