G-20 Urged to Address Financing of Emissions Reductions - G-20 Dispatches - WSJ
G-20 Urged to Address Financing of Emissions Reductions - G-20 Dispatches - WSJ: Panelists on a discussion about efforts to fight global warming ahead of a key Copenhagen summit in December said it’s...
View ArticleGlobal Economic Forum to Expand Permanently
Global Economic Forum to Expand Permanently: President Obama will announce Friday that the once elite club of rich industrial nations known as the Group of 7 will be permanently replaced as a global...
View Articleg20breadandbreakfast: PODCAST NUMBER 4: Labor calls out Obama...
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View ArticleG20 Recap
While I took a respite, the world has been pretty active.Two rounds of global talks on economy recovery: the G8 summit at L’Aquila, Italy, pledging (mere?) $20 billion to boost food supplies (it’s a...
View ArticlePut People First: G20 Counter Conference Saturday 7 November 2009 Westminster...
On 7 November, as the G20 returns to the UK, the agenda is to nurse an already failed economic model back to life, while looking to sew up an unjust international climate deal outside the UN...
View ArticleIn pursuit of peace
I was away attending the Second Global Forum on the Power of Peace, I mentioned at work today. ‘Power of peace… I thought it was spam,’ a colleague remarked referring to a mail she had got on the...
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1.02 billion people live on this earth in chronic hunger. If this shocks you, sign up at www.1billionhungry.org! FAO’s new online anti-hunger petition will send out a strong message to world...
View ArticleGCAP APPLAUDS INITIATIVE BY THE AFRICAN UNION TO SEEK FORMAL MEMBERSHIP IN...
The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP), representing Civil Society Organizations in over 130 countries applauds the initiative by the AU to be a full member at the G20. We also pledge our...
View ArticleGCAP APPLAUDS INITIATIVE BY THE AFRICAN UNION TO SEEK FORMAL MEMBERSHIP IN...
The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP), representing Civil Society Organizations in over 130 countries applauds the initiative by the AU to be a full member at the G20. We also pledge our...
View ArticleChasing a tale
It was in spring this year that I went to Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh – India’s largest and one of the poorest states – to oversee a photo-shoot. The subject was a nondescript van that ferries pregnant...
View ArticleGeneva: Why the World Health Assembly matters more than the G8
The WHA is seen by some as an ineffective UN meeting but it has much greater legitimacy than the G8/G20 on account of its democracy. Unlike the rich countries' clubs of the G8 and G20, all countries,...
View ArticleThe G8 draws to a close
The G8 summit has now drawn to a close and the Deerhurst resort in Muskoka will be getting back to normal. The world leaders flew back to Toronto by helicopter with Obama and Cameron flying together to...
View ArticleNiger: Failed promises and inspirational individuals
During the last eight weeks, while I’ve been in Niger, I’ve often been overwhelmed by the scale of the problems people face here. It’s not just the current food crisis and the number of people who are...
View ArticleIs G20 the answer for global health?
We have just had another G8 Summit. As other blogs here have discussed, there are clearly problems with the G8. Campaigners, lobbyists and developing country governments put huge amounts of time and...
View ArticleCountry underwater
It’s still an under reported tragedy. Over 20 million people in neighbouring Pakistan have lost all but their lives as flood waters continue to surge forth – even three weeks on since heavy rains hit...
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