Don’t Sacrifice Health in Climate Battle — Bill Gates

By Naomi Antony
Spending more on climate change research could put hundreds of thousands of lives at risk by stripping away precious global health funding, Bill Gates has said.
In his 2010 Annual Letter — the second of its kind, released last week by the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation — the philanthropist warned that aid budgets may [...]

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 [...]