‘Scramble for the Arctic’

Wikileaks cables show race to carve up Arctic

Conflict Minerals in Eastern DRC

A key topic at the EU-ACP Assembly

EU-ACP Joint Parliamentary Assembly debates conflict diamonds

Feeling cold in Brussels? Try Yakutsk

In Siberia, the winter temperature can drop to -60C

Challenges to the Food Industry

The rise of ethical production

Sustaining an ethical food chain

China and Energy – improved efficiency, but booming demand

The New York Times reports:

China Fears Warming Effects of Consumer Wants

US Energy Policy in the light of The Oil Spill

President Obama calls for a ‘clean energy future’

Obama Calls for New Focus on Energy Policy

The ‘water-cost’ of imports

Developed countries and the global water crisis

UK water use ‘worsening global crisis’

Climate change and the fetish of economic growth

A report by the New Economics Foundation:-

Economic growth no longer possible for rich countries

UN & International Year of Biodiversity

The year is launched in Berlin, 11th January, and programme details are available:

Opening ceremony of the International Year of Biodiversity

Long-term decline of USA car industry?

An interestingly optimistic account of the possible end of the USA’s love affair with the car:

After a Century of Growth, U.S. Fleet Entering Era of Decline