Sustainable Development
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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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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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