Lima: Climate Change Optimism Returns to Earth

The Lima Climate Change Conference (COP20), held under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), concluded in the early hours of S...

Lima climate change talks best chance for a generation, say upbeat diplomats

Hopes rise for global warming deal after US-China carbon commitments inject much-needed momentum into Peru talks UN climate negotiations opening in Lima on Monday have the ...

Brazil’s sustainability tipping point – three lessons for success from the west

When it comes to sustainability, Brazilians should look around and learn from the apathy and advocacy in other markets In terms of mainstreaming sustainability, Brazil look...

Nuclear Plants To Power Sustainable Development

Forgotten is the shock and despair triggered by the Fukushima power plant disaster about two years ago. Nuclear power is here to stay. In fact, according to a consensus eme...

HUMANITARIANISM – THE METAPHOR FOR PROGRESS IN 2014

You have no need to go anywhere. Journey into yourself, enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendour of your own light – Rumi

As curtains fall on 2013, l...

A Shifting Balance of Power

The notion and practice of power is arguably what creates and maintains large societies. Since the role of government is conceived to be so integral in safeguarding our soc...

India’s gender gap record among the world’s worst

MUMBAI: A plummeting child sex ratio is largely to blame for India’s poor performance in the 2013 Global Gender Gap Index released by the World Economic Forum. India ...

Bill Gates Talks To Author Of “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” Katherine Boo

Bill Gates: How did you pick the particular slum and the people that you profiled in the book?

Katherine Boo: Although I’d been spending time in slums all ove...

Do We Know What Our Children Want?

"There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place."

J.K. Rowling

Over the last one century or so, ordin...