About two weeks ago, 1 March 2011, a regional environmental seminar took place in Johannesburg. This seminar was mainly organised by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) in partnership with the Association of European Parliamentarians with Africa (AEPA). As one might guess, top of the agenda was to address the issue of environmental degradation and climate change effected by ‘global warming’. Global warming, lexically unpacked, refers to the warming/ heating ...