Laurie Goering
Laurie Goering is AlertNet's climate change editor. Prior to joining AlertNet in 2009, she was a Chicago Tribune correspondent based for 15 years in New Delhi, Johannesburg, Mexico City, Havana, Rio de Janeiro and London, covering a wide range of issues but with a special focus on climate change.
Video shows evidence of Himalayan glacier melt
Just how fast glaciers are shrinking and why has been a subject of some debate, particularly in India. Last week the country's environmental minister released a report questioning whether climate change was driving the retreat of some Himalayan glaciers and arguing that some are actually growing. ...
Q+A: Women's education, family planning can help curb climate change - UN
LONDON (AlertNet) - Investing in family planning and women's education may be two of the most cost effective means of curbing climate change and coping with its now inevitable effects, the United Nations Population Fund argues in a new report. Women who are educated choose to have fewer children and are better prepared to help protect their families economically in the face of climate change pressures, according to the agency's 2009 report, "Facing a Changing World: Women, Population and Climate." ...
How feasible is a financial tax to fund adaptation?
How might the world raise the $100 billion or more per year that experts believe developing world countries will need to adapt to the effects of climate change? Dan Smith, the secretary general of International Alert, an independent peace-building organisation, thinks a tax on financial transactions is just the thing. ...
Efforts to fight climate change have progressed little in 20 years-researchers
LONDON (AlertNet) - The declaration warns of a rise in temperature of 1 to 2 degrees Centigrade by 2030, notes the perils of rising sea level for small island states and urges richer nations to share technology, funding and training to help poorer nations limit climate change and its effects. It could have been passed this week when the president of the Maldives convened a summit of nations most vulnerable to climate change, in an effort to persuade them to join his nation in becoming carbon-neutral. He failed. ...
Pachauri: Prospects for strong Copenhagen deal 'not looking very good'
By Laurie Goering LONDON (AlertNet) - Without a specific U.S. commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions, negotiators will agree only a "very weak" global deal to curb climate change in Copenhagen next month, the U.N.'s top climate scientist predicted on Monday. The new climate pact is designed to build on the existing Kyoto Protocol, with rich nations taking on deeper emission cuts and helping fund efforts in poorer nations to cut emissions and adapt to the effects of climate change. ...
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