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Environment

Is It Time To Take Science Out Of The Climate Change Debate?

Scientists tell us the world is warming and that a climate catastrophe is imminent. They?re probably right. Yet climate change framed by scientists, politicians and economi...

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Bollywood

Celebrities push to make 2015 year of action on poverty and climate change

Celebrities and campaigners including Matt Damon, Bill Gates, Jody Williams and Malala Yousafzai are joining forces to launch an international campaign to persuade the plan...

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Environment

International law stays silent on the responsibility for climate change

The United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC), as the 1992 agreement is known, has sent a yearly caravan of politicians, activists and lawyers to some of the worl...

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Sustainable Development

Sustainable development economics

TWO schools of thought tend to dominate today’s economic debates. According to free-market economists, governments should cut taxes, reduce regulations, reform labour...

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Environment

Your brain on climate change: why the threat produces apathy, not action

Many people aren?t responding to mounting evidence of the huge impacts of climate change. Neuroscience helps explain why ? and the key role that businesses can play...

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Environment

Go solar': Queensland farmer sends giant climate change message to G20 organisers

A Queensland farmer has cut a giant message in his field to urge G20 organisers to add climate change to the agenda for this month's leaders' summit.

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Health

With aim to end tuberculosis by 2020, Harsh Vardhan announces free treatment for all

“TB is a by-product of poverty,” Harsh Vardhan pointed out. “I strongly believe TB control should be taken up by everyone as a development issue. The resp...

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Health

Ebola, Beyond the Headlines

I??e spent the past week meeting with politicians, policymakers, and reporters in New York, Washington D.C., and Boston. One topic has pretty much dominated the conversatio...

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Hollywood

Geena Davis: Women ?stalled? in D.C.

Actress Geena Davis says the route to getting more women into public office lies not only in D.C — but in Hollywood. “We’re not showing female politicians...

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Sustainable Development

Meeting the New Prime Minister

As the New York Times put it before his visit to the United States recently, India’s Prime Minister has “pledged to cut through red tape, stamp out corruption, ...

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