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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.

Published June 19, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged food security, foreign aid, G20, yahoo

Unfriend the 1000 economists

What could have possessed advocates of the Financial Transaction Tax to engage 1000 economists to sign a letter for the G20 meeting?

Published April 18, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged financial transaction tax, G20

G20 ministers reject calls for climate justice

Proposals for a global financial transaction tax to help the development of poor countries affected by climate change have been ignored by the world’s leading finance ministers.

Published February 21, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate justice, financial transaction tax, G20, yahoo

G20 summit: excluded African voices

The G20 London summit is unrepresentative of the poorest countries who will be most affected by decisions about the world economy. Here’s a selection of what African leaders have to say.

Published March 30, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged africa, delta, G20, global divide
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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