Could the Green Climate Fund conceivably support a programme which would increase greenhouse gas emissions?
Green economics unsettles Rio+20 prospects
Separate UN conferences held in Europe last week reached very different conclusions about the optimum speed of transition to a green, low carbon world economy.
Farms and forests must join up their plans
The global food crisis and the future of tropical forests have recently been covered in separate research and advocacy reports. It’s time to join up the two subjects.
Addis treads in Chicago footsteps
The Ethiopia Commodities Exchange is a brave initiative to hook up farmers to customers they would never find within narrow local markets.
G20 urged to deliver pledges for world hunger
Evidence continues to emerge that the release of international donor funds to support global food security is matching neither the scale of the promises nor the urgency of the situation.
Getting better maybe
Fashionable selections of development success stories should be qualified by the reality that data collection in Africa is slow and unreliable.
Stop pussyfooting on climate refugees
Why does no one challenge the UN High Commissioner for Refugees when he lifts the drawbridge of the 1951 Convention against intrusion by climate refugees?
Child labour and youth unemployment pose dilemmas
As global youth unemployment hits record levels, adolescents are increasingly presented with a choice between undertaking hazardous work or no work at all.
Hansen strikes fear into Nansen conference
Dr James Hansen had a serious message inbetween the apocalpytic scenarios of his presentation at the Nansen Conference in Oslo.
Right to food lost in Oxfam campaign
Throughout Oxfam’s new GROW campaign on global hunger the right to food is presumed rather than reiterated.