This report, prepared for Save the Children, is based on the outcomes of a series of dialogues with 8 countries that have already begun exploring how to...
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Time to Deliver the Post-2015 Agenda’s Promises to Children
The post-2015 agenda has a clear vision for children: the protection, survival and development of all children to their full potential. Four resonant and...
What Happens Now? Time to deliver the post-2015 development agenda
This is the third in a series of What Happens Now? papers from the Center on International Cooperation. Like the previous papers, it provides a guide for all...
Five Ways the Co-Facilitators Have Made the Post-2015 Targets Worse
What was once a storm whipped up around the question of whether the world needs 17 sustainable development goals and 169 targets has now degenerated into a...
OECD States of Fragility Report – Meeting Post-2015 Ambitions
This afternoon, in New York, the OECD is launching its States of Fragility 2015 report which explores how new sustainable development goals and targets (SDGs)...
Which countries can broker a deal on the post-2015 development agenda?
When the High-level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda was announced, Alex Evans laid out a useful typology of the five kinds of people you find on...
In post-2015, as in life – it’s safety first
Nobel Peace Prize winner, Malala Yousafzai is exceptional. She fearlessly brought the campaign for girls’ education to the centre of the world stage. There is...
Post-2015 Means of Implementation: What Are We Trying to Win?
Working draft of a paper by Alex Evans on potential elements of a global political deal on 'means of implementation' for the post-2015 development agenda...
The political deal on post-2015 ‘means of implementation’
The post-2015 agenda is at a turning point, with the intense discussions of the last year about Goals and targets giving way to a new focus on how the world...
North-South, South-South, Triangular Cooperation, and ICT for Development to the implementation of the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Presentation by David Steven to the High-Level Event of the United Nations General Assembly on Contributions of North-South, South-South, Triangular...
Ending poverty through climate action in the Post-2015 development agenda
The post-2015 development agenda offers an extraordinary opportunity to tackle the world’s two most pressing challenges—poverty and climate change. A recent...
Implementing the Post-2015 Development Agenda in the United States
In a new report from the Center for American Progress, we explore the implications of implementing the post-2015 development agenda in the United States....
John Maynard Keynes on the post-2015 agenda
In the same spirit of hopeful ideas for a new year as Ben's excellent post on inequality, herewith some musing of JM Keynes's about "economic possibilities...
The Post-2015 Agenda: 3 thoughts on Latin America, and 1 on the Caribbean
Late last week, New York University’s Center on International Cooperation published A Laboratory for Sustainable Development? Latin America, the Caribbean and...
10 Tips for a Bold & Ambitious Post-2015 Development Agenda
Climate negotiations in Warsaw made faltering steps towards a possible 2015 agreement. Trade talks in Bali were salvaged at the last minute. As global...
A Laboratory for Sustainable Development? Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Post-2015 Development Agenda
The Latin American and Caribbean region has a unique opportunity to exercise leadership and influence over the post-2015 development debate. The region's...
A Global Partnership for the post-2015 Agenda
Debate about what new Goals should succeed the Millennium Development Goals after their 2015 deadline is now well underway. But there has so far been much...
Delivering the Post-2015 Development Agenda: options for a new Global Partnership
What should be the key elements of a new Global Partnership to help deliver the post-2015 development agenda - and which of them look feasible in the current...
How to defuse the twin climate finance / post-2015 finance for development timebombs (updated)
Whether it's at the climate summit currently underway in Warsaw (from where I'm writing this post) or at two key meetings happening in NYC next month on the...
A Post-2015 Calendar
A non-comprehensive compilation of key political moments for the post-2015 development agenda between now and 2016. Extracted from a forthcoming CIC report on...
What Happens Now? – The Post-2015 Agenda After the High-level Panel
Briefing paper by Alex Evans and David Steven that explores the outlook for the post-2015 development agenda over the next two years and makes seven...
A Fox News EXCLUSIVE on post-2015
This just in from Fox News: EXCLUSIVE: The United Nations is planning to create a sweeping new set of “sustainable development goals” Um... and we'll have...
