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The International Organization for Migration (IOM), a Geneva-based body, warned that ‘the world must prepare for a mass increase in climate-linked migration.’ Deemed as a certain reality in the foreseeable future, it is what leaders who wrangled deals at the Copenhagen Climate Conference failed to be alarmed about. The United Nations Climate Change [...]

Between now and 2050, advanced countries will be dealing with a stark reality: ‘the fiscal burden of the crisis [will be] about 10% of the ageing-related costs. The other 90% will be extra spending on pensions, health and long-term care.’ Ageing is creeping up in the rich world. The poor section of the globe is but a few decades behind. Based on [...]

While Australia’s stock market lost 59 percent and a 5.7 percent unemployment rate also assailed the country, it is ‘the only developed country to avoid technical recession.’ Australia has breezed through the global economic downturn ahead of any other developed country. The country’s ‘stock market has bounced back almost 30 percent since [...]

The problem of food insecurity affects the world’s small-scale farms and rural areas the most. This is because these places are also where ‘70 percent of the world’s hungry live and work.’ As the world commemorates World Food Day on October 16, some depressing statistics confront the governments of the world: an estimated increase of 105 [...]

Major negotiating camps in the upcoming climate deal are lapsing into ‘a new and dangerous form of trade and technology protectionism’ in the name of climate change. The unfortunate turn of events is ‘poisoning North-South relations in the two negotiating arenas on climate change and on trade.’ It seems that developed countries, especially [...]

Requiring poor countries, along with the developed world in the proposed CO2 emission reduction bid, to go back to 2000 emission levels for a 2050 population would mean putting the developing countries on a very stringent and drastic energy diet. This move might be suicidal for these countries as it forces them to abandon their plans, strategies, and [...]

When William Wallace, portrayed by Mel Gibson in the film ‘Braveheart,’ screamed “Freedom!” moments before he was decapitated, one can’t help but notice that the cause which the national hero of Scotland fought for is no different from the freedom causes that others likewise died fighting for, and still some are fighting for to this day. Wallace [...]

Representatives from the US and the European Union (EU) were optimistic about the possibility of reaching a global agreement to combat climate change, but stated that the negotiations for a new climate treaty will be anything but easy. After two days of meetings of the 17 largest and emerging economies in the world, there is more optimism about [...]

The Kyoto Protocol is intended to cut global emissions of greenhouse gases. This is an agreement among nations to reduce their carbon emissions. According to The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the objective is to achieve “stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous [...]

“Giving large sums of money to the very people who caused the problems in the first place seems very unwise, to put it mildly,” said Srichand P Hinduja, Chairman of the diversified Hinduja Group. In an article in Forbes magazine, as a pre-G-20 London summit commentary, Hinduja said: “What we are witnessing is the trailer to the real movie.” [...]