Global development podcast: what can Rio+20 achieve?
Listen to podcast here. This month’s Global development podcast looks ahead to the Rio+20 talks and asks what they may mean for sustainable development.
Monthly Archive: May 2012
Countries begin last round of talks on outcome document ahead of Rio+20 conference
29 May 2012 – Countries today began the last round of negotiations on an outcome document before they meet in Brazil next month at the United Nations Sustainable Development Conference , which seeks to...
“Only One Earth: The Long Road via Rio to Sustainable Development”-Now available as an E-book
By Felix Dodds and Michael Strauss with Maurice F. StrongRoutledge Publishing, June 2012 New book Only One Earth looks back over what has been achieved in the past forty years since the United Nations...
UN Forum 2012
Date: Saturday 14 July 2012 Time: 10:00-18:00 GMT Location: London, Institute of Education Focus: To bring together UN experts, policy-makers and opinion-shapers with a wide cross-section of the public to discuss peace and security,...
More Negotiations on Rio+20 Document Kick off at UN Today
United Nations, May 29 (Prensa Latina) Delegates from the 193 UN member countries start next Tuesday an additional week of negotiations on the text of the document to be approved by the UN Conference...
Chinese enterprises join in Rio+20 Earth Summit
Twenty-one private enterprises from China will join in China Going Green Dialogues as a partof the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development, known as Rio+20, that will come inJune in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
North-South Divide Looms Heavily Over Rio+20 Summit
UNITED NATIONS, May 29, 2012 (IPS) – The 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro was to a large extent derailed by a North-South divide: a battle between a coalition of rich industrial nations...