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哥本哈根：又一轮“隆重登场却无确定结果”的气候峰会

December 21, 2009
正如许多人所担心的，本次联合国气候变化大会仅通过了一项软弱无力的协议，勉强能称为“一个开端”。环境经济学家斯科特•巴雷特（Scott Barrett）指出，此前为应对环境问题而举行的类似会议也同样被称作为“开端”，但这些会议并未取得任何实质性成果。在哥本哈根，尽管谈判持续了很长时间，但最终结果却是一纸篇幅很短的协议文本，它反映了发达国家和发展中国家两大阵营各自的提议所能达到的“最小公分母”（lowest-common- denominator）妥协。《哥本哈根协议》（Copenhagen agreement）是一项政治声明，而不是类似《京都议定书》（Kyoto Protocol）...

Globalisation Focus Shifts from Costs to Customers

January 30, 2006
Survey results released at this week’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos suggest that the orientation of global business is shifting. Companies no longer regard large developing countries like China, India and Brazil as merely sources of cheap labor. A survey of executives...

China Hosts Summit to Rival US

June 15, 2006
China hosted an “A-list” gathering of international leaders, with a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Representatives included Chinese Presient Hu Jintao, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The SCO, formed ten years ago, “is designed to...

Surprising But True, US Exports Are Growing

Edward Gresser
December 7, 2010

Migration: Illegal But Integral to Economy

January 25, 2006
Europeans often blame illegal immigrants for a number of social ills, including high rates of crime and unemployment. Yet “people with irregular status” are the invisible bedrock for many social institutions in the developed world, suggests this article in Terraviva Europe. Without the work of...

Muslims Lash Out at Pope's Remarks

September 15, 2006
Muslim clerics and leaders have lashed out at criticism from Pope Benedict XVI about Islam and the concept of “jihad.” Some Muslim pundits suggest that the criticism was steeped in arrogance, considering that the Catholic Church sponsored ample bloodshed over the centuries. The Muslim Brotherhood...

Strict CO2 Limits Will Send Work Abroad

August 20, 2003
Strictly enforcing a new emissions policy could cause a mass exodus of jobs and energy business from Britain. The German-owned energy company Innogy – one of the country's largest energy suppliers – is concerned that the United Kingdom will apply the EU's new carbon emissions trading...

Shiite-Sunni Conflict Rises in Pakistan

February 6, 2007
Many Muslim nations, despite their varying proportions of Shiites and Sunnis, have seen the representatives of both religious sects banding together to pray, even when one sect constitutes a minority presence in the government. However, many analysts fear that sectarian violence in Baghdad could...
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