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Wall Street meltdown: Time for real "better regulation" and a floor price for oil

16 September, 2008

Economy Nobel prize winner Joseph Stiglitz has the accurate analysis of this week’s meltdown of the financial markets in the Guardian: “The new low in the financial crisis, which has prompted comparisons with the 1929 Wall Street crash, is the fruit of a pattern of dishonesty on the part of financial institutions, and incompetence on… » read more

Posted by Willy De Backer

energy security, financial crisis, global governance, sustainable development

European Commission blind to sustainability challenges of globalisation

15 April, 2008

Social Europe can deal with the challenges posed by globalisation according to a new report written for a European Commission conference on 16 April. But the report fails to mention most of the social impacts of climate change, the looming energy crunch (including high energy and food prices and their social consequences) or growing water… » read more

Posted by Willy De Backer

Climate change, global governance, Globalisation, sustainability, sustainable development

Another Cassandra call? WEF’s pessimistic outlook for 2008

10 January, 2008

A system-wide financial crisis, food insecurity, supply chain disruptions and climate and energy chaos are the four major global risks for the coming year according to a report released on 9 January by the World Economic Forum. The report “Global Risks 2008” comes two weeks before the yearly WEF meeting in Davos and highlights most… » read more

Posted by Willy De Backer

Climate change, energy security, global governance, sustainable development

A moral right to help kill the planet? The climate change-poverty conundrum

14 November, 2007

There are a lot of moral problems linked to the issue of climate change. One of them shows itself clearly in a recent report published by international development agency Christian Aid. Its 19-pages “Truly Inconvenient” report looks at ways to “tackle poverty and climate change at once” and concludes that developed countries like the US and the EU… » read more

Posted by Willy De Backer

Climate change, global governance, Global Warming, sustainability

Only 7 EU countries join International Carbon Action Partnership

29 October, 2007

There is some good and some bad news about the International Carbon Action Partnership (ICAP) which was launched in Lisbon on 29 October. First the good news: the new international forum links up the EU Commission and seven member states (France, Germany, the UK, Italy, the Netherlands, Ireland and Portugal) with eleven US and Canadian… » read more

Posted by Willy De Backer

carbon trading, Climate change, Countries of Europe, European Union, global governance

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