One week has passed, and the ghost of the Coup has disappeared, and is a week since the IX Indigenous March in Defense of TIPNIS started a vigil at the door of the Vicepresidence offices. On Tuesday June 27, the IX Indigenous March in Defense of TIPNIS arrived to the city of La Paz after marching for 61 days from Trinidad to La Paz, and I’m very PROUD to say that I joined my fellow Indigenous sisters and brothers, I …
The Women’s Major Group (WMG), representing 200 civil society women’s organizations from all around the world, is greatly disappointed in the results of the Rio+20 conference. We believe that the…
According to Chad Holliday, Chair of the Bank of America and Co-Chair of the Sustainable Energy for All Initiative (SEFA) is “the greatest public-private partnership of all” – approaching $50…
Admittedly I am totally surprised, but despite the tremendous chaos at this conference here the Governments at Rio+20 here seem to have all agreed on the attached outcome document yesterday,…
“Land grab may work well for everybody and must not be rejected with knee-jerk reactions.” – Rachel Kyte, World Bank Vice President for Sustainable Development and CGIAR Fund Council Chair…
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil–While the highly controversial “Sustainable Energy for All” initiative [1] is underway today at Energy Day at the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development, the international STOP GE…
Rio de Janeiro (June 18): Only two days before the official opening of the United Nations 20th Anniversary Conference of the 1992 “Earth Summit”, representatives from the Women’s Major Group…
Cerca de 50,000 personas se reúnen en Rio de Janeiro 20 años después de la primera Cumbre de la Tierra realizada en 1992. Es importante resaltar la importancia de este…
Cross-posted from GJEP's blog climateconnections.org Press statement by the Civil Society Facilitating Committee of the Rio+20 Peoples’ Summit, June 16, 2012: It’s no coincidence that the G20 summit is taking…
Women from Asia Pacific region call for all stakeholders’ commitment to gender equality and women’s rights in four key areas as basis for sustainable development. The purple scarves are the…
(cross-posted) RIO DE JANEIRO (JUNE 13)- It is now the final countdown to Rio+20, the Conference on Sustainable Development, taking place next week in Rio de Janeiro. Over 20,000 people…
(tomado de http://cupuladospovos.org.br/es/2012/05/lo-que-esta-en-juego-en-rio20/) A un mes de la conferencia de Naciones Unidas Río+20, los pueblos del mundo no vemos resultados positivos del proceso de negociación que se está realizando en la…
The Swedish-owned international furniture retailer, IKEA, is logging old-growth forests and other high conservation value forests in Russian Karelia[1] through its subsidiary Swedwood. A petition has been launched by Swedish NGO…
Many still believe that huge financial “investments” are needed for the “conservation” of biological resources, as shown with the subsidies that international institutions like the World Bank provide for this…
Written from SBSTTA-16 in Montreal, Canada on Wednesday, 2nd May, 2012 (originally published in ECO-the newsletter of the CBD Alliance) The discussion on incentive measures came and went with the…
Los agrocombustibles son una propuesta que toma fuerza como formula para enfrentar el cambio climático y garantizar la transición hacia un nuevo modelo energético, su implementación en los países en…
Returning from the UN headquarters in New York, after attending the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20, informal- informal consultations from 17-23 March followed by the 3rd intersessional preparatory meetings…
