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- 13 OCTOBER 2010: Plastic pollution in the oceans
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- 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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Razing the Rainforest : Focus
Saving the rainforest?
30th January, 2009
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?
click to read more »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
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Panel Members
Read biographies of the panel for the Razing the Rainforest event, 22 October 2008
Eliasch Review into deforestation
Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Johan Eliasch host the Number 10 launch of the Eliasch Review into deforestation
