Glopolis is a non-partisan, non-governmental organization which focuses on the analysis of economic globalization, trade, development, agriculture and climate change.
Energy and Climate Change
Articles
1. 7. 2010
An article on current discussion of climate and energy policy in Finland.
22. 12. 2009
The Copenhagen Accord: one step forward, two steps back?
The representatives of 193 countries that negotiated for two weeks in Copenhagen on climate change did not produce good news for the rest of the world.
9. 7. 2009
The partial success of the Czech presidency of the Council of the European Union
Numerous foreign commentators have rated the recently concluded Czech presidency of the Council of the European Union as not overly successful. Tony Barber from the Financial Times wrote that the Czech presidency will soon be forgotten.
9. 7. 2009
The Czech presidency’s arduous path to a climate agreement
Climate change represents a significant risk to the global economy. Published this year in May, the Human Impact Report uses available facts and expert projections to claim that climate change is responsible each year for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people; furthermore, hundreds of millions more inhabitants of the planet are seriously threatened, and annual economic losses amount to 125 billion dollars.[1]
Publications
Glopolis issued a collection of essays Globalization and Development.
Prague NGO Declaration: Transforming the world in crisis
Participants of the conference The world in crisis: Economies and policies for global transformation, have discussed for three days in Prague the root causes, impacts and responses to the financial crises, economic meltdown, climate change, mismanagement of natural resource use, increasing inequity and volatile food and oil prices from the systemic perspective of the world's poor and vulnerable.
Money, Energy and Food under Control
Glopolis published a new study Money, Energy and Food under Control - The Responses of the Czech EU Presidency to the Global Crisis and Poverty.
World in Crisis: Securing economies and resources for poor countries
Glopolis and ActionAid present their joint reaction to the official programme of the Czech Presidency.
New briefing paper of Glopolis Food or Fuel? The potential of biofuels to put millions of poor people at risk and cause irreversible environmental damage.
Ministry of Foreign Affaires of the Czech Republic