This research provides the evidence base which confirms what we have long suspected – that there are more fossil fuels listed on the world’s capital markets than we can afford to burn if we are to prevent dangerous climate change.

This new paper by Global Water Partnership sets out an overarching framework for the analysis of equity in the context of water development and management.

How can investors be encouraged to consider more than purely commercial and short-term gains? Various sets of investment principles have emerged in recent years.

The World Trade Report is an annual publication that aims to deepen understanding about trends in trade, trade policy issues and the multilateral trading system. The 2011 World Trade Report is split into two main parts. The first is a brief summary of the trade situation in 2010.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have increased support for poverty reduction. For over a decade, they have provided a ‘moral compass’ to measure progress towards crucial human development targets, from poverty reduction to tackling disease.

South Africa is all set to kick off its preparations for the year-end UN climate change conference at Durban. Environment ministers from countries representing the entire spectrum of interests in the climate process will be meeting in Berlin for the Petersberg Climate Dialogue.

The effort to ensure long-term financing to address climate change is expected to be a key issue at the year-end UN climate conference to be held at Durban in South Africa. At Cancun, it was agreed that a climate fund would be set up and South Africa would like to make sure that it is operationalised at the Durban conference.

During the 1960s and 1970s there was an intense debate on the observed inverse relationship between farm size and per hectare agricultural productivity in India. It was subsequently argued that the higher productivity of smallholdings would disappear with the adoption of superior technology, modernisation and growth in general. However, close to half a century later, National Sample Survey data from the initial years of the 21st century show that smallholdings in Indian agriculture still exhibit a higher productivity than large holdings.

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