DAILY NEWS - Beyond Kyoto

Former advisor to British Prime Minister Tony Blair highly critical of U.S. recovery of energy and investment in food production.
In 2008, an increase in production costs of grains and rice, coupled with American policies on foreign trade agreements triggered a hike in food prices.
Before the food crisis, 1.3 billion are estimated to have been living on [...]

The crops currently used for green fuels in Europe are inefficient and contributes to global warming. In Brazil you can fill your car with environmentally friendly ethanol for half the prize of gasoline.

Maize is bad, so is soy. Oil palms are often planted on destroyed rainforest and useful agricultural land, said professor Stephen P. Long, a crop [...]

Everyday people need to be more active in the environmental debate and decision making; this is Aarhus Convention Secretary Jeremy Wates’ message.
The United Nations’ Aarhus Convention presents how the participating countries would like the environmental case to be shaped. The convention calls for citizens to play a bigger role in the environmental debate.
More debate leads [...]

Here are the final recommendations from the Beyond Kyoto conference:

Climate Policy: All sectors of society must be involved in future climate solutions
Biodiversity and Ecosystems: Biodiversity must be an integrated part of the general mitigation and adaptation effort
Agriculture and Climate Change: We must increase agricultural productivity to use less water and land
Nanotechnology Solutions: Nanotechnology will lead [...]

India needs adequate climate change policies to face the environmental challenges ahead

Half of the country suffering from drought; ripe conditions for cholera and malaria; dramatic increase in rural unemployment; unknown effects on human body systems.
India is one of the most threatened and least prepared, when it comes the effects of climate change.
K. Shadananan Nair, senior scientist [...]

Among experts there is no doubt, that in the future there will be a lack of water in Africa due to the climate change. Women play a big role in the farming world of Africa. And they are the ones who can save Africa from the worst effects of climate change.
The climate change has already [...]

Our dependance on fastfood contributes massively to global warming. So much so that according to Professor Jørgen E Olesen, professor at Århus University and one of Denmarks leading authority’s on agriculture and global warming, we should eat vegetarian Big Macs to reduce CO2 emissions.
Jørgen Olesen’s wish for our future eating habits can be summed up in two [...]

Under 100 years from now Latin America is going to experience significant climate changes. Already now the changes are visible, as glaciers are melting
“Why are the mountains crying?’ This was the question that met Dorte Verner, a senior economist in the World Bank, when she visited communities in the Andes mountains in Latin America.
“That shows that the [...]

New movement in agriculture can save farmers from poverty and reduce global warming.
”Developing countries are the culprit and the solution to global warming”, said Shivaji Pandey, crop expert and member of UN’s agricultural organisation FAO’s panel of  experts, at the “Beyond Kyoto ” conference on Thursday.
New tools for better farming
At the conference in Aarhus, Shivaji [...]

Making a business out of organic produce is becoming more profitable in Denmark
The economic crisis was realized globally by October 2008, but even after that time organic sales in Denmark continued to rise, according to the Danish Organic Trade Association. Further reports show sales for Danish organic products rose between 20 and 30 percent in [...]

The Danish Tax Commission recently came out with recommendations for taxing greenhouse emissions,  including one that cattle farmers get taxed for their cows burps and flatulence. “It will have a huge impact on the dairy industry,” Leif Nielsen, Chief Economist for the Danish Dairy Board, said.
The tax was suggested as an economic tax, highlighting the Commission’s [...]

The theme will discuss the consequences of climatic change for agriculture industries and forestry. Agriculture and global warming have an almost symbiotic relationships as agriculture is both a potential victim and a major contributor to climate change. The negative consequnces include shifts in temperature, precipitation and glacial run-off. At the same time, agriculture releases greenhouse [...]

Name – University – Country
Alex (Alexander) Skorochid      – –      Ryerson (CA)      – –      Canada
Andrew King      – –      Concordia (ca) University      – –      Canada
Anne Shifley      – –      Missouri       – –      USA
Anne-Meike van den Berg      – –      Utrecht      – –     [...]

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But journalism is about people.
So what we actually do – is writing about people!