Mexico: Activists protest against world environmental policies
December 9, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
Activist from environmental group Greenpeace on Wednesday submerged models of iconic buildings and structures from around the world into the Caribbean Sea in a bid to draw attention to the threats posed by rising sea levels.
The sinking of these structures comes as leaders and ministers meet for UN climate talks at the Mexican beach resort of Cancun. Ministers in Cancun are seeking a package deal to set up a fund to oversee climate aid, ways to slow deforestation, steps to help poor countries adapt to climate change and a mechanism to share clean technologies such as wind and solar power. Many rich countries want emerging economies, led by fast-growing China and India, to do far more, including greater oversight of their programs to rein in greenhouse gas emissions.
PPP CEC Expresses Confidence in President Zardari
December 19, 2009 by Trend PK
Filed under Breaking News
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan News: Pakistan People’s Party’s Central Executive Council (CEC) on Saturday adopted a unanimous resolution posing full confidence in the leadership of President Asif Ali Zardari.
The CEC decided to defend NRO-related cases against party leaders in courts.
Aitzaz Ahsan also gave a legal briefing to the CEC on the NRO and other constitution related matters. He had called on the President and discussed various issues with him before the party meeting, sources said.
The meeting, chaired by PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, was taking place at the President House in Islamabad on Saturday.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Senator Raza Rabbani, Makhdum Amin Fahim, Defense Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Lashkari Raesani, Syed Mehid Shah, Safder Abbasi, Jahangir Badar and others attended the meeting.
PPP CEC Expresses Confidence in President Zardari was first posted on December 19, 2009 at 5:52 pm.
UN Chief Announces Deal on Climate
December 19, 2009 by Trend PK
Filed under Breaking News
COPENHAGEN: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says “we have a deal” after a climate conference in Copenhagen decided to recognize a political accord brokered by President Barack Obama with China and other emerging powers.
But Ban says he’s “aware that this is just the beginning” of a process to craft a binding pact to rein in greenhouse gas emissions. Still, Ban says the Copenhagen Agreement “will have an immediate operational effect.”
Many poor nations had bitterly protested the deal because it lacks specific targets for reducing carbon emissions
UN Chief Announces Deal on Climate was first posted on December 19, 2009 at 5:57 pm.
