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Evidence Wanted: Effectiveness of Sovereign Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance

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How to Cut Down the Illegal Logging Mafia

Illegal logging is a global epidemic (Credit: Getty Images)

“Every two seconds, across the world, an area of forest the size of a football field is clear-cut by illegal loggers.” This is not the work of poor people trying to find wood to cook a few grains of rice to sustain life. No. This is the work of the illegal logging mafia - aided and abetted by corrupt government officials - from forest rangers to ministers of government. They do this for greed and with the arrogance of those who have no fear of arrest or prosecution. 

Managing garbage to save the planet

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The plight of refugees is in the news all the time, mostly as a result of war. But recently, I saw a post in Dot Earth, a New York Times blog, about a documentary called Climate Refugees. It suggests that climate change will lead to massive refugee problems, mainly as a result of flooding. Disasters in New Orleans, Bangladesh and Myanmar offer a glimpse of what might come.

Geothermal energy: an under tapped, climate-friendly resource

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World Investment Report 2010: Investing in a low-carbon economy


Seeking sustainable development in a climate changed world

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What is the best way to fail?

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So now the drama really starts ratcheting up inside and out of the

Bella Center in Copenhagen. Outside in the kind of biting cold that

reminds you of standing (before stadium seating) in a fourth division

football match on a Saturday afternoon as a kid, thousands of people

are massing to march on the center - they say 50,000 and on the TV

screen it looks like it could be.

Inside, the entrenched positions see no sign of budging yet and the

negotiations are poised for the second week, normally characterized by

Where does big business fit into Copenhagen 15?

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