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India Has A Coal Problem
By Dhanasree Jayaram India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has expressed his interest in not only addressing climate change and energy security problems at the national level but also his willingness to work with the rest of the international community on reaching a consensus at the Paris Climate Summit later this year. During his recent visit to … Continue reading
Agribusiness And The Re-Colonization Of Africa
By Jim Goodman As global agribusiness interests look to expand their profits with the financial backing of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), various “charitable” foundations and the political backing of the more “developed” countries of the world (the G-8), Africa is the obvious target to be saved … Continue reading
World’s Cheapest Electricity To Be Produced In Dubai
By Sputnik Dubai has launched an ambitious solar power plant project planning to produce up to 1,000 megawatts of the world’s cheapest electricity by 2030. “Dubai Electricity & Water Authority [DEWA] awarded a contract to build the 200-megawatt plant to a group led by Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power International. The 1.2 billion dirham ($330 million) generating station will be completed in April 2017,” Bloomberg … Continue reading
China Goes ‘Rogue’ With ‘Artificial Weather’ Scheme
By Deirdre Fulton Within five years, China intends to use a dubious geoengineering technology known as ‘cloud seeding’ to induce more than 60 billion cubic meters of additional rain each year, its government said this week. Backers of the program—which involves rocket-launching chemicals such as silver iodide into the clouds to allegedly boost rainfall—say the strategy … Continue reading
Disaster Risk Reduction And Resilience As Structural Reform In Abenomics
By Andrew DeWit In the waning days of 2014, by far the hottest year humans have ever measured,1 Bloomberg News warned that the foreign investors who control roughly 70% of volume traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange “have had just about enough of Abenomics.” Decrying that there is no Japanese Facebook or Google, and that … Continue reading
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