Monthly Archive: November 2011
The decisions and policies which determine our impacts on sustainability are primarily motivated by economic and financial considerations. The transcendent importance of the actions to be taken at Rio + 20 require that they...
The total population of the world has just passed seven billion and is continuing to increase. Everywhere people aspire to higher living standards and higher levels of consumption. There is growing concern about the...
The total population of the world has just passed seven billion and is continuing to increase. Everywhere people aspire to higher living standards and higher levels of consumption. There is growing concern about the...
The Alliance for Future Generations The Alliance for Future Generations is a group of individuals and organisations who have agreed to work to ensure that long-termism and the needs of future generations are brought...
The United Nations Environment Programme today released a new compilation of statistical data tracking environmental changes that have swept the planet over the last twenty years in a report called “Keeping Track of our...
“The Prime Minister should promise to attend next year’s Rio + 20 Earth Summit to show leadership on sustainability and strengthen global political will to tackle the environmental crisis,” say MPs on the Commons...
On 26th October 2011 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon issued a statement in which he welcomed the “Chair’s Text” from the 64th Annual UN DPI NGO Conference held in Bonn in September.