China, the world's largest food consumer, finds itself faced with obstacles to preserving farmland amid its deepening urbanization, as well as to meeting the growing demand for farm products, a...
The importance of agriculture and its potential for African development is widely acknowledged. African economies’ are mainly based on agriculture, which is at least twice as effective in reducing...
Since the last Rio summit, China's way of doing things has changed: citizens have become players in environmental governance. Chang Cheng reflects on a civil-society journey. This article is adapted...
Review published in the African Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 3, No. 1, June 2012. The book Climate Change and Sustainable Urban Development in Africa and Asia (Belinda Yuen and Asfaw Kumssa...
Our ever-expanding cities are set to swallow an area the size of Monglioa by 2030, writes John Elkington. The challenge is to turn them from centres of crisis into agents of a green revolution.
Like many global cities, Hong Kong could radically cut its carbon emissions by making its buildings greener - but a regulatory black hole is hamerpering progress.
China's existing "low-carbon cities" are mostly fakes, energty researcher Jiang Kejun tells Liu Jianqiang. For the sake of future economic strength, the government must give meaning to this slogan.
Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report shows the global surface temperature increased 0.74 °C in the past 100 years (1906-2005), mostly because of the impact of greenhouse gas emissions. More...
There are two schools of thought about China’s role in climate negotiations since Copenhagen. The first sees China as the principal obstacle to progress at the talks. The second considers that, as a...
During my recent trip to Australia, I encountered two illusions about climate change that need to be dispelled. The first is that an ambitious outcome from the COP15 in Copenhagen this December...