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Last 20 Shows Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world Mexico gives Davos a taste of what to expect of its stewardship of climate talks later this year; Morocco's plans to modernise its port facilities pay scant regard to its coastline; Romania considers reopening a controversial gold processing plant 10 years on from a devastating cyanide spill; and the UN asks us to consider what we wear when it comes to saving species. You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. D ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Living Planet: Environment matters from around the worldMexico gives Davos a taste of what to expect of its stewardship of climate talks later this year; Morocco's plans to modernise its port facilities pay scant regard to its coastline; Romania considers reopening a controversial gold processing plant 10 years on from a devastating cyanide spill; and the UN asks us to consider what we wear when it comes to saving species. You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. D ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Living Planet: Environment matters around the worldThis week on Living Planet we delve into a scandal over the labelling of organic cotton wear in Europe, we chat with the Pakistani-born climate expert Adil Najam, and we hear about how Australia's environment ministry is considering banning people from climbing one of the country's most famous tourist attractions. You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Organic garment makers respond to cotton scamDemand for ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Living Planet: Environmental Mattters Around the WorldThis week on Living Planet we take a look at the scandal over Germany's disintegrating nuclear repository at Asse, snow sports' troubling future in the European Alps, a royal rumble over a solar energy park and pioneering efforts to insulate old apartment blocks so they lose next to no heat.You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. Decision reached on disintegrating German nuclear repositoryGerman authorities h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Living Planet: Environment matters around the worldHow European policy-makers are rethinking climate strategy post-Copenhagen, the state of Germany's Greens Party on its 30th birthday, Armenian conservationists' efforts to save one of the highest lakes in the world, and what the head of the UN's environment program thinks we need to do to halt current rates of extinction.You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for individual reports.Top German climate advisor says the dice are not yet c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Living Planet: Environment matters from around the worldThis week on Living Planet we take a look at an ambitious proposal for a green energy grid to hook up nine countries around the North Sea, what the UN's 2010 year of biodiversity means and how the rate of evolution is now being measured in the test tube.You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Europe plans ambitious North Sea renewables gridEurope is planning a massive electricity grid to run under the North Se ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the GlobeOn this week's Living Planet, India's Ganges delta residents struggle to cope with the impact of climate change, Russian scientists scoff at global warming and why schoolchildren in Ghent are changing their eating habits. Ganges delta residents bear the brunt of climate changeA few months ago, tropical storm Aila swept across the Ganges river delta in India. Meter-high tidal waves flooded many islands, destroying houses and turning the land brackish. Hundreds of people died and thousands lo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the GlobeOn this edition of Living Planet, a look-back at the Copenhagen summit amid disappointment over its outcome, an analysis of the drawbacks of the European Emissions Trading Scheme, and Australia faces a thousand-year drought! Widespread disappointment over outcome of climate talksLiving Planet takes a look-back at the Copenhagen summit, for which tens of thousands of climate activists and delegates from 193 countries had gathered in the Danish capital for almost two weeks.
