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You may not remember it, but the Copenhagen climate talks will be followed by a series of conferences in Cancun, Mexico between November 29 and December 10. Contrary to Copenhagen, little is currently said about the preparations.
And the media aren’t encouraging. To AP : ” In two days of talks, major economic powers discussed ways to move ahead in slowing and coping with climate change, but no one sees a grand global deal anywhere on the horizon “
“(…) no one is expecting or anticipating in any way a legal treaty to be done at Cancun this year.” This situation is puzzling as there are many reasons to act fast and big. Continue »
Here is a post on a subject not so unrelated to sustainable development. To the International Labour Organization : “ Global youth unemployment has reached its highest level on record, and is expected to increase through 2010 “
The ILO also warns of the “risk of a crisis legacy of a ‘lost generation’ comprised of young people who have dropped out of the labour market, having lost all hope of being able to work for a decent living”.
Meanwhile the triple crisis is looming. And it will hit us even harder when oil prices will be back at their highest levels. This will bring undoubtedly another increase in youth unemployment. Continue »
As TreeHugger noted yesterday the President of the Russian Confederation, Dimitri Medvedev, believes that the current heat wave and assorted droughts and wild fires occurring in his country are a wake up call.
Indeed, having a look at the current situation in Russia and its capital city Moscow sure makes you think about climate change and how associated phenomena can turn any country in a most dramatic situation.
The situation is so dire that Russia may soon change its mind on global warming and may now be willing to avert it before it is too late… or is it already the case ?
After nearly three months (cf. A huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ) it seems it is finally (almost) over. To the Guardian : ” BP held out hope today that it had finally brought America’s worst oil spill under control “.
But we shouldn’t rejoice too fast as ” executives and officials were warning that the nightmare wasn’t over yet. “ I am surprised it took both the United States and BP nearly three months to stop such a catastrophe.
Anyway, let us hope now that this huge fiasco will act as a wake up call towards less oil and more efficiency and cleantech. Continue »
