Jeremy Hance, mongabay.com
August 5, 2008
The major drivers of tropical deforestation have changed in recent decades. According to a forthcoming article, deforestation has shifted from poverty-driven subsistence farming to major corporations razing forests for large-scale projects in mining, logging, oil and gas development, and agriculture. While this change makes many scientists and conservationists uneasy, it may [...]
posted at climateandcapitalism.com
Excerpts from the new constitution, approved July 7, 2008
Chapter: Rights for Nature
Art. 1. Nature or Pachamama, where life is reproduced and exists, has the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions and its processes in evolution.
Every person, people, community or nationality, will be able to demand the recognitions [...]
By Jeanette Wiemers, ClimateChangeCorp
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development has released a new framework to help businesses track their environmental impact, in the form of a 4-step method and spreadsheet-based guide that lets companies measure both direct and indirect impacts by entering data. The Measuring Impact Framework is designed for any business or industry, [...]
Author: Jeanette Wiemers, ClimateChangeCorp
GE announced last week that it will enter into an $8 billion partnership with Mubadala Development Company of Abu Dhabi, partly in support of the United Arab Emirates’ project to develop a carbon-neutral city. Masdar City will be home to a clean energy technology center–established by both companies–that will research sustainable environmental technologies [...]
By Jeanette Wiemers, ClimateChangeCorp
Coca-Cola Enterprises announced its sustainability goals–including reducing carbon emissions from manufacturing to 5% below 2004 levels by 2015, and ultimately recycling the equivalent of 100% of its packaging–in its recently-released 2007 Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Report. Coke says it will be recycling or recovering over 90% of materials at its production facilities [...]
LONDON (Reuters) – The world needs leaders with the vision to forge New Deal-type policies to tackle the potentially disastrous combination of climate change, high inflation and economic slowdown, a British think-tank said on Monday.
“A New Green Deal”, a report issued by the New Economics Foundation, uses the convergence of the credit crunch, climate change [...]
