John Vidal writes for The Guardian NGOs apologise for smashing Saudi nameplate and stuffing it down toilet in protest over ‘blocking tactics’ at Bonn climate talks Oxfam and WWF International, two of the world’s largest and most conservative western climate change campaigning groups, have been forced to apologise profusely after an investigation found them guilty [...]
World’s water dries up
Mail and Guardian – South Africa | YOLANDI GROENEWALD – Nov 06 2008 South Africans should brace themselves for a severely water-stressed future, a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report on the world’s ecological footprint warned this week. The influential international report has been released every two years for the past decade. In 1996 it warned [...]
World is facing a natural resources crisis worse than financial crunch
The Guardian | Wednesday October 29 2008 | Juliette Jowit The world is heading for an “ecological credit crunch” far worse than the current financial crisis because humans are over-using the natural resources of the planet, an international study warns today. The Living Planet report calculates that humans are using 30% more resources than the [...]
