As part of its preparations towards Rio+20 the UK Government’s Environmental Audit Committee will take evidence from Stakeholder Forum’s President and Executive Director, Derek Osborn and Felix Dodds on 14th September 2011.
The Ministry of the Environment is organising a high-level conference aimed at consultation between EU member states and key countries in the process of preparing for the Rio+20 conference in 2012, presentation of the...
Section 1: Critical importance of forests for sustainable development Forests are of critical importance for sustainable development. Forests cover about 30% of the world’s land surface, around 4 billion hectares, and contain the majority...
On a rainy Wednesday, September 7, 2011, as part of our MobilizeUS! campaign, the Human Impacts Institute attended the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Policy Dialogue Series Briefing on the UN Conference on Sustainable Development...
In advance of the June 2012 summit, officially dubbed the Conference on Sustainable Development, some environmentalists say they are concerned about its focus on developing a “Green Economy”.
Next year’s Rio+20 United Nations summit must “un-environmentalise” the world’s approach to sustainability so that it can reach out beyond the converted, according to a senior organiser in the host nation.
In June 2012, Presidents, Prime Ministers, and other top government officials will come to Rio de Janeiro for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, which will be the centerpiece of a week of events...
During the 64th Annual UN Department of Public Information (UN DPI) & Non-Governmental Organizations Conference, from 3rd to 5th September in Bonn, Germany, some 1,300 representatives of NGOs discussed sustainable development, the possible outcomes...
Collectif Rio+20 have prepared a document summarising their preparations for Rio+20.
The 64th Annual United Nations DPI NGO conference, which took place in Bonn 3 -5 September, 2011 has produced a declaration entitled “Sustainable Societies: Responsive Citizens”.
