The Cancun Summit: Making up for Copenhagen

It’s been one year since the world witnessed the fiasco that was the Copenhagen Summit. At that event, some 120 world leaders were supposed to have arrived at a new climate deal but ended up instead with a non-binding agreement, the so-called Copenhagen Accord–a spectacular failure to deliver on promises of a post-Kyoto agreement to roll…

Abu Dhabi conference tackles sustainable tourism

Abu Dhabi–Monday saw the launch of the World Green Tourism conference in Abu Dhabi, a three-day event seen as the first global event in the Arabian Gulf devoted to the development of–and investment in–sustainable tourism. The conference aims to bring together key regional and international players in the industry–including tourism authorities and associations, city planners, hotels and…