Environment

King of the killer shot

Thursday, 19 January 2012 11:23

Behind the lens with Andy Casagrande

Great white sharks have been getting a bad rep of late, with a reported increase in attacks around the beaches of South Africa causing many a surfer to take up skateboarding. So why would anyone want to get out of a perfectly good cage and voluntarily free-dive with man’s most feared adversary? For award-winning National Geographic cinematographer Andy Casagrande, it is just another day at the office.

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Climate watch

Monday, 14 November 2011 15:22

The G20 missed an opportunity

Many climate change-experts have expressed the hope that the COP17-conference in Durban will deliver more practical outcomes than COP15 in Copenhagen and COP16 in Cancun. But they clearly have not paid much attention to the annual G20 meeting earlier in November 2011, or to the global carbon emissions of 2010.

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Worth a read

Tuesday, 25 October 2011 09:03

Loose: The Future of Business is Letting Go

Starting with the so-called Arab Spring which kicked off some 10 months ago in Tunisia before spreading across the North of Africa, through to the present Occupy Wall Street, which morphed into an Occupy the World trend (because it is not quite as formal as a movement), some of the most momentous events at the start of the second decade of the 21^st century have had a surprising feel of spontaneity about them. What the heck is happening?

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So where to, Kyoto?

Thursday, 20 October 2011 15:04

The African position

As the date for the COP 17 negotiations in Durban draws closer, the positions of the Parties become clearer, and a more accurate picture of what is at stake begins to emerge. Will Durban be the graveyard of the Kyoto Protocol, or will it be the birthplace of a second commitment period and a new era of optimism in the ability of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) multilateral process to take charge of runaway emissions and provide enough money for sorely needed adaptation measures in the world’s poorest countries?

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Scientific accountability

Monday, 26 September 2011 15:15

Where does liability start and end

Do the victims of a natural disaster have a legitimate claim against scientific experts who fail to adequately warn them beforehand about the dangers ahead or who give them badly judged assurances that there is not much to worry about and leave them ill-prepared when disaster strikes. An Italian court is about to decide on this question.

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