Reportage Environmental Edition 2009
Britons are fighting a losing battle to keep their iconic river clean amidst ineffective infrastructure and environmental challenges. Elizabeth Pearson reports.
The Copenhagen Climate Conference was significant for all, but none as much as the Pacific Islands, whose people will lose their homes, culture and livelihoods in the near future. May Slater reports.
A crucial scientific report has not been included in the environmental impact assessment of a new $16 billion gas project in Papua New Guinea, which received the final green-light from co-venturers last week.
While the world’s attention is focused on the 2009 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, the Pacific Island country of New Caledonia is quietly struggling with its own climate change burden. Nicole Gooch reports.
Greenwashing the palm oil industry
British museum still refusing to return Parthenon pieces
Copenhagen, Hopenhagen, Brokenhagen
Contrary to the views of green groups around the world, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says that the Copenhagen agreement was a vital step in combating climate change. Elizabeth Pearson reports from London.
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The COP15 negotiations are entering their final stages, but space is limited so NGO’s are being forced out as heads of states arrive in big numbers. Jeppe Funder & Rune Langhoff report.
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Danish police are maximising their use of the new protest package of laws, arresting over 1000 COP15 protesters in the past week, writes Jeppe Funder.
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Controversial dredging of Victoria’s Port Phillip Bay to enable bigger ships to use the port facilities finished recently, but the conflict between locals and the Port of Melbourne Corporation is far from over, writes Christie Sinclair.
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Attention must be claimed inside the busy COP15 venue, as Reportage enviro Danish Correspondent, Jeppe Funder, discovers.
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NGOs and developing nations are in an uproar after a Danish draft agreement showing preference to wealthy countries and abandoning the Kyoto protocol was leaked. Reportage enviro’s Danish Correspondent, Jeppe Funder, reports from COP15.
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The Danish Government has passed controversial new laws to detain violent protesters in the lead up to COP15.
Jeppe Funder reports from the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen.
The New South Wales government, Australia, is considering amendments to the National Parks and Wildlife Act that will make it easier for developers and tourism operators to use parks land. Rebecca Leaver, Amanda Hoh, and Nick Evershed reporting.
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