South America Green News

Addressing a news conference at the International Financial Centre, Port-of-Spain last Friday, Sarkozy was asked to comment on TT�s intention to construct an aluminium smelter while at the same time discussing ways and means of reducing carbon emissions, Sarkozy is...

Over the next three days Trinidad and Tobago, this small country, will showcase its wonderful Chinese architecture to our envious Commonwealth brethren...Watch my costume (including my brand-name ’darkers’ that I don’t take off, not even to look Her Majesty in...

So, too, it seems in the world of climate change negotiations. On Wednesday, Australia was the toast of that strange section of the world that spends its time monitoring the ins and outs of United Nations climate talks. The Government...

It was a typical Tuesday night in South America's largest nation. In Sao Paulo, maids and security guards made their way home after another day's grind. In Rio, samba musicians began taking to the stage, their faces glazed in sweat...

France and Brazil have agreed on a policy to deal with climate change ahead of a UN summit on the subject in Copenhagen, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said. 'We want the Copenhagen to be a success, we won't accept an...

While land development, human settlement, and logging are the main sources of deforestation , the bedrock of this global ecocide is the construction of roads which tear through the rainforest habitat, laying down concrete in every direction with each newly...

Denmark's prime minister says the country's climate minister will leave her Cabinet post to head next month's Copenhagen climate summit. Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen says Climate Minister Connie Hedegaard has been named minister in charge of the two-week international...

The aim of the fund, which is backed by 35 countries, is to begin cutting the rate of deforestation immediately, without waiting for the United Nations to complete negotiations on its own scheme for saving rainforests. Payments will be made...

Brazil — British pop star Sting says Brazil's government should listen to the voices of local indigenous groups before building a massive hydroelectric dam in the Amazon rain forest. Sting told a news conference Sunday in Sao Paulo the decision...