Government to unveil “new environmental strategy” | Minivan News
The government will “not completely” reverse the former government’s carbon neutral policies outlined by President Mohamed Nasheed during his three years in office, the President’s Office has said.
...Despite Nasheed’s high-profile climate activism, Greenpeace in 2010 told Minivan News that the Maldives acted more “as a symbol than a practical demonstration” of how national development and fighting climate change can be mutually exclusive.
“The Maldives can become a strong proponent of a paradigm shift in the World Bank and in developing countries whereby it is recognised that fighting climate change and promoting development go hand in hand,” said Wendel Trio, Climate Policy and Global Deal Coordinator for Greenpeace International.
What's Hot Cayman's Local Guide :: The fresh water debate
It would seem that most of the world suffered from an elevated rainfall quota in April, we certainly did in the Cayman Islands!
Yet, this is against a backdrop of hose-pipe bans in the UK and increasing concerns from the scientific community regarding fresh water availability. As ever with the climate change debate, Mother Nature likes to provide the occasional curve ball, shrouding the entire issue in a mist of juxtapositions.
BERKELEY, Calif., June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Solar cells do not offset greenhouse gases or curb fossil fuel use in the United States according to a new environmental book, Green Illusions (June 2012, University of Nebraska Press), written by University of California - Berkeley visiting scholar Ozzie Zehner. Green Illusions explains how the solar industry has grown to become one of the leading emitters of hexafluoroethane (C2F6), nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6). These three potent greenhouse gases, used by solar cell fabricators, make carbon dioxide (CO2) seem harmless.
Freezing June! It'll rain all week, and we might see snow | Mail Online
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