News Coverage from IFEJ Stockholm 2006
Here is a list of articles from IFEJ Congress in Stockholm 2006.
It's to late to add your article, TV-program, etc here!
Official Swedish press releases:
- Swedish Government press
release. (Mona Sahlin's visit to Hammarby Sjöstad). [Swedish]
Material from IFEJ-delegates:
- Michael Simire's "Invisible
Poisons in the Water". Published:
October 2006
Oceans around the world have been indiscriminately used as dumping grounds for every conceivable kind of waste — from sewage to garbage to toxic chemicals. It took underwater explorers like Jacques Cousteau to remind us that these wastes do not necessarily get broken down even years after their disposal; they lie at the bottom of the ocean, where they contaminate plant, fish, and eventually, human life.
- Michael Simire's "Why
WTO talks failed – GSI". Published:
September 2006
Officials of the Geneva, Switzerland-based Global Subsidies Initiative have attributed the failure of the World Trade Organisation talks, or the Doha Development Agenda, to a lack of political will.
- Michael Simire's "‘Green’ Stockholm
Hammarby Sea City gets 2015 completion date".
Published: September 4th, 2006.
A hitherto derelict neighbourhood in the back streets of the Swedish capital city of Stockholm is currently undergoing transformation to one of the “greenest” districts on earth, thanks to a combination of initiatives designed to conserve energy, recover resources and clean the environment.
- Newton's "Stockholm: Towards
enery efficient public transportation",
Zambia Daily Mail. Published: September 5th, 2006.
- Darryl D'Monte's "Stockholm
gets the green signal", Mumbai edition of The
Hindustan Times (India). Published:
September 2006.
Any environmentalist who visits Sweden may
be tempted to echo the words of the wide-eyed American journalist who exclaimed,
in the early years of the Soviet Union, “I have seen the future, and
it works!” - Darryl D'Monte's "Sweden’s
green agenda" in InfoChange
News & Features (India), Published:
September 2006.
Ninety-five per cent of all Swedes believe it is important to do something about climate change; two out of every three think it is very important. Sixty Stockholm families have embarked on a novel experiment related to ‘smart consumption’.
- A Swedish intervjew
with Jennifer Igwe in Miljöaktuellt #6
2006 (Sweden). Published: September 2006.
Sluta dumpa era gamla miljöfarliga prylar hos oss. Vi vill inte ha dem, säger Jennifer Igwe, miljöjournalist i Nigeria.
- Michael Simire's "Sustainable
Inner Mongolian cities to emerge under Sino-Swedish initiative".
Published: August 28th, 2006.
Government-level contacts between Sweden and China a few months ago have finally culminated in a joint Sino-Swedish project relating to two pilot cities in the Asian nation. According to officials of the Swedish International Research Institute (or IVL) – promoters of the initiative – the project involves the cities of Hohhot and Wuhai in China’s Inner Mongolia Region.
- Michael Simire's "Allotment
gardens threatened as developers eye ‘prime urban land’".
Published: August 28, 2006.
If developers and land speculators in Stockholm were to have their way, the array of allotment gardens in and around the city would be transformed into blocks of residential and commercial units.
- "Local
Fight to Combat Global Environmental Threats" by Lisa
Monique Soederlindh,
IPS News and the netversion of Terra
Viva Journal (Internation). Published:
August 23, 2006.
Stockholm is cutting the edge on ecologically sustainable development by assessing new local solutions on longstanding global environmental problems.
- "Sweden
plans fossil fuels phase-out" by Michael Simire, Punch
on the web, Nigeria, Published:
August 21, 2006.
In the light of the disturbing climate change phenomenon, the government of Sweden has begun implementing measures to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases and slow down the climate reversal process. The authorities, a couple of months ago, set a new policy target aimed at creating conditions for creating conditions that would halt the country’s dependence on fossil fuels by 2020.