Why diplomats enjoy the UN General Assembly (hint: it’s not the post-2015 development agenda)
Thank you, New York Post, for finally bursting the UN General Assembly bubble: Midtown jiggle joint Flashdancers has seen a lot of action thanks to the United...
Emerging economies’ dangerous game on the post-2015 development agenda
The internal dynamics of the G77 group of developing countries are shifting rapidly on both climate change and the post-2015 international development agenda,...
Early reactions to the High-level Panel Post-2015 report
Below, you can find my summary of the High-level Panel report on what should replace the Millennium Development Goals. Here's a summary of reaction to its...
Post-2015: is there any point?
This month, the UN High-level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda moves in to the home straight, with its report due to be submitted to the...
The future of global poverty: What if there were multiple horizons for aid post-2015?
A Brookings paper out this week (here) does something a set of papers have sought to do recently - that is make projections about the future of global...
What do people want a post-2015 agenda to do for them?
Here, my post-2015 friends, is the very beginnings of an answer. The 'MY World' survey, available through the internet, by mobile phone, and in the...
Goals in a Post-2015 Development Framework
An options brief by David Steven, published by New York University's Center on International Cooperation and funded by the UN Foundation, on the role that...
Kate Raworth at the RSA – must-watch re post-2015 and sustainability economics
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqJL-cM8gb4[/youtube]
Post-2015: where does sustainability fit in? (Updated)
Climate, scarcity and sustainability are among the most important – and politically challenging - elements of the post-2015 development agenda on what should...
Climate, Scarcity and Sustainability in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
What should sustainability advocates aim for in the post-2015 international development agenda – and how should they go about it?
Thoughts from the post-2015 High-Level panel meeting in London
Just in case anyone missed it (but how...), last week was the second meeting of the UN Secretary General's High Level Panel on the Post-2015 agenda. This is...
Post-2015: Possible solutions to the MDG/SDG puzzle
I was doing some thinking on possible ways that the post-2015 MDG/SDG scenarios might play out after the launch of the SDG process at Rio+20 last week. I've...
Post-2015: What role for business?
There’s a consensus that any post-2015 global development framework should have more to say about the role of the private sector than the MDGs have done. But what does that actually mean in practice? This new report from the Overseas Development Institute explores some options for how the private sector might be represented in and contribute to a new set of global goals for development.
Open Letter to the Co-Chairs of the UN High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Agenda
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon announced on Wednesday that Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and British...
Christmas tree, jigsaw or bullseye? A rough guide to post-2015 frameworks
The last week or so has been truly post-2015-tastic, not least here on GD. There are so many ideas flying around that it’s hard to untangle what people are...
Who should be on the post-2015 Panel?
And now for the fun part of thinking about the UN's forthcoming High Level Panel on the post-2015 agenda: who should feature on its membership? As well as...
Putting inequality into the post-2015 picture
There’s a growing consensus among the countries, UN agencies and civil society organisations involved in discussions on the post-2015 development agenda that...
What would a post-2015 agreement on development actually be for?
Pardon the existential angst, but as I'm about to spend the next few years of my life obsessing about what comes after the MDGs, and as the same question is...
Creating Consensus on a post-2015 framework for development
Any global framework for development which is agreed after 2015 will be a political deal between states. This paper looks at recent trends in policy and politics in emerging economies and traditional donors to assess where a consenus might lie. It suggests some principles for a post-2015 agreement which emerge from recent policy developments
A post-2015 Global Development Agreement: why, who what?
Paper from ODI and UNDP, authored by Claire Melamed and Andy Sumner, summarising the evidence on the impact of the MDGs, and looking at current trends in poverty and in global governance that will affect the shape and the scope of any future agreement on global development.
Towards More Equal and Resilient Cities Post-COVID-19
What path we take post-COVID-19 will depend in large part on how the world’s cities change. The Long Crisis scenarios are a timely and helpful reminder that nothing is settled: our future is up for grabs. A better future can only be won by equipping and empowering cities to drive a green, inclusive recovery post-COVID-19.
International aid – a way to show post-Brexit Britain hasn’t turned its back on the world
On his last day in Downing Street, David Cameron said one of his proudest achievements was to honour the commitment to spend 0.7% of gross national income on...
