By Julia Day As December’s UN conference on climate change creeps ever closer, an exclusive story in today’s Guardian reveals that a dispute bewteen the US and Europe over treaty…
COUNTDOWN TO COPENHAGEN: 82 DAYS TO GO
BEYOND BIOSAFETY
In developing countries, debates around transgenic crops have tended to focus on biosafety and its regulation at the risk of ignoring broader ethical concerns. A new project by the STEPS…
WORLD WATER WEEK, FRI: WATER ACROSS BORDERS
By Julia Day Delegates arrived today slightly weary from a week of networking (or last evening’s Royal Banquet festivities with Sweden’s Orlando Bloom-alike Prince). Nonetheless it is a good turnout…
WORLD WATER WEEK, THURS: TOWARDS COP-15
By Julia Day It is the turn of the big-hitters this afternoon, with a panel made up of water Ministers from around the world. They were tasked with revealing how…
WORLD WATER WEEK: PHOTOS
Have a look at some of our photos from World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden.
WORLD WATER WEEK – THURSDAY – WATER & CLIMATE
By Julia Day Despite being organised to within an inch of its life here at the Stockholmsmassan conference centre, World Water Week’s morning sessions are already running behind. Has there…
WORLD WATER WEEK, STOCKHOLM
By Julia Day Here in the Swedish capital of Stockholm the 19th annual World Water Week is in full swing. Having only arrived this evening, there is a lot to…
NATURE ARTICLE ON GM FROM STEPS
Ian Scoones, co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre and Dominic Glover of the Technology and Agrarian Development Group at Wageningen University have written an article in this week’s Nature magazine…
NEW PROJECT: BEYOND BIOSAFETY
By Julia Day, STEPS Centre member The STEPS Centre is launching a new pilot project, Beyond Biosafety, aimed at opening up debates about biosafety. The project focusses on Kenya and…
A BRITISH FOOD REVOLUTION?
By Julia Day The UK government has today called for an “radical rethink” of food production in the country. And unsurprisingly, genetically modified crops are at the centre of the…