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chinadialogue features expert analysis of key climate negotiations
LONDON – As a critical UN climate conference gets underway, what China does will be a key determinant of a successful outcome. You can follow what China wants, understand China's priorities and engage with experts 
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While some view the negative impacts of economics and environment as separate, Herve Kempf sees financial inequality and environmental destruction as inextricably linked. The author of How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth, Kempf explains how the wealthy of the world are living
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Thomas Beschorner, DAAD Professor at the Centre canadien d'études allemandes et européennes, Université de Montréal and research director of CSR NEWS, analyzes the current financial crisis from an ethical point of view. First, he argues that the origin of the financial crises is
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At the G-20 Summit addressing the global financial crisis this weekend, the government leaders of the world's largest economies essentially twiddled their thumbs, punting on setting ambitious goals until April 2009 -- when the Barack Obama Administration, which is dedicated to addressing the
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What's behind the rise in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's? Lifetime exposure to toxic chemicals in the environment such as fossil fuel pollution, as it turns out. This according to a new report from the Science and Environmental Health Network and Greater Boston Physicians for
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As icecaps and global markets melt down, localism is rising up as a solution to our ecological and economic crises. United for a Fair Economy and Class Action, two national nonprofits based in Massachusetts that address the inequitable distribution of resources, are sponsoring
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We reported last week that Barack Obama will regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act if elected. Not so for John McCain. Today writer and scientist Joseph Romm wrote on his blog Climate Progess, that a McCain-Palin administration would
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You could see the global market meltdown coming a mile away, according to futurist Hazel Henderson of Ethical Markets. She's been identifying fatal flaws in the global economy, and sustainable alternatives, for three decades. Her most recent commentary on CSRwire critiques the "fractional
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Plan A -- the business-as-usual, free-market, capitalist economy -- is clearly breaking down, causing meltdowns of global markets AND polar icecaps. Time for Plan B. That's the title of the book by Earth Policy Institute Founding President Lester Brown, published five years ago.
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It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. Yogi Berra said that. He also said, the future ain't what it used to be. For Glen Hiemstra, the future holds the key to current planning. The founder of the website futurist.com, Hiemstra consults
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The meltdown on Wall Street has many people asking, how come the government can find hundreds of billions to bailout the guys who brought us this mess--but always claims there's no money to save homeowners from foreclosure, provide health insurance to those who
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In this special preview edition of this week's show, CWR co-hosts Francesca Rheannon and Bill Baue interview US Representative (D-MA) Barney Frank, chair of the House Financial Services Committee that is now ushering the Troubled Asset Relief Program bill, or TARP, through Congress.
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The market meltdown is spurring an urgent response from Congress, with both houses debating and revising versions of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) bill on an hourly basis. The bill revises the President's proposed bailout of financial institutions, which some call "Cash
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We woke up this week to find Lehman Brothers, the venerable bank founded over a century ago, belly up, and Merrill Lynch merged with Bank of America in a shot-gun wedding. And late last night, the Fed announced it had taken control the
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This week CWR rebroadcasts a show from earlier this year that got great feedback. CWR co-host Bill Baue spoke with Michael Conroy, author of Branded! How the "Certification Revolution" is Transforming Global Corporations. Conroy discusses how activist campaigning for improved corporate social and
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In June, the Century Foundation and the The New York Times Foundation invited Corporate Watchdog Radio to a seminar for a select handful of journalists on "Billionaires and Their Impact." There, CWR co-host Francesca Rheannon heard Chuck Collins speak on a panel about
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The Democratic party has shied away from linking clean energy, the economy, and the environment since Jimmy Carter's 1977 Energy Policy. But the political winds are changing. At Tuesday evening's Democratic National Convention, almost all of the speakers hit on the theme of
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Climate change, racial discrimination, and economic recession may seem impossible to solve. But building a green economy could do the trick. The beauty of the green economy is that it could tackle all these problems at the same time. But only if labor
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The World Bank Group's mission is to reduce poverty. The Bank also works toward environmental sustainability. What's the link between them, and does its practice on the ground promote both priorities? That's the question posed by the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group or
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Dean Cycon has long believed in using business to promote social justice, and Fair Trade is his bailiwick. As founder and CEO of Dean's Beans Organic Coffee, he's helped small coffee farmers around the world get a fairer price for their product. From
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