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BOND-DEG – UK NGO’s Joint Rio+20 Narrative
Humanity faces critical decisions. The scale of our current economic crisis will soon be overshadowed by the impending environmental crisis in both impacts and costs. Over the past 50 years our current global economic...
BOND-DEG – UK NGO’s Joint Rio+20 Narrative
Humanity faces critical decisions. The scale of our current economic crisis will soon be overshadowed by the impending environmental crisis in both impacts and costs. Over the past 50 years our current global economic...
Statement by Maurice F. Strong at Special United Nations General Assembly Event on Rio+20
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...
Stakeholder Forum – Rio+20 Zero Draft Submission
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...
Stakeholder Forum – Rio+20 Zero Draft Submission
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...
Alliance for Future Generations Rio+20: Open Challenge Paper
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...
UNEP releases “Keeping Track of our Changing Environment: From Rio to Rio+20”
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...
Environmental Audit Committee publishes report on preparations for Rio+20
“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...
UN Secretary General meets with NGOs and welcomes UN DPI NGO Declaration “Chairs Text”
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.