As many of you may have seen on a recent edition of Newsweek magazine (7-14 July), the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) is a joint initiative between Yale’s Center for Law & Environmental Policy and Columbia’s Center for...
Author - Antonio Pasolini
A leading international anti-poverty charity, ActionAid has issued a statement criticizing the recent G8 meeting in Hakkaido, Japan. “The G8 meeting in Japan proved to be nothing but an exercise of escapism from responsibilities towards the...
Geological sequestration or underground storage is one of the proposed solutions for mitigating CO2 emissions. The problem is that in many instances it is simply not feasible, geographically or economically, to bury CO2 underground because of the...
Today is World Environment Day, organised by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the slogan for this year is “CO2, Kick the Habit! Towards a Low Carbon Economy”. New Zealand is this year’s host, with events taking...
One of the most respected discussion programs on the BBC, Newsnight, focused last night on the statement made by Yvi de Boer, the head of the UN climate agency, who recently said: “The best solution would be for us all to become...
