By Julia Day, STEPS Centre communications manager Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates was asked by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to investigate finance for development and to report back to the G20 in…
INNOVATION WITH IMPACT?
UK PRIME MINISTER URGED TO ATTEND RIO+20
By Julia Day, STEPS Centre Communications Manager “The Prime Minister should promise to attend next year’s Rio + 20 Earth Summit to show leadership on sustainability and strengthen global political…
BELLAGIO: THE FUTURE OF PHILANTHROPY
By ADRIAN ELY, STEPS Centre researcher I was lucky enough to participate in a fascinating discussion on global governance and regulation, organised as part of the Bellagio Initiative last week….
LAND GRABS: CALL FOR NEW GRANT APPLICATIONS
By Julia Day, STEPS Centre Communications Manager Across the world, especially in the global South, there has been a dramatic rise in ‘land grabs’ – cross-border, transnational corporation-driven and, in…
RISKY ADVICE AND UNCERTAINTY
Andy Stirling, STEPS Director and Alister Scott, visiting fellow at SPRU, have an article up at Project Syndicate (and on the Al Jazeera website) on recent technological disasters (Fukushima, BP…
ANDY STIRLING ON SCIENCE & SCEPTICISM
After the UK Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser, John Beddington, called for scientists to be “grossly intolerant” of pseudo-science The point is that the basic aspirational principles of science offer the…
SCIENCE AND DEMOCRACY: GATHERING MOMENTUM?
By Adrian Ely, Manifesto project convenor The Science and Democracy World Forum is part of a growing movement responding to the challenges of sustainability and development. At this year’s event…
BONO, BRANDS AND AID
Lisa Ann Richey, Professor of International Development Studies at Roskilde University, will be talking about aid partnerships, RED and “aid celebrities” in the next STEPS Centre seminar on 25 November….
HUNGRY FOR RESULTS?
By John Thompson, STEPS Centre Food and Agriculture Convenor In advance of the UN Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Summit in New York on 20-22 September, the United Nations Food and…
NEW MANIFESTO: INTENTIONS INTO ACTION
By Satchida Rana, MA Science, Society and Development student. At the launch of the New Manifesto on 15 June, there were some great discussions about the future of innovation for…