CLIMATE CHANGE
Joseph Boughey* reviews Velma Grover's book on water and
conflict.
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Tough economic times are putting the environment to the
back of the political and public agenda, says Colin
Challen*.
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Government policy on the environment is becoming more
and more unhinged, says CIWEM Executive Director, Nick Reeves. The
biofuels obligation just doesn't stack up and should be
withdrawn.
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Contraction and Convergence (C&C) is like a
perfect cadence in music says Aubrey Meyer*.
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CIWEM Executive Director, Nick Reeves, says a third
runway at Heathrow looks like a done deal that could cast a long
shadow over the Government's claim to be green.
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Carbon offsetting, like ethical consumerism, has become
terribly chic and very middle class but, asks CIWEM Executive
Director, Nick Reeves, does it really work?
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Ian McEwan, novelist (published in Burning Ice, by Cape
Farewell).
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Emily Doyle* explains how climate change is threatening
the future of the Inuit population.
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CIWEM Executive Director, Nick Reeves, thinks the
unthinkable.
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Never mind oil and gas, says CIWEM Executive Director,
Nick Reeves, it is arguments over water that could cause the next
global conflict.
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Artist Noel Miller describes the role that art has
played in communicating the romance and fragility of
Antarctica.
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Erika Yarrow talks to artists Helen and Newton Harrison
about their new exhibition 'Greenhouse Britain: Losing Ground,
Gaining Wisdom.'
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Dave Hampton* highlights the playground politics of
climate change and says it is time for the West to stop griping and
clean up its act.
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David Balmforth* says we must change our ways or face
the consequences of increased flood events.
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CIWEM Executive Director, Nick Reeves, says governments
seem to think that actions on the symptoms of a warming world will
win the war on climate change. . . Big mistake.
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CIWEM Executive Director, Nick Reeves, says climate
change is not the global problem we all think it is. It will have
winners and losers.
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Geoff Darch* on climate change and how we can prepare
for future flooding.
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The arrival of David Miliband at Defra last year
signalled that the Government was gearing up for a nuclear future
and preventing other political parties from claiming the green
agenda. CIWEM Executive Director, Nick Reeves, reports from
Westminster.
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What do Dreissena polymorpha and modern art in Canada
have in common? Plenty, according to British artist Simon Starling,
winner of the 2005 Turner Prize. Sarah Stanners*
reports.
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Artist John Goto* describes how his work is
disseminating ideas around flood risk management.
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Erika Yarrow talks to the renowned authority on climate
change.
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Rabbi Jeffrey Newman asks if we will rise to the
challenge set by climate change or continue to worship the 'golden
calf'.
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Fola Ogunyoye* highlights the impact of Europe's
floods.
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Aregu Balleh* describes how desertification is devastating lives in Ethiopia.
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Paul Brown* considers the complexities of climate change
and the role of religion in communicated good
stewardship.
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David Buckland* concludes our serialisation of Burning Ice, Cape
Farewell's inspirational book documenting the recent Arctic
explorations of artists, scientists and writers onboard a 100-year
old schooner.
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Sir Michael Pitt* introduces the key findings of his recently published Review of the UK’s response to the summer floods of 2007.
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The Maasai are struggling with frequent water shortages which is threatening their way of life. But one women's group is taking action, as Ebby Nanzala* reports.
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Yifat Susskind* describes the work that MADRE undertakes to empower women in communities most exposed to environmental disaster.
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Sculptural statements by Peter Clegg and Antony Gormley created during a Cape Farewell expedition to the Arctic.
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John Madeley* considers climate change from a Christian perspective.
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David Rooke* discusses the impact of the summer's
floods.
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Colin Challen, MP for Morley & Rothwell and Chair of
the All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group, talks to Aneeta
Ahluwalia*.
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Erika Yarrow finds inspiration, energy and optimism amongst arts and ecology experts at the University of Falmouth.
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REDD (Reduced Emissions for Deforestation and Degradation) is a UN proposal to pay developing countries for preserving forests and, in so doing, helping to reduce global carbon emissions. Rod Harbinson, head of the Panos London environment programme talks to indigenous groups and conservationists. This audio report is available courtesy of Panos London.
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