Environment

A collection of facts and further resources about economic development in Africa, including organisations, reports and articles.

After decades of famine, grinding poverty, colossal debts and enormous slum-growth, Africa is indisputably the worst casualty of economic globalization. As the region takes the further brunt of man-made climate change, the rich nations hold a moral responsibility to reorder economic priorities and coordinate a massive transfer of resources to the impoverished continent.

絶え間なく続く商業化と過剰な消費に煽られた気候変動と地球温暖化の脅威は、政策立案者と懸念する市民の両方にとって闘争の場となりました。今後10年間は、二酸化炭素排出量削減に対する共同対応だけでなく、国際開発と世界的な正義運動の全体的な方向性を決定することになるでしょう。

The threat of climate change and global warming, fueled by relentless commercialization and excessive consumption, has turned into a fighting ground for both policymakers and concerned citizens. The coming decade is set to determine not only a collective response to reducing carbon emissions, but the entire future direction for international development and the global justice movement.

The neglected policy debate on ecological limits is unable to call out the elephant of unsustainable lifestyles without challenging the very premise of our economic system, writes Adam Parsons. 

Every living thing, every plant, every animal and every human being needs water to stay alive. For centuries, possibly millennia, all over the world, water was shared, for everyone’s right to this essential resource was recognised. For thousands of years legal systems have accepted that running water cannot be owned.