Oilwatch in Latin America
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Yasunizing the World (2)
Triplecrisis.com Joan Martinez Alier, Guest Blogger In May 2013, the international press has become alive to the fact thatthere is a lot of unburnable fossil fuels. "Unburnable" carbon hasbecome a buzz word in The Economist and in The New York Times. If theoil, gas...
The Last Time Atmospheric CO2 was at 400 parts per million Humans Didn’t Exist
ScienceBlogs Posted by Peter Gleick on May 10, 2013 The planet has passed a disturbing landmark, a marker on a continuing highway to climate disruption. On May 9th, the NOAA and the Mauna Loa observatory reported that atmospheric CO2 levels touched 400 parts per...
Yasunizing the world?
THE AFRICA REPORT When Svante Arrhenius, a Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate, published the first articles on climate change in 1896, the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere was 300 parts per million (ppm). It is now reaching 400 ppm and rising 2 ppm per...
Brazil qualifies 6 more companies for oil-licensing round
LA PRENSA Brazil's ANP energy regulator has authorized six more companies to participate in an auction of offshore oil and natural gas exploration and production blocks. The six newly qualified companies bring to 44 the number registered to participate in the 11th...
Ecuador auctions off Amazon to Chinese oil firms
THE GUARDIAN Indigenous groups claim they have not consented to oil projects, as politicians visit Beijing to publicise bidding process Ecuador plans to auction off more than three million hectares of pristine Amazonian rainforest to Chinese oil companies, angering...
BRAZIL – Petrobras offshore presalt oil production reaches 300,000 b/d
Offshore RIO DE JANEIRO – Oil production at Petrobras-operated fields in the presalt areas of the Campos and Santos basins has reached the 300,000 b/d mark.This figure accounts for production from 17 wells, six in Santos basin and 11 in Campos basin. Santos accounts...
Ecuador no descarta explotar petróleo en el Parque Yasuní
Bolpress.com En cinco años la Iniciativa Yasuni recaudó 336 millones de dólares, menos del 10% de los 3.600 millones que esperaba Ecuador de la comunidad internacional. El gobierno de Rafael Correa decidirá en junio o julio de este año si explota o no los 800 millones...
La historia de las falsas soluciones climáticas
La Historia del Mercado del Carbono http://storyofcapandtrade.org es una mirada rápida, bien fundamenta, ademas de entretenida, a la principal solución climática que está siendo discutida en Copenhage y en el Capitol Hill. La conductora Annie Leonard presenta a la...
Statement of Climate Justice Now! on the outcomes of COP15
for sign-on by 5 January 2010 Organisations and individuals are invited to endorse the statement visit www.climate-justice-now.org Call for system change not climate change unites global movement Corrupt Copenhagen accord exposes gulf between peoples demands and...
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