environment
Rio Tinto’s biodiversity accounting comes up short in Madagascar
Rio Tinto says that it will have a net positive impact on biodiversity wherever it does business. In Madagascar — one of the world’s 34 biodiversity hotspots — Rio Tinto’s net positive impact strategy relies on a series of assumptions that are increasingly being questioned. Through local subsidiary Qit Minerals Madagascar (QMM), it operates the world’s largest ilmenite mine along the island’s southeastern coast, in a unique and fragile ecosystem comprised of littoral forest and wetlands. Post by Amy Glass, MAAPD student in madagascar.
Climate change and development
The issue of climate change and development is starting to come together quite sharply. Two recent reports by Oxfam and CARE bring out the problem in its starkest reality. The reports look at the effects of climate change on human migration, and the difficulty of equitably achieving a sufficient cut in greenhouse gas emissions.
The World Bank and Climate Change: Sustainability or Exploitation?
Commentary on article from Upside Down World
This article discusses suspicions of the market-based Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) for reduced emissions to combat climate change and how developing countries communities are affected.
Development workers for the last decade have been worried about how World Bank and UNEP sponsored mechanisms to sequestering carbon in developing countries forests [...]
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