Global South

The Government of India has recently come up with a National REDD+ policy. This short article mainly responds to that draft and the accompanying “Reference Document for REDD plus in India” (Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, August 2013, hereafter RD).

Financialized policy is ubiquitous across a wide range of environmental policy areas, such as carbon trading or biodiversity offsets, but contributes little to averting climate catastrophe.

INTRODUCTION

Tanzania’s general elections were held on 25 October 2015 after about two months of electioneering. The ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) emerged victorious in the Union elections with 58.49% of the presidential vote and a parliamentary majority.

The gruesome terrorist attacks in Paris have left the world shaken. Not only were the attacks carried out with the precision of a surgeon, they occurred in one of the world’s most loved and safest cities.

Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate said, “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” I would add, “There must never be a time when we fail to protest the madness of politician wannabes and

The Asian dragon has emerged from typical developing country backwardness to the second largest economy in the world within four decades, regularly posting double-digit economic growth rates.

For the past few years, Russian authorities have taken steady and strategic steps at the possibility of pushing huge investments in lucrative sectors as ways to strengthen bilateral relations and expand economic cooperation in a number of African countries.

For two decades or so, the relationship between African countries and China has grown, and cooperation has been increasing in various areas, including media, culture and education.

The Indo-African partnership has been rooted in the spirit of the Afro-Asian conference held at Bandung, Indonesia, in 1955.