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Changing Climate,
Changing Minds

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Q&A: Portugal’s ‘Mayor of the Future’ in Green Energy
Interview with Mayor José Maria Prazeres Pós-de-Mina
MOURA, Portugal - He is mayor of one of Portugal’s smallest and poorest municipalities. But his perseverance in using solar energy to drive development in his region has brought José Maria Prazeres Pós-de-Mina attention from the rest of the country and from other members of the European Union (EU).
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CLIMATE CHANGE-CUBA: Prized Wetland in Danger
By Patricia Grogg*
CIÉNAGA DE ZAPATA, Cuba - If the worst outcomes predicted for climate change in Cuba become reality, a large portion of the Ciénaga de Zapata, the largest and best preserved wetland in the islands of the Caribbean Sea, could disappear by the second half of this century.
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DEVELOPMENT: NGOs Pressure AsDB to Strengthen Safeguards
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
MADRID - Behind-the-scenes lobbying by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) paid off by the end of the annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank (AsDB) concluding here Tuesday. Leading financial officials from a host of European countries came out in favour of the strong "safeguard policies" that activists are championing.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Indians Speak Out Against Carbon Markets
By Haider Rizvi*
UNITED NATIONS - International policymakers are facing fierce criticism from leaders of the world's 370 million indigenous peoples over plans to use carbon markets as one of the tools to mitigate climate change.
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DEVELOPMENT: AsDB Soliciting Private Investments
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
MADRID - When he was not attending seminars at a conference centre in the Spanish capital, the Asian Development Bank’s (AsDB) Seethapathy Chander was trying to broker deals to attract European investors to developing regions of Asia.
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EUROPE: Warnings Against Biofuels Get Louder
By David Cronin
BRUSSELS - European efforts to promote biofuels should be rethought because of the contribution they have made to rising food prices, according to Jeffrey Sachs, a top economic advisor to the United Nations.
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DEVELOPMENT: Food Crisis Rises To Forefront At AsDB Sessions
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
MADRID - Three words -- high food prices -- emerged like a gatecrasher at an event hosted by the Asian Development Bank (AsDB) here that was originally billed as a celebration of the bank’s new vision for poverty eradication in Asia.
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ENVIRONMENT: "Doctor" Nature in Danger
By Stephen Leahy*
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - "When we harm nature, we are harming ourselves," says Aaron Bernstein, a doctor at Harvard Medical School and one of the authors of the upcoming book "Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity".
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Firms Coming Clean on Carbon
By Stephen Leahy
JOHANNESBURG - Thousands of companies supplying some of the world's largest corporations know climate regulations are coming and are agreeing to measure their emissions of climate-altering greenhouse gases.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Displacements Set To Increase
By Tarjei Kidd Olsen
OSLO - Climate change is likely to lead to an increase in conflicts and forced migrations of poor people in the south, a new report warns. Developing countries can reduce this impact by adopting preventative measures now, while international law and human rights principles need to be updated.
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NICARAGUA: A Hard Rain Is Gonna Fall
By José Adán Silva
MANAGUA - Having been hit by three hurricanes and 25 tropical storms in less than 10 years, Nicaragua is looking ahead to the next rainy season, due to begin in May, with wariness and trepidation.
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ENVIRONMENT-US: Poll Finds Deep Concern Among Hispanics
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - Hispanic voters in the United States show a high degree of awareness and concern about environmental issues, particularly global warming, according to an unprecedented national survey on Latino opinion and the environment released here Wednesday by the Sierra Club.
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RIGHTS: Climate a "Life and Death" Issue for Native Peoples
By Haider Rizvi
UNITED NATIONS - Leaders of the world's 370 million indigenous peoples are calling for the United Nations to include their voices in its future talks on climate change.
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DEVELOPMENT: Food for Thought on Earth Day
By Enrique Gili
SAN DIEGO, California - As Earth Day celebrations kicked off around the world last weekend, the event has evolved from teach-ins on park lawns into a multi-day media extravaganza replete with corporate sponsorship.
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ECONOMY: Gov'ts Must Act to Replace Oil, Poll Finds
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - Global public opinion believes that the world is running out of oil and that governments should be doing more to replace it as humanity's main source of energy, according to a major international survey released here Sunday by WorldPublicOpinion.org.
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CLIMATE CHANGE-US: Governors Unite to Cut Emissions
By Adrianne Appel
NEW HAVEN - U.S. state governors say they are fed up with the George W. Bush administration's foot-dragging on climate change and will go ahead -- and around -- the White House to reduce greenhouse gases.
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LATIN AMERICA: Reconciling Oil and the Environment
By Humberto Márquez*
CARACAS - Years of public scrutiny, ever-newer technologies, more government regulations, notions of corporate responsibility and the market-driven need for greater efficiency are all factors behind improvements in the environmental policies of Latin America's petroleum industry.
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EUROPE: Dirty Clean-Up Deal Feared
By David Cronin
BRUSSELS - A favourite cliché of commentators on European Union affairs is to describe France and Germany as the bloc's engine. The cliché has assumed a more literal meaning than usual lately as the two titans have concentrated on finding a solution to a vexed proposal for reducing the contribution to climate change made by the private car.
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ENVIRONMENT: But What Is Good About Biofuels?
By Julio Godoy
BERLIN - The German government decision two weeks back against increased use of biofuels was based on technical reasons -- more than three millions vehicles cannot burn biofuels without risking engine breakdown.
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