Get your teeth into development issues. Opinion and comment from Progressio

If it’s Monday, it must be the Labour Party conference…past the x-ray machines and gun-toting police and into  a melee of party activists, MPs, ministers and cameras. On the main stage,…
admin, 29th September 2009
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I attended a lecture by former Prime Minister Tony Blair this week on the theme of faith and development.   But many of his points struck home. He said…
Progressio, 7th September 2009
“Are you a climate leader?” asked the green alien as I approached the Gran Via conference centre on our last day of climate change negotiations.   “We are from planet B.  Our planet…
admin, 11th June 2009
This morning I reluctantly left the Barcelona sunshine and entered the convention centre where the UNFCCC is meeting for the last round of negotiations before Copenhagen.  Like many delegates, I…
admin, 11th April 2009
  What does climate change really mean for impoverished people in developing countries? Ángel Maria Ibarra Turcios, Director of an environmental organisation in El Salvador (Progressio partner…
admin, 29th March 2009
So what can we really do about climate change? We need to recognise our shared responsibility, says Ángel Maria Ibarra Turcios, director of an environmental organisation in El Salvador (Progressio…
admin, 9th January 2009