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The threat of climate change and global warming, fueled by relentless commercialization and excessive consumption, has turned into a fighting ground for both policymakers and concerned citizens. The coming decade is set to determine not only a collective response to reducing carbon emissions, but the entire future direction for international development and the global justice movement.

Elites vs. Greens in the Global South

The challenge facing activists in the global North and the global South is to bring about those circumstances that will trigger the formation of a global mass movement that will decisively confront the most crucial challenge of our times.

Two Degrees of Misrepresentation

The target limit of a 2C increase in global temperature was not reached scientifically: it is a political aim for a political process.

The Big Question: Can Biofuel Help Prevent Global Warming, or Will it Only Make Matters Worse?

The rush to produce biofuels is reported to have increased the cost of food on the global market, destroyed tracts of rainforest in tropical countries and to have had little overall impact on reducing greenhouse gases.

State of the World 2008: Environmental Woes Sow Seeds of Sustainability

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Concern about environmental degradation is beginning to impact the global economy, according to a new report by an international environmental research group.

The Worldwatch Institute details a lengthy and distressing list of environmental problems caused by the global economic system, but finds some evidence that the world is taking small steps toward a sustainable future.

From False to Real Solutions for Climate Change

The awareness that environmental activists are generating in campaigns makes us all more conscious of how damaging bogus strategies like carbon trading can be, in contrast with a genuine project to change the world.

Each Degree of Global Warming Linked to 20,000 Deaths a Year

For each increase of one degree Celsius in the global temperature caused by carbon dioxide emissions, the resulting air pollution would lead annually to about 1,000 additional deaths and many more cases of respiratory illness and asthma across the United States, finds new Stanford University research released today.

Business Rules

Bali demonstrated that when profit scores over the planet, the political will to address climate change is in short supply.

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