climate

• Copenhagen Accord Pledges Us$ 30 Billion in Climate Aid Funding

The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen highlighted the divide between developed and developing nations in finding a global solution to climate...

• International Trade Forum
• Num. 4, Octobre 2009

• Eco-nomic investments: as soon as climate change began gaining recognition as the main challenge facing humanity, it was unexpectedly overshadowed by turmoil in the global economy. Now we face two huge hurdles. Could greener investing offer a ray of hope for both these problems?

Earlier this year, Greenpeace and the European Renewable Energy Council (EREC) stated that the renewable power industry could support 8.5 million jobs...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2011, Janvier 2011

• Biofuels and Wto Disciplines

Given the sharp rise in crude oil prices and growing awareness of climate change, the potential of biofuels, particularly of bioethanol, has become an ubiquitous topic of public debate and has induced ambitious policy initiatives. The latter are mostly paired with protectionist measures as the examples of the European Union and the United States show, where domestic producers of energy crops are put at an advantage thanks to subsidisation, direct payments and/or favourable tax schemes. Moreover, the EU is working out a mandatory certification scheme for ethanol imports, imposing social and environmental standards which constitute another hurdle for more efficiently produced ethanol originating in the Southern hemisphere. A similar path is taken by Switzerland's revised mineral oil tax l...

• Aussenwirtschaft; Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtshaftsbeziehungen
• Vol. 63 Num. 1, Mars 2008

• Responsible investing: global business leaders, together with governments and climate specialists, recently drew up a comprehensive set of recommendations for global climate policy. Called the Green Investing report, it was unveiled at the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos earlier this year.

The Green Investing: Towards a Clean Energy Infrastructure report outlines the scale of investments needed to develop a clean energy infrastructure an...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2009, Janvier 2009

• Fighting in sand land: operating in the harsh climate of desert regions poses many challenges for military forces. Extreme desert climates and terrain can test both man and machine to the limit.

Severe extremes of heat, dust, sun and sand are the major challenges facing armies operating in desert regions, requiring specialist tactics, equipmen...

• Armada International
• Vol. 26 Num. 6, Décembre 2002

• The Power of Design in Global Development

In an interview, Jocelyn Wyatt, head of IDEO's social innovation design domain, talked about the power of design to change the world. IDEO began 30 years ago by designing products. However, over time they've applied the approach of human-centered design to services, spaces, businesses and systems. They believe in the power of design thinking to enrich and transform, and to take on big challenges that the world faces, from climate change to education and health care to financial inclusion. They are currently working with Acumen Fund on a water project in India and Kenya. They have developed a social marketing campaign to spread awareness about the importance of drinking safe water and a water delivery business and cart for female micro-entrepreneurs to deliver water in slum communities. ...

• International Trade Forum
• Num. 3, Juillet - Juillet - Juillet 2010

• A Cut Above

What makes Helena's approach interesting is that she doesn't look to the design climate to tell her what she should create. Her ambition is not to find the hot new trend but to make well-made, beautiful garments. She is self-taught, which gives her a different kind of relationship to the clothes. "We have sewing classes in Sweden (starting) when you are 10, so that's where I learned the basics, and then I just kind of cut apart and opened pieces and figured out how things were constructed. I am always that kind of person who likes to know how things are put together. I want to understand everything... I want to figure out why things are the way they are and look the way they do, and I think that's part of figuring out how a garment is constructed and learning why certain shapes fall the...

• Nordic Reach
• Vol. 20 Num. 22, Septembre 2007
• The Locals

• The Government Perspective: Boosting Trade and Investment

The G20 London Summit took place at a time of unprecedented economic challenge for world leaders and, fittingly, world leaders agreed on unprecedented action to face these challenges. They know that keeping global markets open and fair is essential in a climate where international trade flows are falling sharply. Leaders' personal commitment to prioritize the Doha Round demonstrated a desire to boost international trade and guard against protectionism. The UK has been a pioneer in linking trade and development and it has championed Aid for Trade, which aims to help developing countries unlock potential to trade and grow.

• International Trade Forum
• Num. 1, Janvier 2009

• Troubled water helps climate forecasting.

Researchers at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne have produced new estimates of how the sun's energy is absorbed by water in the atmosph...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2002, Juin 2002

• Sustainable investing: the term 'sustainability is widely used to describe a way of prolonging human economic activities with fewer impacts on ecological systems--in particular, those resulting in climate change, oil depletion or poverty.

One of most common definitions of sustainability is the one given by the former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, who saidsustainable de...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2008, Avril 2008