On the Political Climate blog, Matthew Lockwood unpacks a big row over a new World Bank-supported mega coal-fired electricity plant in South Africa and has some good ideas for a ‘Carbon Trading Initiative’ to reduce carbon emissions in supply chains
Land grabs meet climate finance, and a dodgy Brit is arrested
A guide to football (sorry, soccer). For Americans, c/o the Onion
‘What to make of a conversation in which a government environment ministry employee, with the patience of a practiced teacher, explains (in French) the workings and importance of wildlife conservation (including a moratorium on all hunting), and then, just a few minutes later, yells (in Sangho) in favor of his right to hunt, a right he is prepared to fight to maintain?’ Louisa Lombard ponders people’s ability to hold simultaneous and contradictory views
Jim Stanford lays into Canada – the new international bad guy of choice on climate change and just about everything else – for its opposition as host of the G20 to any thought of a Robin Hood Tax
A wonderful tirade on the savage clown blog about the abuse of ‘Africa’ as a single convenient ‘other’ by the West
How Kenya’s M-PESA mobile phone money transfer system actually works – people moving bundles of cash round in buses and vans
What motivates people? The behavioural arguments against the bonus culture (and some very cool drawing) [h/t Audrey Bronstein]