Will food and Ag Come out of the Shadows at Copenhagen?

Money talks, power whispers – it’s a norm of politics that may be challenged at the Copenhagen conference, which will decide if the world’s power brokers are ready to adopt a treaty in time to prevent irreversible climate pollution. For the dozen years since the Kyoto protocol of 1997 was adopted, someone or other has [...]

Women Ignored in Climate Change at Copenhagen

Women hold up half the sky, claims an old saying, coined long before the world’s skies were filled with global warming gases. My sense is that from now on, they will have to hold up a lot more. The absence of debate on this gendered slant to global warming is a silence piled upon silences [...]