• Posted by:
• cmichel
• No Comments

20 September 2011 - Thirteen countries today signed a key protocol to a United Nations treaty promoting a more equitable sharing of the planet's genetic resources and their benefits as the annual UN event aimed at encouraging States to sign, ratify or accede to various global pacts and accords kicked off. Original post: Key UN protocol on biodiversity...

• Posted by:
• hvillegas
• No Comments

Local farmers will have a new sorghum variety resistant to the feared striga weed at the end of this year. Read the original post: Kenya: Local Scientists Develop Weed-Resistant Sorghum

• Posted by:
• cmichel
• No Comments

European Union policy concerning genetically modified organisms is unsatisfactory - where it relates to compliance with basic criteria like public health protection, conservation of the environment, transparency, informed consumer choice and promotion of rural and socioeconomic development View post: GMO policy favours corporations - not the public interest

• Posted by:
• C____
• No Comments

Thanks to growing board-level awareness, more companies than ever are now embedding climate change action plans within their business strategy. Go here to read the rest: Transparent environmental reporting is crucial to future competitiveness

• Posted by:
• cmichel
• No Comments

ScienceDaily (Sep. 19, 2011) - The planet's deep oceans at times may absorb enough heat to flatten the rate of global warming for periods of as long as a decade even in the midst of longer-term warming, according to a new analysis led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Read more from the original source: Deep...

• Posted by:
• cmichel
• No Comments

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 20, 2011 (IPS) - "If this was a meeting about climate change, I am pretty sure that the room would have been more crowded," Luc Gnacadja, executive secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), commented at a press conference Tuesday. Read more here: Drylands Not a Lost Cause, U.N. Summit Declares

• Posted by:
• hvillegas
• No Comments

While grey wolf populations in the northern US still face persecution -- from delisting from the Endangered Species List that is leading to court battles to a cull that could wipe out half of Wyoming's wolf population -- the Mexican grey wolf may be experiencing a glimmer of hope in the south. See the rest here: Mexican Gray...

• Posted by:
• cmichel
• No Comments

A recent report by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) that states that Nigeria is a country that has the world's highest deforestation rate of primary forests is disturbing. Original post: Rescuing our forests .

• Posted by:
• cmichel
• No Comments

Forest bonds could be key to scaling up finance to conserve the world's tropical forests, according to WWF, the Global Canopy Programme (GCP) and the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI). Read this article: Private sector bonds key to forests and climate

• Posted by:
• cmichel
• No Comments

Global warming does funny things to people and institutions - just look at what happened to the Nobel-Peace-Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). See the original post: Atlas's reputation melts faster than Greenland ice