Rome, Italy : WWF applauds Canada, Japan, Korea and the United States for this week’s statement reconfirming commitments to urgently establishing a science-based recovery and management plan for overexploited stocks of Atlantic bluefin tuna.
But the global conservation organization is surprised at the absence of the European Union, whose fleets catch most of the fish, in backing the statement. [...]
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Barcelona, Spain — You know the story. The clever tailors that convince a kingdom that only intelligent people can see the clothes they make. Everyone talks about how fine the emperor’s outfit is, until one audacious voice pipes up to say there’s nothing there, the king is naked. When the reality of climate change politics is stripped of rhetoric, most of the industrialised world’s leaders are seriously underdressed, and Obama isn’t wearing a stitch. [...]
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