The Rigged Game of Climate Talks

Staff / Truthdig Dec 4, 2010 An NGO report has found that key U.N. climate negotiations are institutionally biased against poorer nations, specifically that underdeveloped countries are less able to send delegates to meetings and often cannot understand what is being discussed at the talks. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Fault Lines’: Climate Debt

Staff / Truthdig May 23, 2010 Check out the latest "Fault Lines" episode, in which Avi Lewis travels Bolivia to talk about climate change, climate debt and the current environmental movements in the global south that challenge our perceptions about climate and development. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Urgency After Copenhagen

Staff / Truthdig Apr 9, 2010 The developing world seems to get it: In the first climate change conference since Copenhagen, leaders from the Global South have said the need for a new worldwide climate change agreement is "greater than ever." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Forgiving Haiti’s Debt

Staff / Truthdig Feb 7, 2010 Call it pity or call it sensible politics, the G-7 nations have together pledged to cancel $1.2 billion in debt that Haiti owes them, something Global South activists have been requesting for all developing countries -- not just those hit by horrible earthquakes. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Massive Malaria Vaccine Trial Begins

Staff / Truthdig Nov 7, 2009 A new vaccine trial is underway in Africa in an attempt to control malaria, a disease that not only kills 1 million people every year, but also makes 300 million seriously sick. If the trial results come back positive, a worldwide vaccine could be available as soon as 2012. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

EU Agrees to Pre-Copenhagen Deal

Staff / Truthdig Oct 30, 2009 It looks like the EU is anteing up for December's Copenhagen conference on global warming, agreeing to a conditional deal that estimates climate change will need almost $150 billion every year until 2020, and that the EU is prepared to pay its "fair share" -- though poorer countries say it's still not enough. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

G-20 Muscles G-7 Aside

Staff / Truthdig Sep 25, 2009 It looks like the G-20 is set to permanently replace the G-7 as the world's dominant economic forum, an indirect admission that there was something unfair about the world's seven wealthiest countries deciding economic policy for the entire globe. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

S. African Strike Threatens World Cup

Staff / Truthdig Jul 8, 2009 Talk about a trump card. The 2010 World Cup in South Africa is set to be a momentous occasion for the country to show itself off to the world. But a strike by 70,000 construction workers demanding pay increases has halted work on the stadiums being built for the tournament. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

China Eludes Greenhouse Limits

Staff / Truthdig Jun 12, 2009 There's movement toward a global agreement on climate change, with the U.S. rescinding its demand that China commit to greenhouse gas emissions at the level of those in already-developed countries. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Climate Change Kills

Staff / Truthdig May 29, 2009 Researchers have issued a report declaring that climate change is already killing 300,000 people a year and that the number will only increase as heat, flood, storm and fire combine to create "the greatest humanitarian challenge the world faces." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Cholera Plagues Zimbabwe

Staff / Truthdig May 27, 2009 Cholera, the scourge of centuries past, has infected 100,000 people in Zimbabwe, dwarfing the body count of the much better publicized swine flu and demonstrating once again the dramatic and tragic inequality of health care in many parts of the developing world. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

G-20 vs. 6 Billion

Staff / Truthdig Apr 1, 2009 No matter how trite it has become for the media to focus on the "clashes" and "violence" that have "erupted" at the G-20 demonstrations in London, stories on the economic summit seem to overlook the legitimate concerns that protesters have against the world's 20 largest economies orchestrating macroeconomic policy for the rest of the world. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )