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on global justice, climate change, cricket, living in Winchester and other trials of patience

Tag: corporate power

Showdown looms on UN Energy Day

Today’s UN Energy Day is the big day for the Sustainable Energy For All initiative at Rio+20. Controversy over the governance structure of the UN’s High-level Group could spoil the party.

Published June 19, 2012
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged corporate power, energy for all, rio+20

Cargill boss loses plot over food speculators

The profits of Cargill, the US agribusiness giant, nosedived in the last quarter. The company blames speculators for distorting food commodities markets. Sound familiar?

Published October 11, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged commodity trading, corporate power

Sarkozy clashes with UN food chief

An apparent rift with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization signals a shaky start to French ambitions for the G20 countries to tackle world food insecurity.

Published January 31, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged corporate power, fao, food security, yahoo

Corporate carbon blackmail is unethical

Big polluting companies in US and Europe are threatening to relocate if the terms of carbon trading schemes meet their disapproval. This is the unacceptable face of corporate blackmail.

Published September 14, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate change, corporate power, globalisation
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A blog by Bill Gunyon

Editor of Tread Softly briefings on global justice. Involved with local renewable energy, Hampshire Hogs Cricket, Winchester Poetry Festival and City of Winchester Trust. Still playing fives and real tennis. Views my own. Please respect copyright.

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Heaviness of being. And poetry
Sluggish in the doldrums of what happens.
Me waiting until I was nearly fifty
To credit marvels. Like the tree-clock of tin cans
The tinkers made. So long for air to brighten,
Time to be dazzled and the heart to lighten.

Seamus Heaney, from Seeing Things