Sustainable Development
- Fri May 02 2008
2nd international conference on sustainable tourism
From May 12th to 15th 2008, the Second International Conference on Sustainable Tourism (ICST) will take place in Fortaleza – Brazil. The Conference will attract about 500 participants to discuss community based tourism as a strategy to encourage popular traditional culture, environmental protection, local development and fair trade in tourism.
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Sustainable Development
- Tue Apr 29 2008
Exposing the inadequacies of carbon trading
Carbon trading and offsetting distracts attention from the wider, systemic changes that need to be taken to achieve a low-carbon economy argues Kevin Smith.
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Sustainable Development
- Fri Apr 25 2008
Grand Inga: leaving Africans in the dark?
The potential to profit from the world's largest dam project – the Grand Inga hydropower scheme, proposed for the Congo River – drew bankers, engineering firms and industrial interests to London in April 2008 to discuss financing for the $80 billion project. African civil society has been raising concerns about the project for some time, but was blocked from attending the London event.
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Sustainable Development
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Bangkok talks conclude with 2008 work programme
The Bangkok climate talks under the UN Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) ended after midnight on Friday 4 April by adopting two conclusions.
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Sustainable Development
- Wed Apr 09 2008
Climate change: will societies bend, or snap in the storm?
A new risk-analysis of the negative consequences of climate change warns of potential "devastation and violence (worldwide) jeopardising national and international security to a new degree."
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Sustainable Development
- Thu Apr 03 2008
World bank climate profiteering
The World Bank has seized upon the immense challenges climate change poses to humanity and is now front and center in the complicated, international world of carbon finance. It can turn the dirtiest carbon credits into gold.
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Sustainable Development
- Tue Mar 25 2008
Climate change deepening world water crisis
When UN SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki moon addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last January, his primary focus was not on the impending global economic recession but on the world's growing water crisis.
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Sustainable Development
- Tue Mar 11 2008
Market is heating up the globe
One way to look at the climate problem is through the lens of the market. If you do, only one conclusion is possible - the climate change problem is a massive market failure, a failure of market mechanisms to factor in future costs of a change in climate in real time prices.
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Sustainable Development
- Mon Mar 03 2008
Warmer world may mean less fish
Climate change is emerging as the latest threat to the world's dwindling fish stocks a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) suggests.
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Sustainable Development
- Fri Feb 15 2008
UN General Assembly opens climate change thematic debate
The United Nations General Assembly opened a three-day thematic debate on climate change on Monday 11 February 2008, with the UN Secretary-General saying that a climate deal in Copenhagen (in 2009) is his top priority.
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