Roberto Bissio

Bissio is the executive director of Instituto del Tercer Mundo (Third World Institute), a nonprofit research and advocacy organization headquartered in Uruguay. He also coordinates the secretariat of Social Watch, an international network of citizen organizations that produces annual reports on governments' and international organizations' implementation of poverty eradication and gender equity commitments. He is a member of the Civil Society Advisory Committee to the administrator of the UN Development Programme, and has covered development issues as a journalist since 1973.

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Articles by Roberto Bissio

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
4 October 2013
AmericasAsia

Climate, food, and biomass energy

N.H. RavindranathRoberto BissioJosé R. Moreira

As people seek to contain rising carbon levels, they may derive increasing amounts of energy from biomass. But land is a finite resource. Food insecurity is already severe in many poor countries.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
30 September 2013
AfricaAmericasAsiaEurope/RussiaMiddle East

Cut emissions, skip the fake compensation

Roberto Bissio

The author argues that biofuels are essentially a way in which rich countries try to compensate for their failure to reduce their excessive carbon emissions.