Archivo etiqueta «Medio ambiente»
Por Graça Machel, presidente del Consejo de la asociación Awepa, Wangari Maathai, premio Nobel de la Paz en 2004, y Mary Robinson, ex presidente de Irlanda (LA VANGUARDIA, 10/12/09):
En toda África va creciendo la preocupación, que nosotras tres compartimos, de que el continente está quedando marginado de los debates más importantes en la cumbre sobre cambio climático de Copenhague. Mientras la atención se ha centrado en el impacto de la mitigación del cambio climático en los países desarrollados, las necesidades urgentes de adaptación de los países más pobres del mundo frente a una posible catástrofe han … Seguir leyendo
By Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican nominee for vice president and governor of Alaska from 2006 to 2009 (THE WASHINGTON POST, 09/12/09):
With the publication of damaging e-mails from a climate research center in Britain, the radical environmental movement appears to face a tipping point. The revelation of appalling actions by so-called climate change experts allows the American public to finally understand the concerns so many of us have articulated on this issue.
“Climate-gate,” as the e-mails and other documents from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia have become known, exposes a highly politicized scientific … Seguir leyendo
By Astrid Scholz, the vice president of knowledge systems at Ecotrust in Portland, Ore; Ulf Sonesson, a researcher at the Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology and Peter Tyedmers, a professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 09/12/09):
Go local. Eat organic. Buy fresh. Those food mantras continue to make waves among environmentally conscious consumers. But — as is often the case in these climate-conscious times — if the motivation is to truly make our diets more earth-friendly, then perhaps we need a new mantra: Buy frozen.
Several years ago, the three … Seguir leyendo
Par Tegegnework Gettu, directeur du bureau régional pour l’Afrique du programme des Nations unies pour le développement (LE MONDE, 09/12/09):
Depuis 2008, les pays d’Afrique intensifient leurs efforts visant à former une coalition pour les négociations en cours sur le changement climatique. A Copenhague, en ce moment même, ils s’efforcent de faire valoir leur point de vue, leurs préoccupations et leurs attentes.
L’Afrique est très vulnérable. Les bouleversements climatiques compromettent les conditions de vie des populations sur un continent déjà victime de la pauvreté, de la dégradation des écosystèmes et des troubles civils et sociaux. Plus de 40 % … Seguir leyendo
Par Pierre-Yves Geoffard, chercheur au CNRS et professeur à l’Ecole d’économie de Paris (LIBERATION, 08/12/09):
S’il est au moins un point partagé par l’ensemble des participants à la conférence de Copenhague, c’est qu’il reste peu de doute et peu de temps : le réchauffement climatique est bien dû à l’activité humaine, et des actions urgentes sont nécessaires pour réduire radicalement les émissions de CO2. Après des années de déni, même les Etats-Unis se sont rangés à ce constat désormais unanime. Copenhague sera donc, de ce point de vue, un moment unique dans l’histoire humaine : celui où toutes les … Seguir leyendo
By Andrew Watson, Royal Society Research Professor at the University of East Anglia (THE TIMES, 08/12/09):
We non-media-savvy scientists at the University of East Anglia have learnt a hard lesson this week — the truth is not enough in the face of a media-savvy enemy.
Character assassination is a purely diversionary tactic, but in the hacked e-mails affair it has been spectacularly successful.
How many of us would emerge unscathed if all our private e-mails over 20 years were opened by someone determined to prove that we were up to no good? The hackers have picked choice phrases out … Seguir leyendo
Par Jean-Marie Martin-Amouroux, ancien directeur de recherche au CNRS et ancien directeur de l’Institut d’économie et de politique de l’énergie, CNRS-université de Grenoble (LE MONDE, 07/12/09):
Pour que Copenhague ne soit pas un échec collectif, l’Union européenne doit, par des engagements ambitieux et crédibles, entraîner les économies émergentes et le reste des pays du Sud dans un cercle vertueux. Nombre de lecteurs du Monde, soucieux des dangers que le changement climatique fait courir à notre planète, ont sans doute adhéré à ce plaidoyer que quatre députés d’Europe Ecologie ont publié le 21 novembre 2009. Certains l’auraient cependant jugé … Seguir leyendo
By Colin Horgan, a Vancouver-based freelance writer (THE GUARDIAN, 07/12/09):
When George Monbiot wrote his searing judgment of Canada‘s recent descent into what he claimed is a “petro-state,” he was talking about Canada’s global reputation. But what he was actually addressing is a long history of domestic inter-governmental and inter-regional strife, currently embodied by Stephen Harper, Canada’s prime minister. Monbiot’s article left many Canadian heads spinning: how did we get to this point?