The Future is Not Good Enough: Business As Usual After 2015
Background paper by Alex Evans and David Steven, written for the High-level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, and published as part of the Panel's...
After 2015 – the High Level Panel reports
The Secretary General’s High Level Panel has published its report (download here) on the post-2015 development agenda – here’s quick review of what it’s come...
Goals after 2015
As the High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda meets in Liberia, New York University’s Center on International Cooperation has published a new...
Chairs of UN Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on post-MDGs announced
We've known for a while that David Cameron will be one of the co-chairs of the UN Secretary-General's panel on what comes after the MDGs, when they...
Effective Activism in a Time of Coronavirus: what are we learning six months in?
Leading in difficult times is unbelievably hard, but we will all be better at it if we share what we’re learning and invite others to challenge our thinking and contribute their own. In that spirit, here are the four things that I think are emerging as lessons about effective activism in a time of coronavirus.
A Blueprint for Black Lives Matter in the Development Sector
Racism is rooted in a combination of prejudice and power, and action to combat racism must address both. The development sector is plagued by problems on both dimensions, but the Black Lives Matter moment offers an opportunity to change course. So far, however, development organisations have focused more on prejudice rather than confronting inequalities of power. To do more, we should adapt models from elsewhere to our own challenge. So here’s my four-point blueprint for Black Lives Matter in the development sector.
#BuildaBridgetoBetter: Recommendations to Drive Pandemic Responses
Disasters have a way of focusing the mind, focusing our energies, and harnessing attention. The unfolding disaster that is the coronavirus pandemic is no different: the world is united in our focus on this singular enemy. What is different is that this pandemic is not a one-off event; this is not a storm that we will easily ‘ride out’. There is no clear blue sky on the horizon.
The Virus and the Global Goals: What Could COVID-19 Mean for Sustainable Development?
This virus has demonstrated just how much we are of one planet, and that concept—that we are all global citizens—is the bedrock of the SDGs.
Roadmap for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies – HLPF side event
At the Center on International Cooperation, our focus is on the targets for peaceful, just and inclusive societies – not just those in SDG16, but in all Sustainable Development Goals.
What happens when you take up Bridge on their call to visit their schools?
It is said that one difference between British English and American English is that when Americans say "you really must visit us sometime" they hope and...
The Ten Commandments of Referendums
Guest post by Quintin Oliver, of Stratagem International, @StratagemInt Hot off the plane from Bogota where he was advising on the upcoming referendum,...
Slay it Loud and Slay it Proud: Lessons from the Fourth Wave
Guest post from Helen Elliot from Save the Children UK, on a talk by Maria Neophytou of the GREAT Initiative, as part of the #changehistory series of talks....
Reasons to be cheerful in the fight against inequality
My job is to challenge the causes of poverty. That means that I spend a lot of time highlighting the gross injustices that I have witnessed people face. This...
Lessons from global HIV / AIDS campaigning
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl7gxiqJYAU[/youtube] Guest post from Jack Wilson, campaigner at Save the Children, reflecting on a talk by...
9 take aways from COP21
Having attended COP21 as a member of the Ethiopian delegation, I've been meaning to write up a post with some take-aways and reflections on the outcome, and...
Winning for Women
Guest post from Yvonne Jeffery, @bakingforpeace, campaigner at Save the Children, reflecting on the latest in Save the Children's #changehistory series. You...
How the tax fight is being won
Guest post from Alice Macdonald, Save the Children's head of action/2015 campaign, @alicemac83. As part of Save the Children’s History of Change series (see...
A choice between decline and growth – UK global influence and the Spending Review
This is the first in a series of blogs on the upcoming Spending Review, and how Britain maximises its influence and soft power across the world at a time of...
What Diane Abbott gets wrong about Jo Cox’s proposals on Syria
Oh dear. So these people want to join with the Tories & vote to bomb Syria @jo_cox1@JWoodcockMP #sad http://t.co/WRAg4FwjUc — Diane Abbott MP...
The state of the climate movement
This is the text of a talk I gave today at Save the Children as part of their #changehistory series, organised by Campaigns Director (and fellow...
Why the SDGs flunk the partnership test
Among the many useful elements of this year’s OECD Development Cooperation Report on partnerships, which is out today, is a handy 10 point checklist for what...
