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Editorials archive results 1-8 of 8 in Climate Change & Energy and Mitigation
Clean technology as a public good
Clean technology to meet poor communities' needs must lie at the heart of any sustainable strategy to combat climate change.
Reducing forest emissions needs good science
The climate change debate offers a way to integrate forest management into development policy, but strategies must be informed by good science.
Contract and converge: The path to sustainable growth
This week's G20 summit in London must ensure that any solution to the global financial crisis also commits to sustainable economic growth.
Promises, promises …
More efforts are needed to hold the leaders of the G8 nations to commitments made at their annual summit meetings.
EDITORIAL | 11 July 2008 | EN
Africa needs better data to combat global warming
Effective adaptation strategies will require reliable scientific data both on the nature of climate change and on its potential impact.
EDITORIAL | 1 August 2007 | EN
World Bank must show political independence
The row over the World Bank president's behaviour reinforces the need to safeguard its lending policies from ideological pressure.
EDITORIAL | 18 May 2007 | EN
Biofuel: a new opportunity for science collaboration?
The interest in Brazil's ethanol programme should be used to set up fairer partnerships between developing and developed countries.
Haiti's lessons for managing the global environment
Whether human activity should share any blame for the storms currently sweeping the Caribbean remains uncertain. What is not in doubt is that such activity has contributed significantly to the resulting devastation.
EDITORIAL | 27 September 2004 | EN
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Missed the Global Health Forum 2009?
Our blog, by SciDev.Net columnist Priya Shetty, will fill you in, as will our interview with the Global Forum's Gill Samuels
Just add water
Policymakers must improve water storage to help developing countries adapt to climate change
A climate for disease?
Will climate change worsen the burden of insect-borne disease? The scientific jury is still out
