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¿ESTÁ COMETIENDO Greenpeace un crimen contra la humanidad? Una carta de 113 premios Nobel lo sugiere. En ella, los laureados instan al grupo ecologista a abandonar su campaña contra los alimentos genéticamente modificados, especialmente contra el conocido como “arroz dorado”, que podría ayudar a evitar millones de muertes en países en vías de desarrollo.

I had the privilege of meeting the President of Colombia to discuss priorities for the implementation of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, last year. We had an excellent discussion about how to make the world a better place as well as achieving the most good for Colombia specifically.

In “Solar and wind are viable, not just ‘feel-good’ climate solutions” (Sept. 27), Jim Davidson made a Counterpoint to my recent arguments about green energy (“Feel-good solutions won’t solve climate change,” Sept. 22).

Davidson supports my championing of spending $100 billion a year on green energy R&D. He suggests that this is a new position. But I have in fact advocated it consistently for a decade, including in a front-page article in the British newspaper The Guardian in 2010.

Os Objectivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (ODS) das Nações Unidas incluem nas suas metas o ensino básico para todas as crianças, empregos para todos os adultos e a erradicação da fome e da pobreza. Estas aspirações são nobres, mas os custos envolvidos são muito elevados. Teremos verdadeirame

¿Está cometiendo Greenpeace un crimen contra la humanidad? Una carta de 113 premios Nobel lo sugiere. En ella, los laureados instan al grupo ecologista a abandonar su campaña contra los alimentos genéticamente modificados, especialmente contra el conocido como "arroz dorado", que podría ayudar a evitar millones de muertes en países en vías de desarrollo.

 Los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) de la Agenda 2030 de las Naciones Unidas incluyen educación en la escuela primaria para todos los niños, puestos de trabajo para todos los adultos y el fin del hambre y la pobreza. Estas son aspiraciones nobles, pero muy caras. ¿Podemos realmente pagar los costos de todas?

Med glavnimi cilji Združenih narodov na podlagi Agende 2030 za trajnostni razvoj so osnovnošolska izobrazba za vse otroke, službe za vse odrasle in konec lakote ter revščine. To so plemenita prizadevanja, vendar izjemno draga. Ali si jih resnično lahko privoščimo?

The next administration must recognize not only that climate change is a real problem but also that we are not on course to solve it. The next president needs the courage to discard our current feel-good but ineffective solutions. Ending our reliance on the fossil fuels that have powered two centuries of economic growth will require an energy revolution.

This week has seen debate rage about whether the Hinkley Point deal represents good value. But there is another vital element of energy policy that is not being discussed. For one of the key benefits of the vote to leave the European Union is that Britain will not longer have to cooperate with overzealous regulations on shale gas extraction, or fracking, which has the potential to transform the energy market.  

The 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals have among their objectives primary-school education for all children, jobs for all adults, and an end to hunger and poverty. These are noble aspirations – but very expensive. Can we really afford them all?

The OECD has estimated that meeting all 17 SDGs, which comprise 169 specific development targets, would cost $3.3-4.5 trillion annually – about the same as the United States’ 2016 federal budget, and far more than the nearly $132 billion spent globally on overseas development aid last year.