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

Tag: development finance

Diary clash for world food and biodiversity talks

Negotiations on the UN Convention on Biological Diversity may stumble over finance. World food talks in Rome in the same week have similar problems. Agriculture and biodiversity are closely linked. Why have such separate meetings?

Published October 15, 2012
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged biodiversity, CBD COP11, development finance, food security

What if there had been no banking crisis?

Climate change and food security negotiations are stumbling over the reluctance of rich countries to stump up the costs. They have thrown all their resources at a bunch of bankrupt banks.

Published November 2, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged banks, development finance, economic crisis
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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