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Tag: GLOBE

  • Wednesday, May 30th 2012 - 04:22 UTC

    GLOBE convening first World Summit of Legislators at Rio, ahead of Earth summit

    GLOBE President, John Gummer, Lord Deben: “It’s not what governments say that matters, it’s what they do”

    How many times have government leaders pledged to reduce carbon emissions or tackle the accelerating loss of biodiversity? If statements and pledges were all that it took to fix the biggest global challenges, the world would not be faced with dangerous concentrations of greenhouse gases, shrinking rainforests and extinctions at up to 1,000 times the natural rate.

  • Saturday, April 28th 2012 - 03:03 UTC

    Mexico sets ground-breaking global benchmark on tacking deforestation

    The gross reduction in forest land over this 15 year period is still a staggering 218 million hectares

    By MP Barry Gardiner and Ignacio Pichardo (*) - Below the global radar, a major victory was secured in Mexico on Tuesday 24th April in the world-wide battle to prevent deforestation and forest degradation, which are collectively the world's second largest sources of greenhouse emissions.