Posts Tagged ‘recession’

• UN says that the current financial crisis could hasten green growth

  Yvo de Boer, who heads the Bonn-based U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, is a bit more optimistic about the current financial crisis than George Monbiot is. Yvo de Boer says that the current financial crisis could “hasten” countries efforts to create …

• Green Forum: Interesting topics for week 34

  I hope you haven’t missed our environment forum where you can interact with other like-minded people and discuss everything imaginable. We also plant trees for every hundred members that sign up for a free forum account. So really, there is …

• George Monbiot: “The pale green political consensus looks unlikely to hold”

  George Monbiot talks about oil-dependent countries focusing all their powers on “growth at all costs” while the world slides into recession, over at the Guardian. “If the world is sliding into recession, it’s partly because governments believed that they could …