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Analysis of Zero Draft Submissions Stakeholder Forum has undertaken an analysis of the submissions to the UN. This analysis identifies the insights to be found in the Zero Draft submission documents by creating a...
Monthly Archive: September 2011
Discourse: Let the youth speak about environment
The United Nations elected Indonesia to host the Tunza International Children & Youth Conference on the Environment, slated to be held in Bandung from Sept. 27 to Oct 1. Over 1,500 young people from...
Pan-European assessment asks: ‘What do we know about water and green economy?’
The Ministerial Conference will bring together delegates from 53 countries across the pan-European region as well as delegates from the United States, Canada and Israel. The conference focuses on the challenges in protecting water...
Time has come to make changes in energy that are ‘Profound and Durable’, says UN Secretary-General
Following are parts of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as delivered on his behalf by Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro, at the United Nations Private Sector Forum on Sustainable Energy for All, today, 20 September,...
The next global debt crisis
Today’s global sovereign debt crisis is keeping a lot of government and business leaders up at night. But another global debt crisis is brewing that, while invisible to most CFOs and finance ministers, threatens...
Institutionals call on companies to integrate sustainability information
Global-listed and large private companies should integrate sustainability information throughout their annual report and accounts or explain why they are unable to do so, according to a coalition of institutions, including institutional investors.
The open government partnership: will Brazil promote green transparency?
On September 20, eight governments will gather in New York to launch the Open Government Partnership (OGP), a new multilateral initiative to strengthen transparency, citizen participation, accountability, and share new technologies and innovation. The...
Your Chance to Input to the Bonn2011 Nexus Conference
As part of the consultation process towards the “Bonn2011 Conference: The Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus – Solutions for a Green Economy”, Stakeholder Forum in collaboration with the Federal Government of Germany invites...
China’s green economist stirring a shift away from GDP
Niu Wenyuan, a senior economist and government adviser is trying to clean up his polluted country one data set at a time and, in the process, wean political leaders off their obsession with GDP...
More greenbacks from green banks: preparing for the Rio+20 summit at the first global sustainable finance conference
The sustainable finance sector continues to surge on an international level, thanks in part to the first Global Sustainable Finance Conference, held earlier this month in Karlsruhe, Germany.