For 25 years, Worldwatch Institute’s State of the World reports have helped guide concerned citizens, policymakers, business innovators, and others toward sustainable solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. This year, State of the world outlines the innovations that are helping to create a global economy that serves both people and the planet.
These innovations include microfinance, closed-loop manufacturing, large-scale renewable energy, carbon markets, biodiversity banking, su more...
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[04/09/2008 10:00:00] ''Local and regional authorities are directly affected, in the most pragmatic way, by migration flows and, as such, can and must contribute to national and international policy-making on the subject'' stated Yavuz Mildon at the opening of the Conference of Ministers Responsible for Migration Affairs, on 4 September, in Kiev (Ukraine). ''Any policy measures on migration should therefore necessarily take into account the local and regional experience'' he added underlining, i more...
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[05/09/2008 10:00:00] ''Building sustainable communities is a huge challenge for local authorities and all levels of governance. But I strongly believe that it is the way for European future,'' said Ian Micallef, President of the Congress Chamber of Local Authorities at the closing session of the UDITE Congress in Cardiff (United Kingdom) on 5 September. ''The economic, social and environmental well-being are the main components of sustainable development, and our approach is to link them toge more...
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A report by Fraunhofer Institute-
3 September 2008: Seoul, the capital of South Korea, is a typical mega city: vast, pulsating, noisy and full of exhaust fumes. This is the setting in which researchers from the German Fraunhofer Institute are developing new building concepts and IT solutions. which will save energy, cut pollution and make living in the city a more pleasant experience.
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Summary: 'Important gaps remain in delivering on the global commitments in the areas of aid, trade, debt relief, and access to new technologies and to affordable essential medicines. In the countdown to 2015, urgent responses are needed to bridge the existing implementation gaps to make good on the promises made to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
A recently released report by the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Gap Task Force identifies these gaps in detail and provides more...
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Neoliberlism arose as a project of imperialism to counter the increased power of the working classes of the metropolitan countries on the one hand and the Third World countries on the other. Near full employment in the metropolitan countries and social welfare measures had increased the bargaining power of the workers in Europe. An anti-worker ideology was nourished by trashing the achievements of welfare states. Simultaneously, the lessons of history were negated in persuading and bullying Thir more...
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This is the flagship annual report from the World Bank. Summary: 'World Development Report 2008 calls for greater investment in agriculture in developing countries.The report warns that the sector must be placed at the center of the development agenda if the goals of halving extreme poverty and hunger by 2015 are to be realized.
* While 75 percent of the world’s poor live in rural areas in developing countries, a mere 4 percent of official development assistance goes to agriculture.
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