environment

The Copenhagen Consensus Center, an organization created by the Copenhagen Business School in 2006, is working to solve the world's biggest problems. Their latest project, funded by The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, brought together experts for Copenhagen Consensus 2008. This project set out to find solutions to 10 of the world's most pressing concerns: Air Pollution, Conflicts, Diseases, Education, Global Warming, Malnutrition and Hunger, Sanitation and Water, Subsidies and Trade Barriers, Terrorism, Women and Development.

On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television (ARTE – French-German cultural tv channel) by French journalist and film maker Marie-Monique Robin, The World According to Monsanto -- a documentary most Americans won’t ever see.

The gigantic biotech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years through the use of chemicals and genetic modification of plants.