Simon Zadek blogs from Copenhagen
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Copenhagen will not deliver the right global deal. It is time for nations to save us from climate catastrophe.
Friday, (Day 3): over the peak and heading for end-station Sunday...there is a seriousness here, a focused concern that is strangely settling...despite the usual chaos of Davos’s
Oil is cheap. New York’s main futures contract, light sweet crude for March delivery, traded at $41.63 a barrel today, while Brent North Sea crude for March fell
Actually the session title was ‘sustaining the ngo sector’, a lunch session with 50 + NGO leaders discussing the impact of the downturn on the community...an amazing group of people
My annual pilgrimage to the Magic Mountain is always a transcendent experience of departure and arrival...this year more than most, not only because of the extraordinary circumstances but because
The events of the last twelve months have made 2008 the most important year for decades, certainly since the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Indeed, it is possible that history
Michael Edwards's essay "Philanthrocapitalism: after the goldrush" (19 March 2008) raises the alarm over what he sees as the hidden failures in applying the power of
The foundation of a healthy public realm is effective accountability of governments, businesses and organisations. Each day, there are reminders of how much goes wrong when this quality is absent
Global trade policy and practice is being reinvented from the ground up. Far away from the depressing bickering between nation-state representatives over the carcass of the Doha trade round, labour
Anthony Barnett's insightful reflection on of the "three faces of the World Social Forum" (protesting, networking and proposing) on openDemocracy inspired me to mirror his elegant
