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The Montreal Protocol demonstrated that nations can come together to successfully design and implement effective environmental legislation. The general public did not originally accept the idea of a hole in the ozone ...
Africa’s so-called ‘resource curse’ is a paradox that has endured. How is it that states enjoying a rich bounty in oil, gas or minerals can end up with worse economic growth ...
Last October, the Deepwater Project, led by Nobel laureate Martin Beniston, was the winner of the first ever GLOBAL+5 Innovation Award. Thanks to support from the University of Geneva, the Dudley ...
The French-led non-profit organization Tara Expeditions has been organizing missions aboard the research schooner Tara for the past nine years. Usually traversing the world’s oceans to learn more about the impact ...
Disasters Without Borders, John Hannigan, Polity Press, £13.95. As international attention on natural disasters increases, John Hannigan examines the latest trend in international politics to resolve“borderless” issues. Conceived as a ...
Photo: During the afternoon plenary with Naoko Ishii, GEF CEO and Chairperson; Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director; Tim Kasten, UNEP; INC Chair Fernando Lugris, Uruguay; Jacob Duer, INC Team Coordinator, UNEP; Masa ...
When Galileo Galilei claimed that the earth revolved around the sun instead of celestial subjects revolving around the earth it broke away from conventional knowledge. This eventually led to a new level ...
The fifth and final round of negotiations on the establishment of an international mercury convention opened today in Geneva. The final meeting of the International Negotiating Committee on Mercury (INC5) is taking ...
Science has long proven that the probability of winning at betting games is usually infinitesimal. People still play. The same applies to environmental science, which has demonstrated that our current ways of ...
November has been a dark month for those still optimistic about climate change adaptation and mitigation. The latest to sound the alarm is the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). In its Emission Gap ...
The World Climate Summit, Doha, Qatar, December 1-2, 2012 is the largest international business and finance conference during the UNFCCC COP18. The high-level summit supports an active community of global business, finance ...
Water, David L. Feldman, Polity $39.95. Water is required by every living thing, yet a growing number of people face difficulties accessing it. Climate change, urbanization, pollution, energy use, agriculture, population ...
The shaping of potentially one of the greatest multilateral funding mechanisms of the coming decade is silently under way. At the UN’s Climate Change Conference in Cancun in 2010, world leaders ...
The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations, Michael L. Ross, Princeton University Press, $ 29.95. With the current high oil prices, The Oil Curse provides an interesting approach ...
The Crisis in Energy Policy, by John M. Deutch, Harvard University Press, €22.50, $24.95. John Deutch has worked for 35 years on energy matters, as a government official, a university ...
At the UN Conference on Sustainable Development held in Rio de Janeiro, which ends tomorrow, more than 50,000 participants from civil societies or the private sector, 191 speakers, 81 heads of ...
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