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     The latest issue: AUTUMN 2006

The last issue
AUTUMN 2006
Focus: Trade, Finance and Justice for Development

COMING SOON - Winter 2006/2007
Focus: Energy Security

     News

12-12-2006
Scientists Predict Carbon Dioxide Emissions Will Reduce Density of Earth's Outermost Atmosphere by 2017


Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels will produce a 3 percent reduction in the density of Earth's outermost atmosphere by 2017

12-12-2006
Climate change direction the right one


Business will welcome the fact the Government has extended its energy policy horizon to several decades.

11-12-2006
Alps 'warmer than any time in 1,300 years'


EUROPE'S Alpine region is going through its warmest period in 1,300 years, a leading climatologist has said.

11-12-2006
It's official: global warming is guff


AT LAST, evidence that global warming is a load of hot air. Cow flatulence has attracted the attention of ministers after emerging as an environmental menace to rival factory chimneys, Chelsea tractors and cheap air travel.

11-12-2006
Somali children bear brunt of disaster misery


Whimpering quietly as she is placed in a sling to be weighed at a feeding station in Wajid in flood-stricken southern Somalia, emaciated two-year-old Habiba Somo peers listlessly from sunken eyes.

 

     In this issue


NATURE, WAR AND PEACE

Important developments in the last few months invite us to revisit some of the regions and challenges covered in our last issue (Lebanon, Aceh, Darfur).


ERADICATING POVERTY

Who is paying the price? Who is being left behind?


THE DEADLOCKED DOHA ROUND

Recent movements in the WTO negotiations
by Pascal Lamy
Director-General of the World Trade Organization


Why World Bank financing does not bring Sustainable Development


by Janneke Bruil


PRIVATIZING FINANCE FOR DEVELOPMENT


by Alexei Kireyev, IMF


The future of development finance

The world is in the midst of a great experiment on the way in which the rich world aids the poor world.
by Richard G.A. Feachem and Oliver J. Sabot


THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS AND RICH COUNTRIES

Generating the political will for better development policies
by Salil Shetty and Mandeep Bains


DROP THE DEBT!

Why we must cancel unjust and unpayable poor country debts
by Trisha Rogers


Technical assistance on trade and regulatory policies

The case for trilateral cooperation
by Pradeep S. Mehta


CITIES & SPACES

The Global City: strategic site, new frontier
by Saskia Sassen
Implementing the Kyoto Protocol: Real and imaginary opportunities for Belarus
by A. J. Grebenkov


DISCUSSION CLUB: FROM THE POLITICS OF FEAR, TO THE CULTURE OF PEACE

Leonid Gruzdilovich
Federico Mayor
Ismail Serageldin
Awraham Soetendorp


FRONTLINE

The organic and fair trade movements: fostering global ecological sustainability and social justice
by Laura T. Raynolds
Corporate leaders join the battle to save the Great Barrier Reef
by Sarah Foots


INNOVATION

Doing the (red) thing in the fight against aids in Africa
Us and Them – Giving and Receiving – Rich and Poor
by Jamie Catto


GREEN CROSS NEWS



  • Earth Dialogues Brisbane: Calling for People Power to Save the Planet

  • Global Green USA and Brad Pitt announce winner of sustainable design competition for
    New Orleans

  • Green Cross France: Solidarity for People and Water

  • Green Cross Italy: Students Present Visions of “Energy for Peace”

  • Green Cross Ukraine: Welcomes Children of Chernobyl
    to Therapy Camps

  • OPTIMIST ALERT!



OPTIMIST ALERT



FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Time for something different by James Gustave Speth

 


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