Mexican News
The latest news from and about Mexican issues.Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Human Shadows on the Seas.
The New York Times, February 26, 2008 - “A paper in the Feb. 15 issue of the journal Science is the first effort to map 17 kinds of human ocean impacts like organic pollution, including agricultural runoff and sewage; damage from bottom-scraping trawls; and intensive traditional fishing along coral reefs. About 40 percent of ocean areas are strongly affected, and just 4 percent pristine, according to the review.” Read more.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Business leaders tackle emissions.
Washington Times, February 15, 2008 - “Tim Wirth, president of the U.N. Foundation and former Democratic senator from Colorado, said the next 50 years would bring a unique chance to adopt energy sources that emit less carbon dioxide and other global-warming gases. He said that shift would prove to be ‘as important as the computer revolution in generating new wealth and jobs.’” Read more.
All world’s seas show damage.
The Star [Canada], February 14, 2008 - “Researchers studying 17 different activities ranging from fishing to pollution compiled a new map showing how and where people have impacted the seas. The map was released at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston and published in today’s edition of the journal Science. {snip] ‘Our results show that when these and other individual impacts are summed up, the big picture looks much worse than I imagine most people expected. It was certainly a surprise to me,’ said lead author Ben Halpern, an assistant research scientist at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California, Santa Barbara.” Read more.
Monday, February 11, 2008
U.N. Gathering to address climate change.
Associated Press, February 11, 2008 - “The U.N. General Assembly is bringing together business leaders, activists and government officials for a debate on climate change starting Monday — an effort to keep up the momentum for a new treaty by 2009 to fight global warming. The two-day session is a follow-up to the international climate conference in December on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, where delegates from nearly 190 nations agreed to adopt a blueprint to control global warming gases before the end of next year.” Read more.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Fourteen Years of NAFTA and the Tortilla Crisis
IRC Americas Program, January 17, 2008 - “In January 2008, agricultural trade between Mexico, the United States, and Canada will become completely free, with the end of the implementation period of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). [snip] NAFTA is the first treaty to treat two developed countries and an underdeveloped one as equals. But compared to U.S. and Canadian agricultural sectors, Mexico’s presents huge asymmetries in terms of economics, technology, production factors, and agricultural policies and supports.” Read more, here.
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
NAFTA Free Trade Myths Lead to Farm Failure in Mexico.
Americas Program, Dec. 5, 2007 - “The tariff removal ostensibly gives full rein to an open-market trade and investment regime between the United States and Mexico. The idea is that all products now enter into a competitive market that will self-regulate to enhance production, efficiency, investment, and, indirectly, the lives of Mexican producers and consumers. That’s the idea. But what has happened in the Mexican countryside over the past 14 years of NAFTA shows that free trade has been a disaster for small farmers in Mexico.” Read more.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Bali climate summit: a test of the world’s resolve
Christian Science Monitor, November 29, 2007 - “Next week is seen as crunch time in the fight against global warming. Representatives from some 130 nations will gather in Bali, Indonesia, beginning a two-year effort to agree on a new pact to cut greenhouse-gas emissions – one that goes well beyond the goals of the current Kyoto Protocol.” Read more.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Analysis: Prepping for post-Kyoto talks
UPI, November 20, 2007 - “The success of post-Kyoto Protocol talks this December hinge on determining which countries must commit to limit greenhouse gas emissions and what the nature of those commitments should be, experts say. The Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty that aims at climate-change mitigation, expires in 2012, 13 years after its adoption at a U.N. conference in 1997 and seven years after it officially came into force. On Dec. 3, delegations from around the world will converge on Bali, Indonesia, to develop a framework for upcoming talks on the treaty’s replacement.” Read more.
Friday, November 16, 2007
UN: climate change will have ‘abrupt and irreversible’ consequences.
Times Online, Britain, November 16, 2007 - “A panel of the United Nations’ leading scientists is to warn that climate change could have “abrupt and irreversible” consequences, in a landmark document designed to force action from member states on the issue. [snip] In three previous reports, IPCC experts have agreed that the rise in Earth’s temperature observed in the past few decades is principally the result of human activity, not natural causes, as sceptics have argued.” Read more.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Report: Climate change ups war risk in many states.
Reuters, November 13, 2007 - “Climate change will put half the world’s countries at risk of conflict or serious political instability, a report said on Tuesday, making the world more unstable unless nations and communities consider problems now. International Alert, a London-based conflict resolution group, identified 46 countries—home to 2.7 billion people—where it said the effects of climate change would create a high risk of violent conflict. It identified another 56 states where there was a risk of political instability.” Read more.
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