Tinus de Jager reports from COP 17 in Durban at the start of the high-level meetings on combatting climate change.

By Stephen Leahy

DURBAN, South Africa, Dec6 – The United States has become the major stumbling block to progress at the mid point of negotiations over a new international climate regime say civil society and many of the 193 nations attending the United Nations climate change conference here in Durban.

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By Kristin Palitza

DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 5 (IPS) – Emerging economies China, South Africa and Brazil have indicated their openness to legally-binding carbon emission reduction targets from 2020 during the United Nations climate change summit in Durban, South Africa.

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Em Durban, crianças apoiam os esforços para a redução de emissões de carbono. Crédito: Zukiswa Zimela/IPS

Stephen Leahy

Durban, África do Sul, 5/12/2011, (IPS) – A sociedade civil alertou em Durban sobre o perigo de se transformar terras africanas destinadas à produção de alimentos em cultivos com vistas a comercializar créditos de carbono. Continue Reading

Kristin Palitza

Durban, África do Sul, 5/12/2011 , (IPS) – Com ruidosos cantos, milhares de pessoas se reuniram no dia 3 nesta cidade e seguiram em direção à sede da cúpula das Nações Unidas sobre mudança climática para pedir “uma imediata e drástica” redução de emissões de carbono destinada a salvar o planeta. Continue Reading

Busani Bafana interviews to KANAYO F. NWANZE, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 4 (IPS) – The combined effects of ballooning populations, poor productivity and threatened water resources present fresh pressures on agriculture to deliver food, money and livelihoods in Africa.

The food system needs urgent reform in the face of climate change which accelerating the speed of change on the farms and on the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.

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By Kristin Palitza
DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 3 (IPS) – Chanting loudly, thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets to the venue of the 17th United Nations Climate Change Summit to demand that their voices be heard for “immediate and drastic” carbon emission reductions to save the planet.

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By Stephen Leahy

DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 3 (IPS) – The world’s oceans are becoming hot, sour and breathless – threatening a vital source of food for a billion people mainly in the developing world experts warned today at a special Oceans Day event at the UN climate negotiation.

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By Joshua Kyalimpa

DURBAN, South Africa, 2 Dec (IPS) – Civil society organisations are urging Africa to remain steadfast in its demands for a commitment to the Kyoto Protocol and not to be bulldozed into a new agreement.

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Niños apoyan en Durban los esfuerzos para la reducción de emisiones de carbono. Crédito: Zukiswa Zimela/IPS

Por Stephen Leahy

DURBAN, Sudáfrica, 2 dic (IPS)  La sociedad civil alertó en Durban sobre el peligro de convertir tierras africanas destinadas a la producción de alimentos en cultivos con vistas a comerciar créditos de carbono.

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