Tag: Developing Nations

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  Developed-Developing Nation Split on Climate Obligations Needs Reevaluation

  We need a new system to determine which nations ought to be forced to cut emissions, not the 20-year old outdated one we've got now.

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  How We Can End Energy Poverty & Bring Sustainable Energy to All

  Access to reliably electricity is what defines civilization in the 21st century, but in many parts of the world, and for a shockingly large number of people, even basic access to electricity is rare, unstable, or nonexistent. This has to change.

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  Help End Energy Poverty, Take the Power the World Pledge

  Power the World has already brought solar lights to Haiti, now it's working to bring solar powered healthcare kits to Uganda + get a million signatures so that policymakers know we care about ending energy poverty.

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  Want an Example of How to End Energy Poverty? Replace Old Inefficient Biomass Cooking Stoves

  When 25,000 more efficient cook stoves were distributed in Peru by UNDP and the national government, 41,000 tons of CO2 were eliminated and the lives of women and girls improved.

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  How Happy Is Bhutan, Really? Gross National Happiness Unpacked

  Gross National Happiness has lots of cache in the environmental and social justice community, but how is Bhutan actually calculating it and how well are they doing?

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  Peru: The Only Nation in the World Hitting the Sustainability Sweet Spot

  Peru is the only nation both meeting the UNDP definition of high human development while at the same time consuming natural resources in a globally sustainable way.

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  How U.S. Food Aid Can Reach 17.1 Million More People At No Extra Cost to Taxpayers

  What if the U.S. spent the same amount of money on food aid, but made it more efficient by doing things like sourcing food locally?

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  World Water Forum: Fight Against Privatization Continues & UN Says to Value Ecosystems, Not Just Agriculture

  "A narrow definition of 'water productivity' considers only the value of agricultural produce, but doesn't put a price on lost drinking water, reduced fish populations, parched pastures, or shrinking groundwater reservoirs."

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  Happy International Women's Day: 12 Innovations Helping Both Women and the Planet

  Innovations that are improving women's incomes or access to credit, helping women feed their children and families, introducing sustainable crops and facilitating links with markets.

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  DIY Affordable Wheelchairs Made From Reused Plastic Chairs in Rwanda

  This is how you can make affordable wheelchairs reusing plastic chairs. The user is there during the making of it to make sure he knows how to repair his or her chairs.

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  Rio+20 Won't Be 'Idealistic', Will Seek Achievable Goals Says Brazil Climate Negotiator

  In a talk held with international media, Brazil's chief negotiator at Rio+20 emphasized the focus of the event will be on development that makes economic and social sense, but recognized the need for new growth indicators.

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  Economist Jeffrey Sachs on Poverty, Politics, Pipelines, and Protests (Podcast)

  Author and economist Jeff Sachs discusses politics, Occupy, Keystone XL, the need for nuclear, and lots more.

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  Why Birth Control is as Important as a Climate Treaty or Food Aid

  Excessive population growth presents an immediate environmental danger greater than climate change.

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  Genetically Modified Crop Cultivation Rising Around The World

  For the first time this year, GMO crops are expected to occupy more area in developing countries than in industrial countries. But the United States is still in lead.

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  By 2050 We're All Likely To Be Using Fewer Resources, Whether We Like It Or Not

  The latest UN report on sustainable development reads like the TreeHugger archive, in terms of sustainable development solutions.

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  Is There Any Hope For A Non-Genetically Modified Future in America, Or Africa?

  One one hand we have the state of affairs in the US. On the other we have the future Bill Gates would like to manifest in Africa, all in the supremely laudable goal of reducing poverty and hunger. It's not a pretty picture for people or the planet.

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  Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies Would Get Us Halfway to Preventing Dangerous Climate Change

  The International Energy Agency has again weighed in on how to combat climate change through better energy policy.

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  Land Grabs Threaten World's Poor Even More Than Previously Thought, New Report Shows

  Of land deals totalling 71 million hectares, 22% was for mining, tourism, industry and forestry, and most of the rest was for biofuels.