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Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the GlobeThis week Living Planet is at the global climate summit in Copenhagen with an in-depth look at the negotiations themselves as well as some of the key items on the agenda. Deadline to replace Kyoto loomsThe Kyoto Protocol officially expires in 2012 and while that may seem like a long way off, something needs to be done because carbon is already taking its toll on the planet.Ever since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, countries have been talking about ways to tackle climate change. That meeting gav ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the GlobeThis week on Living Planet an NGO hands over 10 million demands for a fair climate summit, assessing the media hype surrounding Copenhagen, the technological gains driven by climate change, and how one French city is spreading the idea of eco-friendly lights.Eco NGO has 10 million supporters calling for fair dealThe Alliance of Small Island States is urging delegates at the global climate summit in Copenhagen to approve measures that would save their homes from sinking into the sea.The 15th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the GlobeThis week on Living Planet we speak to the head of the UN's climate secretariat, take a look at where the EU stands ahead of the climate summit, learn how the Dutch are hoping to combat the rising waters, and find out how REDD could bring Madagascar a little more green.Copenhagen is all or nothing, says de BoerThe head of the United Nations climate secretariat tells Deutsche Welle that the upcoming summit in the Danish capital has to be a success.For two weeks the world will watch as heads ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the GlobeThis week on Living Planet we go shopping for a sustainable mall, learn why heating with wood can be both good and bad, and take a trip south to see how the island nation of Jamaica is trying to go green to save the environment and bring in money.Sustainable shopping mall could change design ideas in GermanyMassive shopping complexes are one of the last places anyone would probably put on their list of eco-friendly buildings. A German design firm is hoping to change that.The end of November ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the GlobeThis week on Living Planet: the German chancellor announces plans to attend the climate conference in Copenhagen, Ecuador calls on the international community to pay it not to drill for oil, and bridging the social and ecological divide between the German majority and Turkish minority.Merkel announces plans to attend CopenhagenGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel will be joining her French and British counterparts at the global climate summit in Copenhagen. Many have applauded the move, but some ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the GlobeThis week on Living Planet we take a look at a plan to raise the price of carbon credits, how car-sharing is taking off in Germany despite the credit crunch, the future of eco-energy in sunny Spain, and how one of the planet's most energy-intensive IT products could be more green.Eco-activists strive to raise the price of carbonCap and trade is a system designed to let developed countries piggyback on the climate friendly aspects of much of the developed world. But is the price they pay rea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the GlobeThis week on Living Planet takes a look at the devastating aftermath of an oil spill in Lebanon, an auto race where the goal is efficiency over speed, the pros and cons of eco-friendly, earthquake-proof housing in Italy and gets the lowdown on carbon capture and sequestration.Years later, devastating oil spill continues to ravage LebanonThe United Nations has named November 6 as the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict.One of the fir ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the GlobeUsing human waste as an eco-friendly building material, trees that can quickly deliver a large, steady supply of quality hardwood, and turning carbon from coal-fired power plants into fertilizer.Bricks take on an organic twistEverything flushed down the toilet eventually ends up at a sewage treatment plant where it is turned into sewage sludge. Each year in Germany some 200 million tons of the stuff is processed. Half of that is burned in power plants and the other half is used on fields as ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the GlobeAn outlined plan for carbon neutrality, mudslides threaten the Italian landscape, transforming Norwegian spruce into beautiful hardwood, and a seal paradise remains a big draw in Holland.NGOs outline path to carbon neutralityThis December 192 government representatives are supposed to hammer out an agreement that will dictate a 95 percent reduction in carbon emissions compared to 1990 levels. But how does a country actually put that plan into action?Negotiations to form a new climate agreem ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the GlobeAn outlined plan for carbon neutrality, mudslides threaten the Italian landscape, transforming Norwegian spruce into beautiful hardwood, and a seal paradise remains a big draw in Holland.NGOs outline path to carbon neutralityThis December 192 government representatives are supposed to hammer out an agreement that will dictate a 95 percent reduction in carbon emissions compared to 1990 levels. But how does a country actually put that plan into action?Negotiations to form a new climate agreem ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the GlobeSwiss tackle threat posed by glacial lakes, unlocking the wonders of the African miracle tree, hormone-free beef in Europe and climate campaigners go to camp.You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Swiss tackle threat posed by glacial lakesAs climate change causes glaciers around the world to melt, a new threat to those living in their shadows has emerged. Unstable glacial lakes are forming high in the mountai ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Living Planet: Environmental Matters Around the GlobeClimate-friendly living could fail to meet emissions goals, counting carbon around the world and getting up close and personal with one of humanity's most endangered relatives.You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.UN carbon emissions goal beyond reach of most GermansReducing CO2 emissions by 80 to 90 percent as the United Nations has recommended is going to take a lot more than just retooling industries and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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