Explore Our Planet

Every year since 1990, the UNDP has commissioned the Human Development Report by an independent team of experts to explore major issues of global concern.

Last year report focusses the global water crisis and investigates the underlying causes and consequences of a crisis that leaves 1.2 billion people without access to safe water and 2.6 billion without access to sanitation.

Water is a source of life, but in a world of unprecedented wealth, almost 2 million children die each year for want of a glass of clean water. The report projects stronger consequences, if Global Warming and Climate Change remains untackled. (more…)

Latest Rough Guide on Climate Change publishing was accompanied by a letter to all MPs with three simple questions:

How important a concern is climate change?

What can Britain do to make a difference?

What steps do you plan to take (or have you taken), in your constituency, and as an individual?

About half of them answered (MP Gordon Brown not) and the Independent highlights the response from MP Richard Benyon (Newbury, Conservative) as an average:

“Climate Change is the defining issue of our age. Previous generations had to deal with the rise of Nazism or communism. This is the issue on which my generation of politicians will be judged. This is our Dunkirk.”

All reponses are listed at roughguides.com/mps/fullreplies.htm