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Our readers have donated £825,000 for charities battling the climate emergency and our appeal ends on Sunday • Please donate to our charity appeal here The climate emergency was this year’s highly topical Guardian and Observer charity appeal cause, and our aim was to raise money to plant, protect and renew forests and woodland in

The post India and Japan’s MPs Act Quickly to Implement Sexual and Reproductive Health Plans after ICPD25 appeared first on Inter Press Service.

Publication date: April 2020 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 170 Author(s): Cornelius Hirsch, Tamás Krisztin, Linda See Abstract Worldwide increasing demand for agricultural products poses the critical question of where this additional production will take place. In this context, the phenomenon of large scale Foreign Land Acquisition (FLA) is one strategy that has been controversially discussed

Publication date: April 2020 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 170 Author(s): Thomas Bolognesi, Stephane Nahrath Abstract This article proposes a new theoretical explanation to the question of environmental governance failures, combining micro and macro explanations in the long run. We put forward the concept of Transversal Transaction Costs (TTCs) as a critical source of governance failures.

World’s largest investor signs up to Climate Action 100+ after criticism from activists BlackRock, the world’s largest investor, has joined an influential pressure group calling for the biggest polluters to reduce their emissions, after criticisms that it was undermining action addressing the climate crisis. The US investment firm has signed up to Climate Action 100+,

Daniel Pryor of the Adam Smith Institute, David E Hanke, Georgina Ferry and Prof Mick Watson respond to an article by George Monbiot claiming that lab-grown food will end farming and save the planet It’s encouraging to find agreement across the political divide on the potential of new technologies to combat climate change, reduce animal

The post Does Africa’s Food Future Really Lie with Young Farmers? appeared first on Inter Press Service.

In May 2018 I and other academics discussed the role of GDP at the Royal Society. You can find a summary of the event here, and listen to my remarks below. The post Is the Rate of Change of GDP the Best Way to Measure Economic Growth? appeared first on John Kay.