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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Sustainable Development
- Fri Feb 15 2008
Security Council urged to punish CO2 offenders
The world's small island nations are calling for the UN Security Council to help protect their lands and resources by using its authority to demand reductions of carbon dioxide emissions, and to penalise those nations that fail to comply.
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Sustainable Development
- Wed Feb 13 2008
REDD: Growing money on trees
Deforestation is responsible for one-fifth of annual carbon emissions – more than the entire transport sector. Yet a new global scheme to ‘reduce deforestation’ could end up rewarding the companies and governments that cause it.
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Sustainable Development
- Thu Jan 24 2008
EU renewables policy: doubts and flaws
The European Commission’s draft EU Renewable Energy Directive ignores numerous recent warnings on the environmental and social damage of its proposed 10 per cent target for agrofuel use in the transport sector by 2020.
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Sustainable Development
- Thu Jan 24 2008
EU persists with biofuels
The European Union has decided to maintain a target for increasing the use of biofuels despite mounting concerns that its strategy could worsen global hunger.
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Sustainable Development
/Natural Resources
- Fri Jan 18 2008
Tourism at the end of the world
"Hurry! Hurry! See the polar bears, penguins, Arctic glaciers, small pacific islands before they disappear forever due to global warming" Tourism companies are now using climate change as a marketing tool.
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Sustainable Development
- Fri Jan 11 2008
Bali: a missed opportunity
The UN climate conference in Bali was a missed opportunity to act on the greatest challenge in our generation, with a 'road map' agreed. The sketchy Bali Roadmap was the result of getting the US on board at any cost. By Walden Bello.
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