100 world leaders reportedly attended last Tuesday’s session at the United Nations Climate Summit and were joined by Leonardo DiCaprio who has been named the UN’s Ambassador for Peace for the next year. Since 1998 Dicaprio, like his character Jay Gatsby, has earned respectability and praise by spending part of his fortune estimated at $220 million. While […]
Scotland and Catalunya
Two of the differences between Scotland and Catalonia is that the Scottish vote was in fact a binding referendum and the debate was based on ideas while in Catolonia the “consulta” is not binding and the debate is much more emotional …
American Leadership
Obama has announced a strategy to “degrade and destroy” ISIL and calls it an example of American Leadership, while Al Gore maintains that the lack of such Leadership is making it difficult for the world to deal with critical problems …
Licence to Operate
Anglo American’s giant iron ore mine in Brazil, Minas Rio, required extensive legal work to obtain its needed permits but also a dedicated program of social outreach
Marina Silva and Brazil’s Environment
This week I found myself crisscrossing Brazil with stops in Belo Horizonte, Curitiba and Brazilia. The tragic death of Presidential candidate Eduardo Campos has opened the way for his running mate, Marina Silva to lead the ticket for Brazil’s Socialist Party. Marina, as everyone in Brazil calls her, who once ran under the green party […]