The women of Cochabamba, Bolivia, play a fundamental role in protecting water. Neoliberal policies have led to greater male migration, resulting in the feminisation of rural areas, with women carrying out much of the paid and unpaid work. This paper focuses on the conflict over the privatisation of water services in Cochabamba in 2000, where a popular movement successfully fought for their rights to the natural resource.

Between February and May 2008, 'hunger riots' erupted in the South - particularly in African countries such as Senegal, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Egypt, Algeria, the Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Madagascar and Cameroon. The riots have provided a clear warning that populations can no longer face the increasing prices of basic food products - such as rice, groundnut oil, potatoes and corn.

Despite its status and development within the United Nations international system, climate change policy-making has failed to adopt a gender-sensitive strategy. This failure not only generates concern in terms of respect for gender equity at the international level, it also leads to shortcomings in the efficiency and effectiveness of climate related measures and instruments. Without a gender-sensitive method of analysis, it is impossible to determine the full set of causes and potential effects of climate change.

This paper presents the research and learning approach of a World Bank study, and offers emerging findings on policy, as well as institutional questions surrounding adaptation arenas in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Ghana and Mozambique.

Climate change is forcing societies to work together to find ways of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to acceptable levels. More critically, the current focus on climate change highlights how resource scarcity and the unequal allocation of resources are linked to the success (or failure) of international development.To date, society has treated the mitigation of climate
change (taking actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions) as an isolated
problem. There has been little debate about the costs to society of allocating

As the market for electrical and electronic products grows rapidly, the lifespan of products is dropping. Some developed world governments are promoting recycling and starting to require that manufacturers safely dispose products at the end of their working life. However, China and India have yet to address the explosion in ‘e-waste’ – electronic scrap – much of it imported from countries with stricter regulations.A report from Greenpeace International shows
that e-waste
recycling in Asia remains largely unregulated and its impact on recycling workers,

Small islands are responsible for few greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but they will experience the worst effects through sea level rise and water shortages. Small islands must act now to be ready for these changes.Adaptation is the process by which communities prepare
for and cope with changes in the climate. Many small islands, represented
through the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), are demanding assistance
from industrialised nations for this process. Research from the University of
East Anglia, UK in collaboration with the Caribbean Community Climate Change

This report provides a detailed overview of the national circumstances, emission levels, mitigation potential and measures for the major developing countries of Brazil, China, India, Mexico, South Africa and South Korea.These countries account for more than 50% of non-Annex I parties’ emissions.