BizKnowledge Watch

The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs has just launched the study, Rethinking Poverty: Report on the World Social Situation 2010. The report seeks to contribute to rethinking poverty and its eradication. It stresses the urgent need for a strategic shift away from the market fundamentalist thinking, policies and practices of recent decades towards [...]

The WorldWatch Institute has just launched the study “Renewable Revolution: Low-Carbon Energy by 2030.” The report finds that climate change is fundamentally a development issue, not just a pollution problem. According to it, the study focuses on transforming the entire global energy system, supporting the idea of the transition to an energy-efficient and renewable world. [...]