Is not going to impose its standards on other countries but the e. U. Does have a duty to respond to the increasing concern among you consumers about the impact that their consumption is having on forests on the people who depend on those forests and with this communication with this action plan that it published this week it shows that the e. U. Is for the 1st time willing to bring in new options that could be regulator that would ensure that products that are being placed on the market from countries such as brazil would not be linked to human rights abuses. Or different station all right thank you so much for your thoughts on that. Thank you. South African Business is a begun paying a carbon tax as it tries to fight Climate Change one of africas biggest economies is hoping the move will help force big to change. Has more from me in the province. South africa is a continent of most industrialized economy and one of africas worst polluters its economy relies heavily on coal a dirty fo
Economies which relies heavily on coal which is trying to tackle air pollution well tell you how. And between the rock and a hard place the act of throwing his weight behind an indigenous cause in hawaii on stay with us. We got more right on the cots for japan over the next couple of days we have a Tropical Storm its a weak one but its awful storm nevertheless just pushing up towards honshu it will make its way across southern and eastern parts of kona shit thats because through the next couple of days 31 celsius in tokyo another hot and humid day to come here on saturday tend to increase and humid as we go on through the weekend as that wet weather starts to drive its way in much of honshu saying some pretty big downpours not too concerned about the winds but the right could cause some localized flooding libya if you shop shows to across the Korean Peninsula come across into northern parts of china lossy dry wanted to erode showers here the showers a little more widespread across sout
A conflict going on all and in my view simply come on and. Theyre used to make money for people who have to pay their passage. Through servitude in effect a little bit in the high seas is not a happy situation. Turning away from it or banning boats from rescuing people are certainly not the way to go the u. N. Refugee agency estimates that 6000 other refugees and migrants are being held in Libyan Detention Centers even though they havent committed a crime yet they remain highly at risk of getting caught in the conflict or dying at sea and are schapelle aljazeera. Sanctions on north korea appear to be having a devastating effect on the economy its shrunk by the most in 21 years thats according to figures compiled by south koreas central bank but it doesnt appear to be having an impact on north koreas military ambitions on young says missile test this week or a warning to its neighbor from mcbride reports from seoul the figures provide the stark is devore dence yet of how sanctions again
More you know badly injured or maimed for life and really the outside world paid very very little attention and certainly not sustained attention and certainly attention thats not making any difference or bringing over that resolution any closer review this collective shrug this lack of International Action to try to stop all of this do you think this is because of russias veto powers on the Security Council or is or does it go beyond that. Well certainly is Security Councils been you know effectively paralyzed on syria its had 8 years to to try and sort out this this problem and its failed and you know there are 5 states with the to the new year in takes one to be to block any kind of resolution so as Curator Council has not succeeded but i think its not just the Security Council is really the powerful states you mentioned russia but the other powerful states also could have influence on the situation. And they simply havent succeeded in making that that count and what were calling fo
Towards the worlds 2nd largest ice sheet which is essential to the Global Climate system and then cause record melting this will then cause sea levels to rise even further and the weather to become even more unstable already this month greenland has lost the ice equivalent of 64000000. 00 swimming pools in surface melt alone well earlier we spoke to ruth mottram whos a climate scientist at the denmark Meterological Institute and she says a clear link can be drawn between Climate Change and the increasing rates of ice melt in the arctic. We know that the arctic is warm so much more than the rest of the world we have processes called the arctic have that occasion so that Climate Change is felt much more strongly in the arctic than it is here even in europe right now and so when we get these big melting events happening they tend to be more extreme than they were in the past at the moment were not where very close to our rep or to melt year 2012 were getting very close to matching that fr