Monthly Archive: April 2012
Earth Debates 4: How do we feed 9 billion people in 2050?
Date: 11 April 2012Time: 1930 GMTLocation: Natural History Museum, London Watch the debate live! As world population rises we are facing increasing challenges to find suitable land and harness enough water to produce more...
Urgent international action needed to combat social inequalities and environmental risks, UN Secretary General says
Social justice and environmental protection are equally urgent and intrinsically linked universal goals, with coordinated global action needed on both fronts at the UN’s ‘Rio+20’ Conference on Sustainable Development in June, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon...
Ban: new economic paradigm needed, including social and environmental progress
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today highlighted the need for an economic paradigm that incorporates social and environmental progress in efforts to achieve sustainable development.