Labour and the vision thing
Some of my best friends are spads. But it may be that they are just not suited to leadership. Spads are great at schmoozing and PR. Some may even be good at...
Bill, Melinda, and the SDGs
About a week ago, the Humanosphere blog caused something of a stir in development circles with a piece on the UN's draft Sustainable Development Goals...
How to make the Addis Financing For Development summit a success
A couple of weeks ago, preparations for July's Financing For Development summit in Addis Ababa passed the 100 days to go mark. Unfortunately, the summit is at...
The Restorative Economy
Over the past six months, I’ve been working with my friend and colleague Rich Gower on a report for Tearfund, the Christian development NGO, entitled The...
So what could a Global Partnership on Development Data do for us?
As my regular post-2015 update from the invaluable Rachel Quint at the Hewlett foundation reminded me today, there have been (at least) six separate proposals...
Who’s going to pay for the SDGs?
In July, Addis Ababa will host a crucial summit on financing for development. If September’s summit on sustainable development goals (SDGs) in New York is...
Why the Green surge is an opportunity for Labour as well as a threat
What a week for the Greens: first they sail past both UKIP and the Liberal Democrats on membership numbers; then they secure a place in the televised leaders'...
The change we need in 10 words: A larger us. A longer future. A different good life.
Yesterday saw the launch of action/2015, the new global campaign on poverty, inequality, and climate change that will rally more than a thousand campaigning...
Reactions to the Secretary-General’s synthesis report
The post-2015 synthesis report was never going to be an easy task. No one can envy UN Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon his responsibility, mandated by UN member...
How about this as a headline outcome from the Addis FFD summit?
Here's a conundrum if you like riddles: how on earth is next summer's Finance For Development summit in Addis Ababa supposed to take account of the vexed...
If Not Now, When? Ending Violence Against the World’s Children
As part of UNICEF UK’s Every Child in Danger campaign, CIC’s David Steven contributed research with an eye toward the political solutions necessary for ending violence against children. In this report, he describes the scale of the epidemic, reviews the likely post-2015 targets that will make a difference in combating violence, and proposes ways forward on the issue, urging political leadership and global partnership above all.
No SDGs for you, North Korea! (updated)
Gird your loins: the zero draft of the UN Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals is out! While most post-2015ers will have raced ahead to see...
Patching Up Nigeria’s North-South Divide
In the post-colonial period, African politics has tended to look something like this (as excerpted from my book on West Africa, The Ringtone and the Drum):...
OECD DAC Chair Erik Solheim replies on ODA to least developed countries
A couple of days ago, I argued in a post here that while it was welcome that aid flows had reached a new all-time high in 2013, it was bad news that aid was...
Surprise! Aid flows are at a new all time high
So here's a big surprise. Until last year, global aid flows were declining in the wake of the financial crisis - a trend that was widely expected to continue....
Debating stable and peaceful societies
Today, the President of the UN General Assembly hosts a debate on ensuring stable and peaceful societies within the post-2015 development agenda. I am...
Ensuring Stable and Peaceful Societies
On April 24th and 25th, the President of the UN General Assembly will lead a thematic debate on ensuring stable and peaceful societies. At the request of the President of the General Assembly, I prepared a memo which highlights why peace and stability is important for sustainable development and how it might be addressed in the post-2015 development agenda. The outcome of this discussion will be included in the President’s summary and will be available as an input in the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (April 2014)
Sustainable development goals, targets and…clusters?
The UN’s Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (OWG) will meet next week to discuss potential goals and targets to replace the Millennium...
IMF: To solve inequality, tax food, books and funerals
The IMF has attracted plenty of favourable attention from unfamiliar places with two ‘staff papers’ (we’re enjoined to consider them as the personal opinions...
Rising incomes in the developing world do not a new age of equality make
Last week saw Oxfam's big new report on inequality, timed to coincide with WEF in Davos, garnering a huge amount of attention in the media - even attaining a...
The new politics of time
Real terms median wages have been stagnating in developed countries since the mid-1970s, when - as David Schweickart notes in this terrific paper (h/t Casper...
