More: Environment
China’s Image Campaign: Green on the Outside, Black on the Inside?
“Green mountains and clear water are as good as mountains of gold and silver,” said Chinese President Xi Jinping as he underscored his country’s...
A 10-Point Plan to Stop Tropical Forest Deforestation
The World Economic Forum-hosted Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 is advocating a 10-point plan to remove deforestation from commodity supply chains by 2020. Aimed at...
Climate Change, Food Safety and the Global Health: An International Law Perspective
Worldwide, climate change is already affecting directly and indirectly the agricultural productivity and ecology of some organisms because of changing patterns in crop production,...
Seven Reasons Why Climate Change Is Not a Hoax, Mr. Trump
REASON #1: Consider the category 4 and 5 hurricanes that have developed in one season -- the intensity attributed to climate change. The latest,...
The unfolding humanitarian crisis around Lake Chad: UN report falls short of naming environmental dimensions
It is encouraging to see that the United Nations Security Council is beginning to acknowledge the transboundary dimensions of fragility and conflict, as demonstrated...
Biodiplomacy – Nationalism and globalism as two sides of the same coin
The rapid progress of technology has brought about an era of massive change. Distances have shortened, while IT has made communication easier, quicker and...
Addressing Poverty as a Climate Change Adoption Strategy
The Earth is experiencing the warmest surface temperatures since modern climate measurements were implemented in 1880. This extreme global warming is the result of...
Environmentalism: A Slippery Slope of Ignorance and Hypocrisy
Perusing through my morning news digest, I came across an article from The Daily Mail featuring a story on the employment of child labor...
Battle for Hydro in the War against Climate Change
Propelled by the 2016 Paris Agreement there is global impetus towards clean renewable energy. The need now is to invest in ‘paradigm shifting technology’...
The inconvenient truth about “Faceless Eurocrats”
Faceless Eurocrats denying EU member states their rightful sovereignty are the bête noir of Eurosceptics across the continent, a major factor in both the...