Brazil – we are in your hands
You can’t listen to negotiations for much more than 15 minutes here at the Rio+20 summit before you hear the expression “I am in your hands”. It’s not an expression of love between negotiators, but...
View ArticleThe great G20 bioflop (but at least progress was made on helping the banks....
World leaders agreed today to support European efforts to integrate European banking sectors in a bid to support governments affected by the ongoing Eurozone crisis. Heads of state had earlier gathered...
View ArticleFuture unwanted, but hope lives on
At Rio’s Earth Summit, another chance to take action to address hunger and climate change passes us by.Friday marked the end of the Rio +20 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Given the low expectations,...
View ArticleG20 ignores international organisations’ warnings on biofuels
With continued instability on the financial markets dominating the 2011 G20 leader’s summit, it should come as little surprise that other important issues have been swept aside.One of these is the...
View ArticleG20 and Biofuels
By Clare Coffey, ActionAid UK.Most experts are now agreed that the expansion of land devoted to raising crops used in biofuel production has been a significant factor in high and volatile food prices...
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