By Making It on 6 August, 2010
There is growing recognition that the potential contribution of the private sector to development far outstrips the potential impact of aid.
Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged Africa, banking sector, climate, climate change, developing countries, development, Fair Trade, Issue 3, microenterprises, microfinance, Millennium Development Goals, offset, Overseas Development Institute, poverty reduction, private sector, social responsibility, Washington Consensus
By Making It on 30 March, 2010
Helge Lund, President and CEO of Statoil, illustrates the growing importance of new carbon capture and storage technologies.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged carbon, carbon capture, CCS, change, climate, co2, development, emissions, energy, European Carbon Dioxide Test Centre at Mongstad, financing development, Helge Lund, industry, international energy agency, Issue 2, policy, Statoil, storage
By Making It on 30 March, 2010
According to Kandeh K. Yumkella and Leena Srivastava, energy access is the ‘missing’ MDG that will end the poverty trap.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Africa, Ban Ki-moon, business, climate, climate change, demand-side policies, development, development programme, Director-General, financing, GHG mitigation, Global, IEA, India, Industrial Development Organization, International, international energy agency, IPCC, Issue 2, MDG, Millennium Development Goals, NGO, policy, poverty reduction, private sector, renewable energy, Srivastava, TERI, UN, UNDP, UNIDO, United Nations, Yumkella
By Making It on 28 March, 2010
In 2004, Bianca Jagger received the Right Livelihood Award, known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’, for her “long-standing commitment and dedicated campaigning over a wide range of issues of human rights, social justice, and environmental protection”. She is the founder and chair of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation.
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The experience of participating at the Copenhagen [...]
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum | Tagged 2009, action, BASIC Group, Bianca Jagger, China, climate, climate change, climate treaty, co2 emissions, Conference of Parties in Copenhagen, COP15, Copenhagen, deforestation, development, Issue 2, Norway, policy, pollution, REDD, United Nations, United States, Vapour money
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