The CCC puts its thumb on the scale
Today the UK is debating whether or not to alter a legally enforceable carbon budget for 2023-2027 (Carbon Brief has an excellent explanation of the issues at...
A high ambition coalition of the willing on climate change
Could a high ambition coalition of the willing on climate change get going with defining a global carbon budget and taking on their shares to it, while leaving the door open for other governments to join at a later date? Owen Bader, Alice Lepissier, and Alex Evans think so – and have developed a detailed quant model to show how it could work and what the decarbonisation costs and emissions trading revenue flows might be.
Who chooses? a response to Jishnu Das
There was widespread admiration in my Twitter stream yesterday for an article by World Bank Senior Economist Jishnu Das slamming The Economist for its support...
What’s happening to global incomes
Now here's an interesting graph, courtesy of the World Bank's resident inequality guru, Branko Milanovic. It shows change in real incomes over the period of...
Where are the women? Gender imbalance in MY World mobile phone voting
This is a joint post with Frances Simpson Allen, of the UN Millennium Campaign The million...
Labour’s next election attack lines on the Conservatives’ development record
This piece is published this morning on the Guardian development blog (under the rather fabulous headline "Will international development be the undoing of...
Introducing the new Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
There's some interesting stuff in the latest Spending Round, including the new Conflict, Stability and Security Fund which looks rather interesting (not least...
What’s the $10 trillion question?
Global consumption grew by $10 trillion from 1990 to 2010. So the $10 trillion question is who benefited and how much? In a new paper we explore who have been...
A reply to Jeff Sachs and Johan Rockstrom on fair shares and planetary boundaries
Dear Jeff Sachs, Johan Rockstrom, Marcus Ohman and Guido Schmidt-Traub, I'm a long-standing admirer of your work, especially Johan's pioneering research on...
On inequality, let’s do the Palma (because the Gini is so last century)
There’s one measure of inequality that gets all the attention – the Gini index. The Gini was developed in the early 1900s – in fact about 100 years ago – by...
Can Obama bend it like Bono?
What do Obama and Bono have in common? Both have proposed that the world should seek to end extreme poverty over the next twenty years or so. Obama said so in...
We need an MDG on quinoa!
Breaking news on the post-2015 development agenda just in from Richard in New York, who reports that the UN Secretary-General has set a major new agenda on...
President Obama wants to eradicate extreme poverty
This was the development bit in President Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday night: We also know that progress in the most impoverished parts of...
And they’re off….
The focus of the post-2015 world today is New York where the High-Level Panel appointed by the UN Secretary-General to provide him with advice on the...
The five kinds of people you encounter on High Level Panels
With the UN's new High-level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda due to hold its first meeting next week, the big question is which Panel members will...
Why Greenpeace is part of the problem on global climate policy
On Twitter a couple of days ago, Greenpeace International's executive director Kumi Naidoo penned an appeal for people to become Greenpeace members. I threw...
Sustainable Development Goals: what just happened?
An interesting paragraph in the draft outcome document from Rio (which is now more or less the final draft, if media reports are to be believed): 248. We...
What would a good outcome from Rio+20 look like?
A genuine question, honest. Triggered by today's earnest plea urging world leaders to get their act together and agree something - anything - for the Rio+20...
Happy birthday to GD
Dear oh dear! Amid all the excitement about what happens after 2015 and so on, all of us somehow managed to overlook the small fact that it was Global...
Beyond the MDGs – our new Brookings Institution paper
In posts over the last couple of weeks, David and I have been previewing some of the ideas set out in a paper we did for the Brookings Institution in advance...
Beyond the Millennium Development Goals
Debate on what should follow the Millennium Development Goals after 2015 is now underway in earnest. This briefing paper by Alex Evans and David Steven, prepared for a closed session Brookings Institution meeting organised at the request of the US government, sets out an overview of the MDGs and their expected status in 2015; describes the background to, and options for, a post-2015 framework; and discusses the political challenges of agreeing a new framework and sets out considerations for governments and other stakeholders.
What sort of High Level Panel?
To be effective, the new High Level Panel on the post-2015 agenda needs to be clear about what it wants to be remembered for. Here are the six basic options that international commissions have open to them when they sit down to consider that question…
After the MDGs: what kind of goals?
