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Youth Self-employment Campaign in Nepal

Submitted by Mritunjay Jha on Sat, 11/01/2014 - 16:00
In the absence of strong employment mechanism, Nepalese youths are under the state of limbo regarding the job opportunities whereabouts and whatabouts. Neither the government has a concrete plan & policy to stave off the challenges in coming days, as a result, about 1.5 thousand youths are flying abroad in search of job everyday. In this context, a group of youth has started “Youth Self-employment Campaign” to make young people skilful and Self-employed through Agricultural entrepreneurship. MJ Jha, National Coordinator of the campaign shares his experience with “Agro-Times” correspondent. Excerpts:
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Climate Action in the Indian state of Uttarakhand

Submitted by Suresh Nautiyal on Tue, 10/28/2014 - 01:30
Workshops held by India's Uttarakhand Parivartan Party as part of the Global Greens climate campaign in September produced the 'Dehradun Resolution on Climate Change' appealing to the world's leadership to commit itself to climate change mitigation. Amongst other things the resolution says: the welfare of living beings has to be strengthened as part and parcel of the ecological system; there has to be a balance between consumption and production; it is very important not to haphazardly withdraw energy subsidies in developing countries; and western societies have to take a lead in reducing consumption.
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Environmental migration, climate change and the post 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Submitted by habinef on Mon, 10/27/2014 - 23:52
Climate change adds new complexity to the interdependency between migration and the environment. Rwanda, Kenya and other African countries have experienced dramatic impacts from drought and famine leading to environmental migration in the last decade. Environmental migration is a transnational issue that requires structured dialogue between Africa and Europe and a coherent policy on migration and climate change including investment in the Green Climate Fund.
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The German Energy Transition

Submitted by Keli Yen on Sat, 10/11/2014 - 23:41

In a recent posting, John Farrell of the Institute for Local Self Reliance lays out three clear drivers for why Germans are going renewable at all costs.  He lauds their focus on bills (rather than rates), a clear long term energy policy, and the widespread participation in the energy economy facilitated by feed-in tariffs.

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3 reasons why New Zealand has the best-designed government in the world

Submitted by Keli Yen on Thu, 10/02/2014 - 02:09

By , on vox.com.  On Saturday, September 20th, New Zealand held its 51st general election, in which the center-right National Party and its leader, Prime Minister John Key, made some modest gains. If this all sounds rather dull — a country of less than 5 million people having an election in which no power changes hands — that's fair enough.

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The Benefits of Easing Climate Change

Submitted by Keli Yen on Fri, 09/26/2014 - 05:44

By Eduardo Porter, New York Times, On Tuesday, more than 100 world leaders gathered at the United Nations to open a climate summit meeting that Secretary General Ban Ki-moon hopes will provide momentum to a new round of negotiations toward a global environmental agreement to be signed in Paris next year.

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Errors and Emissions: Could Fighting Global Warming Be Cheap and Free?

Submitted by Keli Yen on Mon, 09/22/2014 - 23:46

Paul Krugman, NYT, This just in: Saving the planet would be cheap; it might even be free. But will anyone believe the good news?

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The overwhelming emergency of the time is global warming

Submitted by Christine Milne on Sat, 09/20/2014 - 16:00
Greens Leader Christine Milne speaks to the Greens' urgency motion, on the need for the Prime Minister to attend the United Nations Climate Summit, and to recognise that Australia's emissions reduction target is inadequate.
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