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Panel including Leonardo DiCaprio, Linkin Park and Christiana Figueres to judge video competition for Rio+20 earth summit. It’s not often 12-year-old girls address world leaders at international summits. But that was just what happened...
Achim Steiner, the UN Environment Programme’s boss, fears for our future. But it is not too late.
HOW CAN WE MEASURE PROGRESS? EARTH DEBATES – FLAGSHIP EVENT SERIES IN PREPARATION OF RIO+20 London – 22nd February, 2012 – Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a universal measure of a country’s economic activity...
European leaders in Brussels agree on bold agenda for sustainable growth and energy access in global south, but critics are wary of promises on aid funding.
Felix Dodds is part of a number of advisory boards for Rio+20, including the global scientists conference in 2012 ‘Planet Under Pressure’, the German Government sponsored conference ‘Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus’ in...
A report by a top-level political panel has endorsed calls for greater integration of science into all levels of policymaking on sustainable development.
What might the Rio+20 summit deliver? We have a little more idea now, following publication of the “zero draft” outcome document for the June summit.
The Brazilian government is likely to move the dates of Rio+20, as a clash with the UK Royal Jubilee threatens to keep leaders away.
Finance experts gathered in Washington, DC this week to decide how the sector can contribute to creating a stable and sustainable economy. The meeting, organised by the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI),...
Earlier this year the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, said young people needed to be included in national delegations to UN meetings, including next year’s increasingly crucial Rio+20 conference.
