4 Keys to a Successful Sustainability Strategy

By Mindy S Lubber*
Consider these morsels from last week’s Wall Street Journal: “By 2050, there could be two billion cars on the road — twice as many as there are today.”
“Energy demand is expected to be 35 percent higher in 2030 than in 2005.” “Pollution of drinking water is Americans’ No. 1 environmental concern.”
If you’re [...]

UNIDO Zeroes In On Green Industry To Defeat Poverty

The United Nations agency entrusted with accelerating sustainable industrial development in poorer States opened its general conference Monday, focusing on the opportunities offered by “green industries” in both combating climate change and attaining economic growth.
“Rather than limiting growth, a green industrial revolution could and should form the core of our response to climate change, and [...]

Copenhagen Deal on Climate Change a Must — Ban Ki-Moon

By Ban Ki-Moon*
The lines were drawn as the industrialized nations of the Group of Eight gathered in Heiligendamm, Germany on 6 June 2007. The forces mustered to fight global warming were divided into competing camps.

Germany and the United Kingdom sought urgent talks on a new climate change treaty, to go into effect when the [...]

Development Holds Key to Global Climate Policy

Developing countries need ‘green’ development, not emission cuts, to fight climate change, say B. Sudhakara Reddy and Gaudenz B. Assenza.
Developing countries have limited capacity to use new technologies. Many suffer widespread disease and malnutrition, have weak health systems, and poor access to safe water and sanitation.
Resources spent on cutting emissions alone could be better [...]

The Pattern of Response to HIV/AIDS & Climate Change — A Commentary

*By Mary Crewe
The HIV/AIDS pandemic grows from and contributes to poverty, hunger, exploitation, migration, lack of education and a failure of political will and imagination.
In most cases the reaction to the pandemic has been to describe “what is” and to find attempts to manage the existing status quo and protect it from anticipated effects.
Rather, our [...]