Global IssuesKenya 'becoming Economic Heartbeat Of Africa'
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
When Kenya’s newly announced geothermal power generation project comes online, it will turn the East African country into an economic powerhouse in the region.
Legal Challenges Counter Plans For New Nuclear Reactors
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Until this past February, the last time new nuclear power construction was approved in the United States was in 1978. But when the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approved two proposed nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle near Augusta, Georgia, on February 9 in a four to one vote, it took less than a week for the legal action to begin.
Q&A: Harnessing the African Information Renaissance
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
About 140 million Africans are now on the internet. With half of the population under age 15 and 70 percent of the population under 30, social media is becoming an important feature in the continent's development path.
Iceland Finds New Power In Farms
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
'With the fuel from the agriculture project, we are encouraging farmers to look at possibilities they might have to produce their own energy, while at the same time getting the Agricultural University and Farmers’ Association to work towards supporting and encouraging the farmers,' says Haraldur Benediktsson, chair of the Icelandic Farmers’ Association about the campaign to reduce energy bought by farmers by 20 percent by 2015 and 80 percent by 2020.
Intra-African Trade Or Global Integration: A Chicken-And-Egg Dilemma?
Monday, April 23, 2012
Though the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has long held that trade between African countries is too low, experts at the South Centre, an inter-governmental think tank of developing countries, say intra-continental trade is already significant in manufactured goods and promises a new path to industrialisation.
Argentina-Spain: Business Must Go On
Friday, April 20, 2012
Hundreds of Spanish companies continue to do business in Argentina, despite Madrid’s campaign in defence of Repsol, which controls YPF — the oil company that the government of Cristina Fernández plans to renationalise.
Caribbean: Turning Landfills into Energy
Friday, April 20, 2012
The tourist brochure shows pictures of lovely white sandy beaches, tall coconut trees and rolling mountains. Welcome to the Caribbean.
Challenges For Future Nationalised Oil Co. In Argentina
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
One of the big challenges facing the Argentine government in its plans to regain state control of the country's biggest oil firm, YPF, is to make up for the time lost under private management, when production and exploration fell.
Indonesian Farmers Burned In Biofuel Drive
Monday, April 16, 2012
Dreams of sending his children to quality schools have vanished for 40-year-old farmer Muslikin, as the father of three now struggles to repay the bank loan he took out to finance his jatropha plantation in 2006.
Op-Ed: Getting the Market to Tell the Truth
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Moving the global economy off its current decline-and-collapse path depends on reaching four goals: stabilising climate, stabilising population, eradicating poverty, and restoring the economy's natural support systems.
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