The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.
The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing more competitive economies.
It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.
There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming proliferation of plastics urban sprawl and the loss of biodiversity than by treaties top-down regulations and other approaches offered by big governments and their dependents.
Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law democracy security and sustainable economic and environmental development.
On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.
More than ever before there is a global understanding that long-term social economic and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families communities and countries.
Without international participation jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few if any environmental protections harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy.
The environmental crisis is a global problem and only global action will resolve it.
Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?
Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science environmental management government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.
If we want to address global warming along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible we must learn to use our resources more wisely kick our addiction and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.
Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.
Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear rather than science.
After all sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words keeping the asset whole rather than undermining your natural capital.
Education particularly higher education will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.
In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health education equality and protection for all the world's children.