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Is COP28 a boon or bane of the world?
News, Published on 08/01/2024
» The developments and challenges posed at the 28th annual Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change evoke the words of F Scott Fitzgerald on being "able to see that things are hopeless yet determined to make them otherwise".
It's time to listen to indigenous voices
Oped, Published on 26/10/2023
» The voices, wisdom and priorities of indigenous peoples and local communities are central to the evolution of carbon markets and the urgent transition to sustainable forest landscapes.
COP27: The good, bad and the ugly
Oped, Published on 10/12/2022
» COP27 could be called largely uninspiring; a plateau in progress marked by periodic bright points. It also represented an effective transition to a new dynamic as the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) moved beyond negotiations to a broader coalition of those willing to implement agreements from previous UN climate talks.
With social media and academia, villagers save ancestral forest
Published on 29/09/2020
» CHIANG RAI: The villagers of Ban Boon Rueang in Chiang Khong district of this northern province had long known that they benefited from the community wetland forest that supplied them with fish and firewood, but it wasn't until devastating floods in 2010 that they realised just how much.
Pompeo's Israel visit was to push for annexation
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 15/05/2020
» Israel's new two-headed government, with Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister, was supposed to be sworn in on Wednesday. Then suddenly the inauguration was postponed by one day to accommodate a quick visit by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. What brought Mr Pompeo so far for so short a time?
Key to controlling wildfires lies with communities
Oped, Published on 23/04/2020
» While attention is focused on the coronavirus pandemic, we must also be alert to another fast-spreading hazard claiming lives — wildfires.
Bibi, Benny and Ruvi: Israel's future
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 13/03/2020
» Benjamin Netanyahu, or "Bibi" as everyone calls him, is the longest-serving prime minister in Israel's history, and still in office although he has failed to win three elections in a row. Last June, last September, and again early this month, Israeli voters split their votes in ways that made it almost impossible to put together a new government.
Asia's rapid urbanisation, deforestation linked to deadly viruses
Published on 11/03/2020
» The rapid pace of deforestation, urbanisation and road building are major factors in the spread of infectious diseases across Asia, including the coronavirus, health and environment experts said on Wednesday.
Tribalism fuels today's politics
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 15/11/2019
» 'Homo economicus" is dead. Long live "homo tribuarius"!
Netanyahu has nearly finished his grim mission
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 16/09/2019
» Benjamin Netanyahu's work is almost done. If he wins tomorrow's election and forms yet another government (he is now the longest-serving Israeli prime minister), he will put a stake through the heart of the "two-state solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that was born in the 1993 Oslo peace accords. Hamas should send him a gold watch for long service.