Pathways to Sustainabaility WBCSD

Submitted by ward on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 10:27am

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Vision 2050: The new agenda for business

Under the WBCSD's Vsion 2050 Project, twenty-nice WBCDSD member companies developed a vision of a world well on the way to sustainablility by 2050 and the pathways leading to that world.

This mural is a basis for visualizing the possible pathways. The mural is meant to provide a tool for strategic planning, prioritizing, and monitoring progeress to help countires, businesses, NGOs , international organization and individuals assess the degree to which we are on track to accomplishing the vision.

Link:

http://www.wbcsd.org/web/projects/BZrole/uc-PathwaysMuralWBCSD.pdf

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2011

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Global

The Global Food Crisis, Mapped

Submitted by ward on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 10:13am

Author:

JUSTIN GILLIS

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Oxfam, the antihunger group, has been running a campaign to call attention to the global food crisis, its consequences and its potential solutions. The Times outlined the challenge of future food security on a warming planet in this article several weeks ago, and this week my colleague Jeffrey Gettleman described the appalling famine unfolding in Somalia.

Link:

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/03/the-global-food-crisis-mapped/

Geographic Area:

Somalia

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Regional

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Europe’s financial contagion

Submitted by ward on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 10:06am

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Greece sneezed, and now most of Europe has a cold. The European debt crisis has already spread like a virus from Greece to Ireland and Portugal, and other countries are now at risk: Spain, and Italy are probable candidates for financial problems.

Contagion also has much to do with actual economic links among countries. Researchers have identified financial ties in particular as responsible for the “fast and furious” spread of crisis from one country to another. Trading activity between countries, however, can propagate economic sickness more slowly.