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- 3 March 2010 - Not In My Back Yard
- 25 May 2010 - Natural disasters: how can we improve?
- Importing goods, exporting drought?
- Digital Divide in the UK?
- 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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Razing the Rainforest
How can we best conserve the world's rainforests in the face of enormous challenges from palm oil, timber trade, green colonialism and biofuels?
Watch the talks...
Warren Evans - World Bank
Simon Counsell - Rainforest Foundation
Marina Silva - former Minister for the Environment, Brazil
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Focus
Interview with Tony Juniper
Tony Juniper, special adviser to The Prince of Wales' Rainforest Project, and former director of Friends of the Earth, joins 21st Century Challenges to discuss the issues surrounding rainforest conservation and the challenges of the 21st century.
3rd March, 2009- more »
Saving the rainforest?
The world's rainforests serve as a key defense against climate change.
How can we conserve the world's rainforests in the face of growing challenges from the timber trade, illegal logging, green colonialism and biofuels?
- 30th January, 2009
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60 seconds
60 second guide to rainforests
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