Zuma: Trade key to African growth Independent online Trade between African countries would reduce poverty and stimulate economic growth, President Jacob Zuma said in Ethiopia on Saturday. | “Intra and inter-regional trade is not an option, it is an imperative,” Zuma said in a speech planned for delivery at the 26th New Partnership for Afri...
Caroline Spelman's speech on Rio+20 summit - full text The Guardian | UK environment secretary addresses businesses and charities at London's Guildhall | • Set greener goals at Rio+20: Caroline Spelman | Ladies and Gentleman, thank you for joining us this morning. | In four months' time, the world will meet to plot...
BASIC group to firm up climate strategy on Feb 13, 14 The Times Of India NEW DELHI: Ministers of South Africa, Brazil, China and India - the BASIC group - will meet here on February 13-14 to chalk out a joint strategy for the post-2020 global climate regime. | The meeting of the group, which was the most prominent block o...
Carbon bubble: Bank of England's opportunity to tackle market failure The Guardian | Bank's willingness to consider fossil fuel exposure as a risk to financial stability will serve as an important test of whether anything has been learned from the sub-prime crisis The Bank of England has set out its criteria for what constitutes a ...
New woes for developing nations The Star | A South Centre conference last week warned that developing countries could be badly hit by the new global downturn, and also discussed the state of WTO negotiations. | THE global economic downturn and the international negotiations on trade and cli...
What About the State of Our Planet, Mr. President? CounterPunch | In his state of the union address this week, President Obama talked about the American promise - the promise that if you worked hard, you could do well enough to raise a family, own a home, send your kids to college, and put a little away for ret...
Construction criticism casts the spotlight on intra-African trade The Guardian | The AU's Chinese-built base is not only a source of controversy but also a symbol of the challenge facing African enterprise | • Interactive: Africa's top trade groups The African Union's Addis Ababa headquarters, scene of the AU summit, are a so...
EU sent 50 MEPs to Congo for eight days at cost of £850,000 The Daily Telegraph The European Parliament spent over £850,000 sending 50 MEPs for an eight-day trip to the Congo in 2010, according to a list of its most expensive foreign delegations. | In July, 13 of the ACP-EU MEPs travelled to the Seychelles for a five-day t...
Ricky Ponting Back In Charge Sporting Life | Ricky Ponting is to captain Australia again after national selector John Inverarity installed him as skipper for this Friday's one-day meeting with Sri Lanka in Sydney. | With current leader Michael Clarke ruled out with a hamstring injury, Inverarity has turned to 37-year-old Ponting, who stepped down as captain after a highly-successful tenure ...
American Airlines to cut 13,000 jobs Al Jazeera | The parent company of American Airlines says it needs to eliminate about 13,000 jobs, as one of the largest US airlines remakes itself under bankruptcy protection. | Thomas W Horton, chief executive of AMR Corp, said on Wednesday that the company hoped to return to profitability by cutting spending by more than $2bn per year and raising revenue b...
