Documentos
Well-being evidence for policy: A review
Over the last 30 years, there has been a considerable growth in academic research on the causes of well-being. In general, this literature gives a fairly consistent picture of which factors have associations with subjective well-being. However, it is only in the last few years that there has been the corresponding level of interest from […]
New UN report – Food and Agriculture: The future of sustainability
This study is part of the Sustainable Development in the 21st century (SD21) project. The project is implemented by the Division for Sustainable Development of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. “Our population trajectory means that from now to 2030, the world will need to build the equivalent of a city of […]
Out in the Cold – new report on Shell’s plans in the Arctic
Shell’s Annual General Meeting tomorrow is unlikely to go calmly. The company’s problems range from anger over excessive executive pay to spills in the Niger delta. At this time, Platform, Greenpeace and FairPensions are putting to scrutiny offshore Arctic exploration as a key direction in the company’s strategy. The new report ‘Out in the Cold […]
Redução de Áreas Protegidas para a Produção de Energia
Nos próximos oito anos, o governo brasileiro planeja investir R$ 96 bilhões para construir 22 hidrelétricas na região amazônica e a maioria desses empreendimentos está próxima ou dentro de áreas protegidas já estabelecidas. Um total de 1.500 km² de florestas já perderam proteção legal em janeiro deste ano, quando a Presidente da República aprovou uma […]
BankTrack 360º: For BankTrack, 2011 was a year marked by crisis, as well as hope, in the financial sector
The effects of the 2008 financial crisis were still reverberating throughout the global economy, with unemployment continuing to plague many countries. Europe in particular is experiencing a debt crisis that is leading to the spread of austerity measures across the continent. Global regulators persisted in dragging their feet and doing little to hold the financial […]
US banks risk public health and climate by financing coal
RAN and sierra club detail the “filthy five” banks in third annual “coal Finance report rard” Today Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack and the Sierra Club released the Coal Finance Report Card 2012, their third annual ranking of the largest financiers of mountaintop removal coal mining and coal-fired power plants. The report looks at the stated […]
Protecting Health from Climate Change – Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment
Extreme weather events can damage and destroy critical health infrastructure, and reduce health system efficiency. There is now strong evidence that the earth’s climate is changing rapidly, due mainly to human activities. Increasing temperatures, sea-level rises, changes in precipitation patterns and extreme events are expected to increase a range of health risks, from the direct […]
Primeiro Atlas do Trabalho Escravo traz ferramenta de prevenção para as empresas
O estudo apresenta duas novas e poderosas ferramentas para os gestores de políticas públicas, atores ecônomicos e financeiros: o índice de probabilidade de trabalho escravo e o índice de vulnerabilidade ao aliciamento Descobrir o risco de envolvimento com trabalho escravo não é mais como procurar agulha num palheiro. Com o Atlas do Trabalho Escravo no […]
Earth Institute: World Happiness Report
We live in an age of stark contradictions. The world enjoys technologies of unimaginable sophistication; yet has at least one billion people without enough to eat each day. The world economy is propelled to soaring new heights of productivity through ongoing technological and organizational advance; yet is relentlessly destroying the natural environment in the process. […]
9 good reasons why environmentalists should call themselves economists (and one apparently bad one)
Let’s star with the apparently bad one… Economists!? Please god, no. A thousand times, no. Why on earth would environmentalists, who come in all shapes, sizes and disciplines, want to be named after the ‘dismal scientists” ((to paraphrase Thomas Carlyle)? We might as well call ourselves bankers. But that might not be a bad thing […]
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