Speaking at a recent conference in Iceland, David Fig of UCT questioned why SA remained trapped in an undemocratic industrial paradigm which gave primacy to its minerals and energy sector.... Read more
Praful Bidwai is a former Senior Editor at The Times of India and one of South Asia’s most widely published columnists. He’s also the author of the recent book The Politics of Climate Change and the Global Crisis: Mortgaging Our Future. This book is notable in a number of ways, and not just because it contains a long and coherent chapter called &ldquo... Read more
The Bangkok intersessional meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is about to end, with no progress among countries to commit to increasing the level of emission reductions for this decade. Why are the climate talks stalemated and what should be done to break the deadlock?... Read more
Pablo Solón: Why do we need to oppose plans to price nature? What are the alternatives?
Un documento denominado Declaración del Capital Natural (Un compromiso del sector financiero para Río + 20 y más allá) promovido por las Naciones Unidas mediante la Iniciativa Financiera del Programa de para el Medio Ambiente, la Fundación Getulio Vargas de Itamaratí del Brasil y el Global Canopy Programe en el Foro Corporativo por la Sustentabilidad, ha empezado a ser visible en el marco de la... Read more
Two cleavages have emerged in humankind: between classes, those who own capital and those who only possess their labor force; and between values and ways of living, those who profess the faith in the unlimited accumulation of material wealth, ignoring the fact that the planet’s resources are limited, and those who already practice a socio-economy built upon happy sobriety, aware that we can be... Read more
