je.st

Home › nations

Tag: nations

Euro bank defends pledge to buy stressed nations' debt

2014-10-15 12:48:51| Trucking - Topix.net

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi helped save the euro with his pledge to do "whatever it takes" as lenders prepared for a collapse of the 18-nation currency, a central bank lawyer said Tuesday at a hearing. Subscribers must LOG-IN to read this full story.

Tags: buy euro bank debt

Island nations shouldn't be left to drown from climate change

2014-10-14 01:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Islanders from the Tulun Atoll where forced relocation is presently underway are reporting what some believe is the beginning of the end. Breadfruit trees have been destroyed, the soil isnt good enough to grow crops. The sea water is eating away at the land. Tulun Atoll is not alone. Across the Pacific islanders are reporting similar changes as the sea is creeping up. Given that sea level rise is not uniform across the world (forget the bathtub that fills evenly!) its not surprising that in...

Tags: change left island nations

Poor nations urged to leapfrog harmful HFC refrigerants

2014-10-13 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

SciDevNet: Efforts to rid the world of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a group of powerful greenhouse gases mainly used as refrigerants, may depend on developing nations being able to leapfrog these chemicals to less harmful alternatives, an environmental group has warned. HFCs were introduced following the 1989 Montreal Protocol as a replacement for chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which deplete the ozone layer, part of the atmosphere that helps to absorb harmful ultraviolet radiation from the sun. But while HFCs...

Tags: poor nations urged harmful

Impoverished Nations To Suffer More As Climate Change Worsens

2014-10-10 00:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

De Smog Blog: For most Western societies, climate change has largely been an out of sight, out of mind issue. Even the disasters that we have seen in America more extreme droughts, floods, hurricanes, etc. have not been enough to spark meaningful action from the government. But for people in developing parts of the world, the effects of climate change are not only real, but they are severely impeding their way of life right now. A new report by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) says that those...

Tags: change nations climate suffer