Highway 22 in southern Alberta skirts along the barrier between flat prairie to the east and rolling foothills that quickly give way to the … Seguir leyendo
By Gordon Brown, prime minister of the United Kingdom (THE GUARDIAN, 07/12/09):
Throughout history human progress has arisen from the dream of achieving far-reaching change even when people have said it was beyond our grasp, and from the struggle to overcome obstacles even when they seem insurmountable.
Today we face a global challenge whose solution, for decades until now, has appeared beyond our reach – impossible, unaffordable and unworkable.
But catastrophic climate change is no more a matter of untameable fate than slavery, women’s oppression, mass unemployment or nuclear war. And over the next two weeks we have the chance … Seguir leyendo
By James Hansen, the author of the forthcoming Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 07/12/09):
At the international climate talks in Copenhagen, President Obama is expected to announce that the United States wants to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to about 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050. But at the heart of his plan is cap and trade, a market-based approach that has been widely praised but does little to slow global warming or reduce our dependence … Seguir leyendo
Por Naomi Klein, columnista de The Nation y The Guardian. Autora de La doctrina del shock. El auge del capitalismo del desastre. Traducción: JoséMaría Puig de la Bellacasa (LA VANGUARDIA, 02/12/09):
El otro día recibí un ejemplar del avance del libro The battle of the story of the battle of Seattle (la batalla de la historia de la batalla de Seattle), de David Solnit y Rebecca Solnit.
Su publicación coincidirá con el décimo aniversario de la histórica coalición de activistas que hizo fracasar la ronda de la cumbre de la Organización Mundial del Comercio en Seattle, chispa que … Seguir leyendo
THE NEW YORK TIMES, 29/11/09:
President Obama and other world leaders will gather in Copenhagen next week to discuss climate change. Though this is a global issue, it’s also a profoundly local one. For this reason, the Op-Ed editors asked writers from four different continents to report on the climate changes they’ve experienced close to home. Here are their dispatches.
1.- Denmark in the Wind. By Hanne-Vibeke Holst, a novelist.
In Copenhagen, the once moderate-to-fresh winds are now more often storms.
2.- South Africa’s Fire Kingdom. By Zakes Mda, a playwright.
In Cape Town, a rise … Seguir leyendo
By Hanne-Vibeke Holst, a novelist. This essay was translated by Martin Aitken from the Danish (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 29/11/09):
My husband wants a wind turbine for Christmas. Just a small one, to be erected alongside our summer cabin at the coast. “We could have it out back!” he said. Good idea, I admit. In Denmark, we get our share of moderate-to-fresh winds, as the weather guys say. More often, it seems, we have storms. In the city we don’t notice them that much, but at the cabin we listen uneasily to the howling of the wind in the … Seguir leyendo
By Zakes Mda, a playwright and the author of the novels Cion and Black Diamond (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 29/11/09):
Not long ago, in Cape Town, I watched smoke billow from the hills facing the city. The flames were so ferocious that within a half-hour the smoke could be mistaken for rain clouds. Sirens wailed and in no time helicopters were hovering in the sky, dousing the flames with some pink substance.
At Greenmarket Square in the center of the city, an old man exclaimed: “They are very quick to put out the fire when the mountain is burning, … Seguir leyendo
By Edgard Telles Ribeiro, the author of I Would Have Loved Him if I Had Not Killed Him (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 29/11/09):
I had set my umbrella and chair near the water in the early hours of what would soon become a perfect summer day. Like most people, I prefer the beach when it is deserted, and I had the place all to myself, no vendors to be seen, parading their sunglasses and suntan oils; no drinks, sandwiches or sweets offered in singing voices. Above all, no kids kicking balls or sand in my face. I held a … Seguir leyendo