Earth Summit 2012 Blog
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.
Planet Under Pressure: State of the Planet Declaration
Scientists issued the first “State of the Planet” declaration at the world’s largest gathering of experts on global environmental and social issues in advance of the major UN Summit Rio+20 in June. In one...
Youth 21: Building for Change
A report by David Woolcombe, President of Peace Child on the March 15-18th UNDP / UN-HABITAT meeting in Nairobi, Kenya. Mr. Woolcombe provides a summary of the meeting outcomes and how it relates to...