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This week Greenpeace has finally revealed who really is to blame for deforestation and in turn, climate change. The suspect has already allegedly caused a wrong body image and eating disorders in generations of girls, but I never was aware just how much Barbie really has to do with the fate of our planet. Greenpeace [...]
Dr. Marianne Osterkorn, REEEP‘s Director General attended the Cancun conference and was recently quizzed on her thoughts about the outcome. Looking at the Cancun Agreements, would you rate COP16 as a success or failure? I’d say Cancun was a qualified success in that there was an agreement at all – albeit a fairly weak one. [...]
Water is the source of all life, and like all goods it isn’t portioned out fairly. When considering that the average German flushes more water down the toilet in a year than an average African uses during his entire life, it becomes clear just how uneven the access to clean water is. The amount of [...]
Deforestation is responsible for 17% of global carbon emission, yet each year an area the size of England is destroyed. Growing populations, agriculture and the timber industry are amongst the reasons that today the market values forests more destroyed than standing.
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped nearly 46% from August 2008 to July 2009 — the biggest annual decline in two decades, according to the National Institute for Space Research. They took satellite images that show that some 7,008 square kilometers of trees were cut down in the year to July, almost half of the [...]
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