11 videos tagged global governance
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James Leape
Can global agreements and governance work?
Many new global governance bodies, for example the UN or World Bank, have been developed over the past decades. However, as the world community begins to face challenges on a truly…
Recorded: 23 January 2008
Achim Steiner
How does climate change affect the way nations must work together?
The scale of challenges such as climate change means that nations must work together more closely. Achim Steiner believes global governance mechanisms must evolve to help the international…
Recorded: 22 January 2008
John Elkington
What is the triple bottom line ? (Part 2)
In this second clip, Elkington discusses the third wave that helped shape the corporate social responsibility movement. Taking place in the late nineties and early years of the…
Recorded: 30 May 2006
Nicholas Dunlop
What is the ‘e-parliament’ initiative?
Nicholas Dunlop describes how e-parliament works and why it is a much needed initiative. E-parliament is a global forum connecting 130 of the world’s democratically elected…
Recorded: 20 May 2006
Nicholas Dunlop
How can national parliaments best work together?
Dunlop maintains that there is a pressing need for better international response to challenges of the 21st Century such as climate change and AIDS. Old procedures for negotiating…
Recorded: 20 May 2006
Nicholas Dunlop
Did the Kyoto Protocol work?
The Kyoto Treaty shows the weaknesses of an archaic system of political negotiation. The process took far too long and the result was too feeble in its reach. Under the Kyoto proposals,…
Recorded: 20 May 2006
Richard Heinberg
How can humanity best cope with increasing oil scarcity? (Part 1)
Given its finite nature, oil has rapidly become a vital strategic resource. Wars have already been fought over it and we are likely to see more as the years pass. Conflict over…
Recorded: 19 October 2005
Richard Heinberg
how can humanity best cope with increasing oil scarcity? (Part 2)
Given its finite nature, oil has rapidly become a vital strategic resource. Wars have already been fought over it and we are likely to see more as the years pass. Conflict over…
Recorded: 19 October 2005
Aubrey Meyer
What is the fair way to deal with climate change?
In researching policy ideas to combat climate change during the 1990s, Meyer realized that global emissions could only be reduced to a safe level within a controlled international…
Recorded: 11 November 2004
Aubrey Meyer
What is the ‘Contraction and Convergence’ approach to tackling climate change? (part 3)
In the last of this series of three clips, Meyer talks about the fact that a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions may require a necessary slowing down of the global economy. He…
Recorded: 11 November 2004
Michael Meacher
How can humanity better respect the environment?
Michael Meacher MP addresses the theme of environmental governance. He begins by talking about the fragile nature of our Earth’s biosphere, with particular reference to James…
Recorded: 31 March 2004
