Yunus on poverty

Excerpt from an interview with the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, in which he discusses the unacceptability of allowing people to remain in poverty. See the full interview at http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/pe...

Choose the right biofuel or the orang-utan gets it

While biofuels could make a small contribution in the battle against climate change, it could in fact do more harm than good. If rainforests are cut down to make way to grow 'green fuels', it will not only destroy homes for animals like the orang-utans, this will also be catastrophic for the climate releasing more greenhouse gases from destroying forests than will be saved by using biofuels.