Ross Garnaut Update Paper 2: Progress Towards Effective Global Action on Climate Change
http://www.garnautreview.org.au/update-2011/update-papers/up2-progress-towards-effective-global-action-climate-change.pdf
Nicholas Stern mentioned Ross Garnaut as an important contribution.
Anything is possible when you commit to change.
PROGRESS TOWARDS EFFECTIVE GLOBAL ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Key points
• The 2008 Garnaut Climate Change Review said that strong mitigation, consistent with Australia’s national interest, requires effective global action, with Australia playing its proportionate part. Effective… Continue reading
From Government Budgets to Sustainable Social Policy Community Forum
The Australian Budget came down last night. I had a quick look over it without going into the detail, as I am not interested in the details but am feeling for another way of looking at Government budgets with a new future in mind. So I will just write a stream of consciousness here, without… Continue reading
United Nations: MDG – Ending Poverty is Gender Equality
Did you know?
“A woman living in sub-Saharan Africa has a 1 in 16 chance of dying in pregnancy. This compares with a 1 in 3,700 risk for a woman from North America.”
“Lack of safe water and sanitation is the world’s single largest cause of illness.”
I am being inspired on this issue of… Continue reading
Nicholas Stern: From Pessimism to Optimism
I am currently reading his Blue Print for a Safer Planet. Nicholas Stern encourages people to not become pessimistic as we will surely fail. I recall listening to Bob Brown, the Leader of the Australian Greens, at his launch encouraging his supporters to be optimistic. I also agree with this. I don’t feel pessimistic, I… Continue reading
Joseph Stiglitz: The Top 1% need the Bottom 99%
The article below focuses on the top 1% and it evokes for me an experience working as a Research Analyst at the home of one of the Managing Directors of the company. I was coding survey verbatim responses into categories with his wife. I asked the wife just out of curiosity whether she felt those… Continue reading
Joseph Stiglitz: Nobel Prize ‘Information And The Change In The Paradigm In Economics’
Economics thinking has fundamentally shaped the world we live in today. Joseph Stiglitz is a well renowned US Economist who fearlessly has metaphorically identified the Emperor has no clothes. Meaning the unquestioned faith governments, academics and the business community have placed on market capitalism, is not the panacea to stable efficient societies. Moreover many policies… Continue reading