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Editorials archive results 1-4 of 4 in Climate Change & Energy and Energy policy
Clean technology to meet poor communities' needs must lie at the heart of any sustainable strategy to combat climate change.
A commitment to biofuels should be based on a careful assessment of their prospective benefits and costs, not a blind leap of faith.
A combination of factors appears to be pushing the risk-benefit balance back into nuclear's favour as an energy option for developing countries. SciDev.Net readers are invited to comment.
Last week's report of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment provides a timely reminder of the plight facing the global environment. But its scare tactics could alienate those whose support is needed to reverse current trends.
EDITORIAL | 4 April 2005 | EN
Our blog, by SciDev.Net columnist Priya Shetty, will fill you in, as will our interview with the Global Forum's Gill Samuels
Will climate change worsen the burden of insect-borne disease? The scientific jury is still out