Explore Challenges
- 13 OCTOBER 2010: Plastic pollution in the oceans
- 1 DECEMBER 2010: Can the UK ever be sustainable?
- Natural disasters: how can we improve?
- Not In My Back Yard
- Digital Divide in the UK?
- Importing goods, exporting drought?
- The challenges and opportunities of an ageing society
- Engineering our climate
- The future shape of Capitalism
- Migration: skills and the job market
- Razing the Rainforest
- London under water
- Concreting the countryside
- Future of low carbon energy
- Africa in the 21st Century
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Africa in the 21st Century
21st Century Challenges was launched with Sir Bob Geldof & Kofi Annan talking about the challenges facing Africa in the 21st century. Issues include economic growth, governance, trade, war, hunger, health and climate change in the African continent.
Watch the talks...
Kofi Annan former Secretary General of UN
Sir Bob Geldof Musician, Humanitarian and Activist
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Sir Bob Geldof quotes
A selection of quotes from Sir Bob Geldof's discussion on Africa in the 21st Century
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a guide to the Trade vs Aid debate
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