GHANA: Dumping ground for used gadgets
In the heart of Accra - in an area called `Abgogbloshie
View ArticlePhilippine Groups Pressed for Rejection of
Amid intermittent rains, public health and environmental justice groups on August 5 held a funeral march at the Philippine Senate to symbolize death to the environment and economy with the ratification...
View ArticleEPA Lets Electronic Waste Flow Freely, GAO Report Says
17 September, 2008. The Environmental Protection Agency has done little to curb the export of discarded electronic products containing hazardous waste, much of which ends up in poorly regulated...
View ArticleGroups Push for Zero Budget for Rusting Incinerators
28 September 2008, Quezon City, Philippines. The Philippines could get its children out of waste dumps and into schools with the almost P100 million that would be saved if Congress denies the budget...
View ArticleGroup wants zero budget for 'toxic' incinerators
GAIA demands zero budget allocation for obsolete Austrian incinerators dumped in Philippines
View ArticleSyeda Rizwana Hasan: Goldman Environmental Prize Winner 2009
Working to reduce the impact of Bangladesh
View ArticleRizwana Hasan, BELA wins Goldman Environmental Prize for her work on...
Rizwana Hasan, Bangladesh: Working to reduce the impact of Bangladesh
View ArticleLeading Africans to Responsible Recycling
Recycling of electronic waste continues to pose a hazard to workers and the environment.
View ArticleTEDx: Plastic Is the New Smoking
Think of the Gulf oil spill only a couple thousand miles longer. A loosely formed mass of plastic paraphernalia stretches from the beaches of Santa Monica, all the way across the Pacific Ocean, the...
View ArticleClimate Benefits of Natural Gas May Be Overstated
The United States is poised to bet its energy future on natural gas as a clean, plentiful fuel that can supplant coal and oil. But new research by the Environmental Protection Agency
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New Delhi Declaration Seeking Elimination of all forms of asbestos including chrysotile from India was adopted and endorsed by eminent scientists and doctors on 24th March, 2011 at a Round Table which...
View ArticleThe Green Climate Fund: Effective Community Ally or Corporate Giveaway?
The international community is creating a new entity, the Green Climate Fund, to channel up to $100bn a year to climate solutions in developing countries. In this paper, GAIA uses concrete examples...
View ArticleEU is investing in toxic waste projects in developing world, GAIA claims
The EU is threatening waste-pickers' livelihoods and backing projects that may actually increase emissions, says report
View ArticleCostly Dirty Money-making schemes
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a scheme under an international climate change agreement that allows developed countries to buy
View ArticleFilipinos Tell Canada to Re-Import Botched Garbage Shipment at Embassy Protest
Filipinos braved sweltering heat to remind Canada of the illegally shipped 50 garbage-filled container vans languishing in Manila and Subic ports that it has yet to re-import.
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