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Report on Geneva 2000

I just returned from Geneva and the UN Summit on poverty, unemployment and social exclusion, the 5-year update on the World Summit on Social Development (WSSD) held in Copenhagen in 1995 and headed again, by its Secretary General, Juan Somavia of Chile. No country has met the targets pledged in the Copenhagen Action Plan. UN …

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Global Energy Transition

“FROM THE FOSSIL FUEL ERA TO THE AGE OF LIGHT: Transition Strategies”by Hazel Henderson, futurist, economist and author Seminar on New World Trends and the Future of Oil and Energy CENTROPEP, Caracas, Venezuela June 12-14, 2000 © Hazel Henderson, June 2000 In my book, The Politics of the Solar Age (1981, 1988) I traced the …

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