by Oilwatch Africa | May 11, 2013 | Africa, Global, Latin America, News, South Asia
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...
by Oilwatch Africa | May 10, 2013 | Africa, Global, Latin America, News, South Asia
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...
by Oilwatch Africa | May 2, 2013 | Africa, Latin America, Publication, South Asia
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...
by Oilwatch Africa | Apr 3, 2013 | Africa, Latin America, News
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...
by Oilwatch Africa | Dec 19, 2009 | Africa, Global, Latin America, Press Release, South Asia
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...
