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

Greens in the Irish Government – does it improve policy making on the environment?
It has been a remarkable political year in Ireland- economic depression, tripling of unemployment, halving of property prices, bankrupt banks and businesses and crippling imbalances between…
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22/10/2009 – 16:44
Conservative Party conference – postscript
Postscript to my last post on Greg Clark and climate change. Looks like I was wrong. For journalists on the Sun, climate change is “hardly a riveting topic”…..”save me the lecture, Greg” says Sun…
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13/10/2009 – 16:48
Labour Party conference: Time to pile on the pressure for Copenhagen
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,…
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29/09/2009 – 16:52
Alien Invasion
“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…
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11/06/2009 – 16:07
Barcelona UNFCCC: Clocks are ticking on climate change
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…
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11/04/2009 – 16:36
Copenhagen: The real meaning of climate change – a Southern voice
  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…
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29/03/2009 – 14:38
An end to the centuries of materialism in life – a Southern voice
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…
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09/01/2009 – 15:45