By Making It on 1 December, 2012
Maria Eitel, CEO of the Nike Foundation, talks about The Girl Effect campaign.
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged adolescent girls, Adolescent Girls Initiative, Berhane Hewan, Binti Pamoja, developing world, early marriage, éducation, Ethiopia, Kibera, Liberia, maria eitel, Nike Foundation, poverty alleviation, Rahim Kanani, Sub-Saharan Africa, The Girl Effect, World Bank
By Making It on 1 December, 2012
Hester Eisenstein on how global elites use women’s labour to exploit the world.
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged Angela Merkel, assembly operations, Bangladesh, capitalist exploitation, Caracol Industrial Park, cheap labour, China, economic empowerment of women, EPZs, Ester Boserup, export processing, Feminism Seduced, feminist, Ha-Joon Chang, Haiti, hester eisenstein, Hillary Clinton, hot topic, industrial policy, international financial institutions, Japan, Keynesian, La Pietra Coalition, maquiladoras, Naila Kabeer, Nicholas Kristof, Nike Foundation, patriarchal controls, Paul Krugman, Republic of Korea, Sae-A Trading, sweatshops, UNIDO, women, young women
By Making It on 15 November, 2012
Nnimmo Bassey claims that in Nigeria the authorities’ efforts to curb gas flaring are being thwarted by the big oil companies.
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged AGIP, Bayelsa State, Chevron, clean development mechanism, Delta State, environmental protection agency, Environmental Rights Action, Etelebou, ExxonMobil, Friends of the Earth International, gas flaring, Gbaran-Ubie, greenhouse gases, health impacts, human rights, Imiringi (Kolo Creek), JK4, Kwale, Making It magazine, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Nigerian Joint Military Taskforce, Nigeria’s Directorate of Petroleum Resources, Nnimmo Bassey, Oben, oil companies. oil fields, Ondewari, Opolo-Epie, Ossiama Creek, Ovade-Ogharefe, Pan Ocean, Petroleum Industry Bill, Shell, UNIDO, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, West African Gas Pipeline project, World Bank
By Making It on 24 February, 2012
Corinne Schoch asks if militarizing climate change might harm those communities most affected by the problem
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged Africa, agricultural yields, Al Gore, Ban Ki-moon, Barack Obama, climate change, Climate Change Group, Cold War, Corinne Schoch, Darfur crisis, development, economic downturn, economy, environment, global security community, green industry, HIV/AIDS, human security, humanitarian responsibility, IIED, Industrial Development Organization, institutions, International Institute for Environment and Development, international security, IPCC, issue 9, Making It, migration, militarizing climate change, NATO, Nicolas Sarkozy, our low-carbon future, policy, political instability, poor governance, population, productivity, resource efficiency, resources, social cohesion, sustainable industry, UN Security Council, UNDP, UNIDO, United Nations, water resources
By Making It on 5 December, 2011
Richard Heinberg and Matthew Lockwood debate the “end of growth”, and what lies at the foundation of a post-carbon, green economy
Posted in All Posts, Hot Topic | Tagged Adapting to Our New Economic Reality, c02, carbon emissions, climate change, constant growth, de-carbonized economy, debt, developed countries, developing countries, division of labour, economic crisis, economic expansion, economic growth is effectively over, economists, emissions reductions, environmental damage, executives, gender equality, gender issue, global economy, government cover-up, grandchildren's future, green growth, Industrial Development, industrial revolution, infrastructure, innovation, investment, irreversible climate change effects, issue 8, limited national resources, low-carbon technologies, Making It magazine, Matthew Lockwood, no recovery, politics, Post Carbon Institute, Richard Heinberg, sustainability, the economy is recovering, the end of growth, transition away from fossil fuels, UK's Institute of Development Studies, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, women, world warming
By Making It on 26 August, 2011
Governments are re-evaluating their nuclear plans, but are their fears misplaced? Chris Goodall and José Etcheverry are both environmentalists, but are divided on nukes
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged Chris Goodall, climate change, creativity, debate, Denmark, economy, electricity, environmentalist, feed-in tariffs, fossil fuels, fourth-generation nuclear, Fukushima, germany, global warming, grid, hydropower, Industrial Development, industrialization, industry, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, International, International Renewable Energy Agency, IPCC, IRENA, Japan, José Etcheverry, low carbon energy, Making It magazine, mining, nuclear disaster, nuclear energy, reactor, reliance, renewable energy policies, renewables, solar, solar panels, tsunami, turbine, UK, UNIDO, United Nation, water, wind, wind power, zero-carbon
By Making It on 16 June, 2011
Experts from the Breakthrough Institute outline the importance and implications of the rebound effect
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged agribusiness, agriculture, backfire, Breakthrough Institute, climate risk, consumption, cooling, cost, direct, emerging economies, emissions reduction, energy efficiency, energy saving, global climate, global emissions, globalization, goods, government, greenhouse gases, Harry Saunders, heating, hot topic, IEA, Industrial Development Organization, industrial processes, industry, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, international development agencies, international energy agency, IPCC, issue 6, Jesse Jenkins, Jevons' Paradox, linear, literature, macroeconomic, magazine, Making It, McKinsey, Michael Shellenberger, money, ngos, policies, private sector, productivity, products, rebound effects, research, review, services, stabilization, sustainable growth, Ted Nordhaus, transportation, UNIDO, United Nations, usage, world's emerging economies
By Making It on 16 June, 2011
Energy efficiency leads to increased productivity and economic output, reduced demand, reduced energy bills and an enhanced security of energy supply
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged agribusiness, Asia, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Asian, behavior, California, challenges, clean, climate change, co2, complex, consciousness, decarbonization, developing countries, economic growth, effectiveness, emerging markets, employment, Energy Emergence: Rebound and Backfire as Emergent Phenomena, energy supply, environment, Europe, European, fossil fuel, GDP, Ghana, global partnership, globalization, Industrial Development Organization, industry, issue 6, Japan, jurisdiction, Making It magazine, Marianne Moscoso-Osterkorn, measures, Philippines, planet, policy, policymakers, rebound effect, REEEP, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership, technology, Thailand, The Breakthrough Institute, theory, UNIDO, United Nations, United States of America, US, USA
By Making It on 1 March, 2011
What the aviation industry is doing to stem the rising CO2 levels that lead to climate change
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged Africa, air transport action group, air transport industry, airspace management, ATAG, Avaiation and Environment Summit, biofuel, carbon neutral, challenge, China, civil aviation, climate change, co2 emissions, commitment, design, development, economic activity, efficiency, executive director, fleet renewal, fuel, Global, goods, government, growth, India, Industrial Development Organization, infrastructure, latin america, Making It, Middle East, mobility, operational improvement, Paul Steele, people, policy, policymakers, sustainability, target, technology, trade, UNIDO, United Nations, worldwide alliance
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