There is a kind of theft that happens every day in a majority of the world’s poor countries - and in many of the richer ones too.
It usually happens out of sight, and most perpetrators get away with it.
The monetary value of this theft is about $15bn per year; the ecological cost can only be guessed at.
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Indigenous communities from around the world urged G8 rich nations on Friday to help them participate in global climate change talks, saying they contributed least to but are most affected by global warming.
Clad in colorful traditional robes, 26 representatives from countries including the United States, Canada, and Japan, along with some 400 students, activists, and academics, met on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido.
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A key European Union lawmaker said on Friday he had broad parliamentary backing to propose changing the EU’s target for biofuels so that 4 percent of road transport fuels come from renewable sources by 2015.
Claude Turmes told Reuters one-fifth of those renewable fuels would have to be either second generation biofuels or electric vehicles. There would be a major review in 2015 to decide whether to move towards an 8-10 percent target in 2020.
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The European Union geared up on Friday for deep cuts in greenhouse gases as eight ex-communist states sought help in overhauling their infrastructure for a low-carbon future.
France, which took over the EU’s rotating presidency this week, has made climate change its top priority and hosted a meeting on the outskirts of Paris to identify the main areas of disagreement.
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Australia’s environmental jewels such as the Great Barrier Reef are at risk from climate change. Photographer: Queensland Tourism/AP
Australia was urged today to “think big” on climate change and to adopt without delay a broad-based greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme in as many industries as possible, including the energy and transport sectors.
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Farmers tonight threatened legal action if the Government decides not to allow a cull of badgers to tackle tuberculosis in cattle.
National Farmers’ Union president Peter Kendall said reports that Environment Secretary Hilary Benn was not going to authorise a cull would be “nothing short of a disaster” if true.
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Product designer Philippe Starck has come out of retirement with what may be the most practical product of his career: ‘Democratic Ecology.’ This device is a personalized windmill able to give anybody the power to generate their own designer power.
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Ricoh Americas Corporation announced today that its parent company, Ricoh Company, Ltd. of Tokyo, will erect a sign in New York City’s Times Square that will be 100 percent powered by solar and wind power. The electronic billboard, the first ever to be totally powered by natural resources in Times Square, will be located at 3 Times Square at the corner of 7th Avenue and 42nd Street.
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Buildings in Wales could be expected to include renewable and low-carbon energy under proposed planning policies to tackle climate change launched yesterday.
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Soaring world food prices look set to force Gordon Brown into a U-turn over the use of crops such as corn, rapeseed, palm and soya to produce fuel as an alternative to petrol and diesel.
Biofuels were seen as the eco-friendly answer to global warming and rising fuel prices but a report to be published on Monday will force the Prime Minister to rethink his support for using crops to keep Britain’s cars and lorries running.
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