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Coal plant in the United States, the country responsible for 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. Photo credit: Photo Stock.

Coal plant in the United States, the country responsible for 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. Photo credit: Photo Stock.

Report

By Francesca Colombo

Death Blow for Kyoto?

Delegates to the ninth conference on climate change in Italy are discussing alternatives in case the Kyoto Protocol is done in by a “no” from Russia, which would doom 11 years of efforts.

Accents

By Patricia Grogg

Use of Biogas Expands in Cuba

Tierramérica visits a biogas plant in the Cuban province of Pinar del Río. Some 100 biogas installations on the island are using the renewable fuel obtained from organic waste like manure or vegetable waste.

Accents

By Marcela Valente

First Truly “Green-Friendly” Refrigerator

A new kind of refrigerator is being built in Argentina that will replace ozone-depleting refrigerants with non-polluting hydrocarbon gases. The clean technology, which originated in Europe, is being used in South America for the first time.

Environmental Rights

More than half a century since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is celebrated on Dec. 10, the struggle for the right to a healthy environment is growing fast.
In this section, we provide several informative web-sites on the linkages between human rights and the environment.

Farmers and ranchers in Guatemala ask to be excluded from Central American Free Trade Treaty…The Cuban flicker no longer pecks nesting holes in trees…Campaign for protection of biological corridor in Nicaragua…Town fights construction of thermoelectric plant in Chile…Landless families occupy national park in Venezuela…The collection and storage of rainwater in Brazil.

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