Environment And Ecosystems News

Fair Trade and Smart Energy Message Taken to Ohio
August 11, 2025 - Sierra Club
On June 7th, the Sierra Club joined the United Steelworkers (USW), the largest private sector manufacturing union, to pursue a joint message of "Good Jobs, A Clean Environment, and A Safer World."  Go...

An organic foods dilemma
August 6, 2025 - Ann Cooper, Kate Adamick, SF Chronicle
They're mass-produced by agribiz but better than eating poisons.  Go...

The Poverty of Energy Security
July 14, 2025 - Neil Watkins and Steve Kretzmann, tompaine.com
When the G-8 met in Gleneagles last year, global poverty and climate change headlined the agenda. This weekend in St. Petersburg, energy security tops the list, and last year's priorities seem forgotten. The G-8 appears to define energy security primarily as promoting the expansion of oil production worldwide, which will only further increase oil dependence, exacerbate climate change and drive countries deeper into debt.  Go...

Talks suspended. ‘Today there are only losers.’
July 24, 2025 - World Trade Organization
The Doha Development Agenda negotiations are to be suspended because gaps between key players remain too wide. Heads of delegations, speaking in an informal meeting of the Trade Negotiations Committee on 24 July 2006, agreed with WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy that this will be a setback for all members.  Go...

India Inc disappointed by WTO, farmers relieved
July 24, 2025 - Financial Times
New Delhi, July 24: Indian business leaders said on Monday they were disappointed with the collapse of global free trade talks but a local farm group said it was relieved.  Go...

TRADE TALKS DEADLOCK BRINGS NEW HOPE FOR THE POOREST AND THE ENVIRONMENT
July 24, 2025 - Press Statement, Friends of the Earth International
Campaigners from Friends of the Earth International today welcomed the collapse of the World Trade Organisation (WTO)'s trade negotiations. This means that there is now time to review and reconsider the multilateral trading system in its entirety.  Go...

Why Today‚s Collapse of the Doha Round Negotiations is the Best Outcome for Developing Countries
July 24, 2025 - Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South
Bangkok, July 24—Today’s collapse of the Doha Round negotiations of the World Trade Organization in Geneva is one of the best things to happen to the developing world in a long while.  Go...

An Open Letter to Greg Palast on Peak Oil
July 9, 2025 - Richard Heinberg, Guerrilla News Network
A leading Peak Oil educator responds to claims the oil isn't running out.  Go...

PANNA Seeks New E.D.
May 11, 2025
Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) seeks an experienced and visionary professional for the position of Executive Director to provide leadership and oversee all program and administrative aspects of the organization.  Go...

Funder Convening on Globalization
June 1, 2025 - FNTG
New Perspectives, Key Strategies, Success Stories and Funder Opportunities

San Francisco Bay Area Evening of June 6 – June 8, 2025

Join a community of funders from diverse fields and perspectives to analyze global trends and the evolving discourse around globalization, to share and celebrate successful civil society strategies, and to discuss how funders can use our resources most effectively to support positive change in these most fundamental driving forces, both at home and abroad.

* Mapping the global economy, and exploring terrains of intervention

* The changing discourse on globalization: Where is it now and where is it going?

* Revisiting trade, poverty and development… with new data

* Globalization of human rights: Breakthroughs and continuing challenges

* Bringing it home: Local organizing in a global context

* International cooperation vs. global domination, for security in an insecure world

* Funder Opportunities: What does it all mean; how do we continue moving forward?

For program details and registration please click here:  Go...

Why Globalization Has Stalled
April 27, 2025 - Sebastian Mallaby, The Washington Post
A few years ago, anti-globalization rioters were clogging the streets, disrupting the meetings of the world's multilateral organizations. Today, something more serious is afoot.  Go...

WTO: EU broke trade rules by stopping genetically modified food imports
February 7, 2025 - Sam Cage, ASSOCIATED PRESS
GENEVA – The WTO has ruled that the EU broke international trade rules by stopping imports of genetically modified foods, officials said Tuesday.  Go...

The Greening of Goldman Sachs
January 3, 2025 - Traci Hukill, AlterNet
One of the world's leading investment banks concedes there are real financial costs to ignoring the environment -- and they don't intend to get stuck paying them.  Go...

Outcome of DOHA Round, WTO Cases Likely to Shape 2007 Farm Bill
September 12, 2024 - Inside US Trade
The 2007 farm bill will likely be shaped by the outcome of the Doha round, in which the U.S. is expected to have to cut its domestic subsidies linked to production, as well as implement a World Trade Organization ruling against U.S. cotton subsidies and other potential WTO challenges if they were successfully brought, according to U.S. observers.  Go...

U.N. Summit Cacophony Drowns Out Voices of Poor - Groups
September 13, 2024 - Abid Aslam, OneWorld.net
... ActionAid International, ... spent the past three months interviewing 340,000 villagers in 18 poor countries and compiling a report designed to bring their voices to New York in time for the Sep. 14-16 U.N. summit on poverty and the world body's future.  Go...

UN Fears an Unhappy Birthday as Rows Threaten Summit
September 13, 2024 - Anne Penketh, The Independent
The UN aimed to mark its 60th anniversary with deep reforms. Instead, rows overshadow this week's huge gathering of world leaders.  Go...

How to Help Poor Countries
August 1, 2025 - Nancy Birdsall, Dani Rodrik, and Arvind Subramanian, Foreign Affairs
The year 2005 has become the year of development. In September, at the UN Millennium Summit meeting of heads of state, in New York, leaders of wealthy nations will emphasize their commitment to deeper debt relief and increased aid programs for developing countries. The Millennium Development Goals, the centerpiece of the conference's program, call for halving the levels of world poverty and hunger by 2015. The summit will focus on increasing international aid to 0.7% of donors' gross national product to finance a doubling of aid transfers to especially needy areas, particularly in Africa. With respect to global trade, efforts will center on the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations and opening markets to important exports (such as cotton) from developing countries. The discussions will thus proceed based on two implicit but critical underlying assumptions: that wealthy nations can materially shape development in the poor world and that their efforts to do so should consist largely of providing resources to and trading opportunities for poor countries.  Go...

Under scrutiny, NGOs should relax and put their case patiently
China Development Brief
Chinese government concern over ‘colour revolutions’ in countries of the former Soviet Union has prompted an ongoing investigation of international NGOs that support work in China and of local organisations that receive funding from overseas (and especially from the USA).  Go...

Major Report Stresses Natural Resources as Path Out of Poverty
August 31, 2024
A report that challenges conventional approaches is released today at a critical moment in the battle against poverty. The report, World Resources 2005: The Wealth of the Poor: Managing Ecosystems to Fight Poverty, stresses the urgent need to look beyond aid projects, debt relief and trade reform and focus on local natural resources to address the crisis of poverty in all parts of the globe.  Go...

U.N. Millennium Summit in Danger of Being Hijacked
August 29, 2024 - Thalif Deen, Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 2 (IPS) - The 60-year-old United Nations, criticised for its inherent structural political flaws, is so preoccupied with restructuring itself that the upcoming Millennium Summit is in danger of losing sight of one of its primary goals: a plan of action to primarily eradicate extreme hunger and poverty by 2015.  Go...

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