Sustainable Development
- Thu Apr 10 2008
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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Human Rights
- Fri Apr 04 2008
Huancayo: from resistance to public-public partnership
The Andean city of Huancayo has shown that a strong local movement of citizens and workers can expand the struggle against privatisation into reclaiming public water services.
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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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Natural Resources
- Wed Apr 02 2008
Canada foils UN water plan
Canada emerged as the pivotal nation behind recent manoeuvres to block the United Nations Human Rights Council from recognizing water as a basic human right, according to international observers.
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Biodiversity
- Mon Mar 31 2008
UN: No agreement on liability regarding GMOs, another meeting planned
Negotiations under the UN Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to establish an international regime for liability and redress for damage caused by genetically modified organisms (GMOs) failed to conclude as mandated. The fifth meeting of the Working Group on the liability regime was held in Cartagena on 12-19 March, in the city in Colombia that gave its name to the Biosafety Protocol.
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Biodiversity
- Thu Mar 27 2008
Biodiversity and land reforms: a neglected linkage
Agricultural biodiversity was a key item on the agenda of the just concluded meeting in Rome of the scientific and technical advisory body (SBSTTA) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and yet this meeting too sidestepped the critical issue of reforming the agricultural land tenure as a means to enhance agrobiodiversity
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Health
- Wed Mar 26 2008
Organizations from Over 30 Countries Reject Agreement of Water Companies
Nearly 130 social organizations from around the world that work on the human right to water sent a letter to the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, rejecting the so called “The Chief Executive Officers (CEO) Water Mandate”.
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Biodiversity
- Tue Mar 25 2008
The genetically modified food gamble
The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) this year once again highlighted that land grown with genetically modified (GM) crops have increased and claimed that these crops are the answer to reducing world hunger and poverty.
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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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