Climate change and the population 'bomb': a debate not to shy away from
Fri Nov 20 2009 - Source:
Sacsis
When people think of the impact of population on climate change, they tend to glance towards China and India. But, their carbon emissions are four times lower than Europe and the US. This debate comes in times when the UN just released its World Population report 2009.
G8 countries show total lack of political will to address the global food crisis
The blatant absence of the heads of states of the G8 countries in the World Food Summit, held in Rome from 16 to 18th of November, was one of the key causes of the total failure of this summit.
APC perspective on the future of the Internet Governance Forum
The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is of the view that the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) has fulfilled its core mandate in terms of paragraph 72 of the Tunis Agenda on the Information Society to constitute a space for multi-stakeholder policy dialogue on internet governance.
To grab, or to invest
Wed Nov 18 2009 - Source:
IPS
The World Food Security Summit in Rome this week opened up a dispute between what may be investment in farmland to some, but is seen as land grab by others.