The five key questions that will shape the development and sustainability agenda after 2015 – and the different outcomes that the answers to them lead to.
After the MDGs – avoiding the curse of the sequel
As David Cameron prepares to chair the High Level Panel charged with designing a successor to the Millennium Development Goals, he should be in no doubt that...
David Cameron to chair new UN Panel on what happens after the MDGs
News in the Guardian today: David Cameron has been asked by the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, to chair a new UN committee tasked with establishing a new...
The Overview Effect
“As the Declaration of Independence laid the groundwork for the [US] Constitution, so the commission’s report lays the foundation for the constitution of a...
Putting the ‘sustainable’ and the ‘development’ into the Sustainable Development Goals
A few months ago, the Colombian government created what passed for excitement among international climate and development types, with its proposal for...
How many people are hungry?
The good news: poverty is in retreat. The bad news: hunger isn’t. That’s the headline finding for the first Millennium Development Goal , which aims to halve...
“Freeing the entire human race from want”
The MDGs are so over Having just been rude about one World Bank report, here’s a positive review of another – the Global Monitoring Report 2011, which the...
Is it time for Sustainable Development Goals?
The pros and cons of a new global set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – and how they might work in practice
How should Europe play the Kyoto question at the Durban climate summit?
Poor old Europe. Once upon a time it led the global charge on climate change - but these days, it looks rather isolated, what with its public humiliation at...
How to subcontract your foreign aid budget
More UK aid to India debate this week (see earlier posts here and here). India has pledged $5bn in aid to help African countries meet the MDGs and got berated...
To MDG or not to MDG?
Which is the title of a presentation I've just given at a conference on global health and the MDGs in Copenhagen. The powerpoint's not up yet, but the main...
Do international NGOs have a future?
More horizon scanning out this week – it’s a growth industry - from the Irish NGO, Trocaire (and some inputs from IDS). This scan is a bit different -...
Are you ready for MDGs 2.0?
The UN this week announced a June MDG review meeting in Tokyo. This is the conference that Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan at the MDGs Summit proposed that Japan convene in 2011 (see page 4, paragraph 1 of his speech here).
One thing it probably won’t discuss (yet) is what might replace the MDGs in 2015 which is likely to be one of the big global development policy debate of the next few years.
At the MDG summit last September the outcome document requested the President of the UN general assembly to organise a ‘special event’ in 2013 ‘to follow up on efforts made’. However, it is not yet clear exactly what this will mean. The outcome document also mandated the UN Secretary General to initiate a consultation process of what would come after 2015, and to recommend in his annual reports ‘further steps to advance the United Nations development agenda beyond 2015’.
It is possible though that there will be neither an agreement on any post-2015 framework nor an extension of the current MDGs.
Not surprisingly, the subject of what a new global framework might look like in detail is really starting to bubble up in debates.
Beyond Liberalism
One way to understand the modern politics of wellbeing - by which I mean the introduction of policies by governments aimed at cultivating the ‘wellbeing’,...
LibCon Agreement – constitutional coup or cock-up? (updated x8)
Key foreign policy elements of the coalition agreement between David Cameron's Conservatives and Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats include: A Strategic Security...
Why are environmental NGOs pushing for a later peak emissions year than the IPCC?
As we've been arguing here since March, the year that policymakers select as the deadline for global emissions must peak is the key short-term variable to...
The Pittsburgh G20: your cut-out-and-keep guide
So what should we all be watching out for at next week's G20 summit? Let's start with the obvious stuff. - Expect to hear lots about bankers' bonuses, in...
Peak Emissions Now
Why wait until 2015? Let’s declare 2009 the high watermark for global greenhouse gas emissions.
This year’s World Energy Outlook
Next week sees the publication of the International Energy Agency's latest flagship World Energy Outlook, which has been heavily leaked to the Financial...
New voices…
Over the last couple of days, we’ve been blogging from the Chatham House conference – Climate Change: Politics versus Economics. As the conference made clear,...
UN not joined up on biofuels
A gaggle of UN agencies have just published a report on biofuels, says the Guardian this morning (see also previous Global Dashboard posts on biofuels)....
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