Blog Posts tagged with : Europe
Aviation emissions: another climate tragedy in the making?
Posted by on Mar 13, 2012Several months into the European Union aviation emissions battle, it’s still not clear who will blink first: the EU or the 20-odd countries lined up against it. Regardless of how the sides have tried to point fingers and posture, this is a fight that isn’t really about right and wrong; rather it’s a sad story about how hard it is for people to move bey...
It's the economy, stupid: In search of a new development model
Posted by on Feb 02, 2012Now that another massive global gathering has convened and decamped – last month Durban, this month Davos – that sinking feeling has already returned to taunt those of us looking, albeit from afar, for some real solutions. In Durban, with all the evidence on climate change, leaders could only agree to think about an agreement on carbon emissions ta...
Resolution for 2012: Do not extrapolate!
Posted by on Jan 02, 2012The year 2011 ended with the announcement that Brazil had overtaken the UK as the world’s sixth biggest economy. Today this may seem like an interesting, possibly revealing, but hardly earth-shattering piece of news. It is a confirmation of the global economic seismic shifts [more] that have been occurring over the last decade. Even 20 or 3...
The European Diversity Myth: A View from Asia
Posted by on Dec 20, 2011The EU has in recent decades sought to project itself as a model of good governance and has been prone to lecture others, including Asians, on governance-related issues. The current crisis however is exposing deep fault lines. The current drama should give pause to put things in perspective and also to reflect upon what Europeans can learn from Asians, as op...
The Cannes summit failure: there is far too much "Europe" in the G20
Posted by on Oct 16, 2011The Cannes G20 summit was an unmitigated failure. Since it was exclusively a Euro-centric European affair, one wonders why the others turned up. Real global issues – climate change, the monetary system, food security, migration, poverty, trade protectionism, etc – were not addressed, except in a prepared, pre-packaged, sanitized communiqué full of predi...
