Sudhirendar Sharma:  Why is the developed world, that is obsessed with the idea of `greed economy’, thrusting its new capitalist variant – green economy – on the growing economies? Is it a calculated move to pin down the growing differences between the north and the south with a green business model?  Henk Manschot, a Professor

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Environment News Service: Hydropower, the biggest economic driver in the Himalayan country of Bhutan, is threatened by serious water shortages as the country’s glaciers melt due to climate warming, finds Bhutan’s latest National Human Development Report. Many of Bhutan’s glaciers are melting at a higher rate than those in other mountain ranges, according to the

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The National Geographic: The following is edited from several recent posts from the Imja Lake Expedition team at The Mountain Institute. Follow the full series at http://www.mountain.org/blog/. Glaciers Are Melting, and We’re Taking Action! The mountain world is changing faster than any of us could have imagined: these changes threaten all of us who live

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Multi-American: Will climate change contribute to migration in the future as people are displaced? Many experts believe so, and the Migration Policy Institute is the latest to produce a report detailing how. According to the report, climate change stands to displace people in a number of countries as weather changes affect basic necessities like the

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Green Left Au: Last year’s floods were the worst in Pakistan’s history. Twenty million people were affected and about 2000 lost their lives. Now there is record flooding for the second year in a row. “This is not a natural disaster”, Farooq Tariq , the national spokesperson for the Labour Party Pakistan, told Green Left

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Guardian: The world’s newest island makes it on to the map as the Arctic Uunartoq Qeqertaq, or Warming Island, is officially recognised. If you have never heard of Uunartoq Qeqertaq, it’s possibly because it’s one of the world’s newest islands, appearing in 2006 off the east coast of Greenland, 340 miles north of the Arctic

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Chinadilogue: Today, Carbon Disclosure Project launches its report on the emissions of the world’s biggest firms. Paul Simpson, its boss, tells Olivia Boyd how going green boosts profits – and recession isn’t all bad news. Every year, the UK-based Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) asks the world’s biggest companies to disclose details on their greenhouse-gas emissions and the

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