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ETHICS ARE 'MISSING DIMENSION' IN CLIMATE DEBATE, SAYS IPCC HEAD
NEW YORK — The inequities and injustices that are likely to occur on a global level because of climate change mean that world leaders must carefully examine the moral and ethical dimensions of global warming, said Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
"The impacts of climate change are going to be inequitable, unequal, and severe in many parts of the world," said Dr. Pachauri, who spoke today at a breakfast meeting at the Baha'i International Community offices.
"We have to think at a much higher level. And I think this is where ethics comes in so critically as the missing dimension in this debate," he said.
05 Oct 2009
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Africa is heading for an ecological disaster by Mariam Mayet
First introduced commercially in South Africa in 1998, genetically modified (GM) seeds are used extensively in our agriculture. In just over 10 years, 56 percent of South Africa's white maize and 72 percent of its yellow maize have been converted to genetic modification.
A staggering 96 percent of the area planted to cotton is comprised of GM varieties and 88 percent of soyabeans are GM. Genetic modification is an imported technology, and licensed for use in South Africa. A small handful of multinational agro-chemical/seed corporations - Monsanto, Syngenta and Pioneer Hi-Bred - control the GM seed market. Monsanto has bagged the lion's share of the patents on GM traits and secured access to the South African market through an extensive and well-oiled agribusiness dealer network.
29 Sep 2009
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Conference: Religion joins with science to address environment issues
WASHINGTON — People’s spiritual beliefs affect their attitude toward climate change, with religious groups increasingly helping to frame humanity’s response to environmental issues.
28 Sep 2009
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OUR FUTURE LIES WITH RENEWABLES, NOT COAL.
The Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute (SAFCEI) is concerned about recent reports that the South African cabinet is not to set targets for carbon emissions at the forthcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December. It fervently hopes that this in no way compromises cabinet’s endorsement of the laudable carbon reduction commitments arising from the Long Term Mitigation Strategy (LTMS) process. We, members of faith communities, hope cabinet will “do the right thing” and set an example to the world.
18 Sep 2009
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