The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
The US's stance on climate change has shifted beyond recognition. President Barack Obama's science adviser John Holdren tells Graham Lawton how the US will put its house in order, secure a deal at the make-or-break summit in Copenhagen, and lead the world's fight against dangerous climate change.
India should offer constructive but conditional engagement at Copenhagen Arvind Subramanian / July 29, 2009, 0:41 IST India should offer constructive but conditional engagement at Copenhagen. Narratives matter. Not just for creating and sustaining nationhood as Isaiah Berlin famously argued. They also matter critically in international negotiations. At the moment, …
The transcript of remarks by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her visit to New Delhi. Seeking India's proactive cooperation for a new global climate deal, she made a strong pitch for low-carbon economy and assured that Washington will "not do anything that will limit India's economic progress".
Jyoti Malhotra / New Delhi July 17, 2009, 0:03 IST The air is hotting up on climate change negotiations between developing countries, such as India and China, and the developed world, with the government now preparing to tell US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton later this week that
At their annual summit last week, leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations pledged to try to keep the planet from warming by more than 2
Lack of commitment at Bonn could dampen Copenhagen THE second round of climate change talks in Bonn concluded a little after 5 in the evening on June 12. Twelve days of heated talks among representatives of 182 countries yielded very little
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, along with senior officials, left on Tuesday for Italy to attend the G-8 and G-5 Outreach summit. The global financial meltdown, energy security and climate change are some of the core issues that will be focused on in the summit. The three-day meeting in the Italian …
Climate and Trade Policies in a Post-2012 World is a collection of short forward-thinking articles by leading experts on the relationship between trade and climate change policies. The idea for developing this publication was conceived at the
Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister of UK, delivered a speech on the Roadmap to Copenhagen manifesto on the challenge of climate change and development in London on Friday 26th June 2009.
International climate negotiators muddled through the latest round of global-warming talks in Bonn, Germany, last week, overshadowed by independent bilateral negotiations in Beijing between the United States and China. Neither meeting produced any significant breakthroughs, and new disagreements seem to have outnumbered resolutions by a wide margin. At the United …
New Delhi: A treaty or an agreement? The larger debate at the climate change negotiations, currently on in Bonn, that no one is yet picking up but could soon come up seriously, is whether the 181 countries want a new climate treaty or do they want an agreement out of …
This report gives a brief overview on how current and proposed agricultural practices impact on climate changes, and how proposed measures for 'mitigation and adaptation' impact on agriculture. It focuses on forms of intensive, large-scale (or industrialized) agriculture. It looks at the main proposals in the negotiations for a post …
The full legal text of the NGO Copenhagen Treaty written by a team of 47 experts from environment and development groups across the world, including Greenpeace.It is a work in progress, but is meant to encourage and provoke countries into thinking hard about the level of ambition, scope and detail …
The purpose of this brief is to highlight the close inter-linkages between climate change and the world of work. It aims to promote a better understanding between both spheres and greater coherence between climate, social and labour policies. The brief contains brief summaries of the state of knowledge about climate …
