Issues & Trends
| WBCSD-VISION-2050 9 billion people live well, and within the limits of the planet: |
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| Pathways to Sustainabaility WBCSD Vision 2050: The new agenda for business Under the WBCSD's Vsion 2050 Project, twenty-nice WBCDSD member companies developed a vision of a world well on the way to sustainablility by 2050 and the pathways leading to that world. |
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| The Global Food Crisis, Mapped Oxfam, the antihunger group, has been running a campaign to call attention to the global food crisis, its consequences and its potential solutions. |
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| Europe’s financial contagion Greece sneezed, and now most of Europe has a cold. The European debt crisis has already spread like a virus from Greece to Ireland and Portugal, and other countries are now at risk: Spain, and Italy are probable candidates for financial problems. |
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| Delayed action on climate to result in irreversible change and high costs The physics of Earth’s natural systems show that a delay—of even a decade—in reducing CO2 emissions will lock in large-scale, irreversible changes. If carbon dioxide emissions do not begin to trend down this decade, it will be nearly impossible to stabilize the climate at any acceptable level. |
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| Weather disasters seen costly sign of things to come WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is on a pace in 2011 to set a record for the cost of weather-related disasters and the trend is expected to worsen as climate change continues, officials and scientists said on Thursday. |
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Wally's World Thirty-five years ago this week, Wallace Broecker predicted decades of dangerous climate change caused by humans. Unfortunately, he was all too prescient. |
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| Subsidies for Renewables, Biofuels Dwarfed by Supports for Fossil Fuels -- Bloomberg New Energy Finance Preliminary Analysis Highlights Wide Gap Between Government Help for Clean, Dirty Power Sources NEW YORK--((BUSINESS WIRE)--New research from Bloomberg New Energy Finance reveals that despite many platitudes and pledges, governments of the world are spending substantially more on subsidizing dirty forms of energy than on renewables and biofuels. |
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| Experts roll out malaria map, urge mosquito study (Reuters) - Nearly 3 billion people, or two-fifths of the world's population, were at risk of contracting malaria in 2009 and closer study of the mosquito's life cycle is needed to combat the disease, researchers said in two reports. |
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| A view of Horn of Africa's drought from space The worst drought in 60 years has hit the Horn of Africa region, an area in east Africa that includes Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya. |