Santiago de Chile, Sep 10 (Prensa Latina) With an appeal for a global institutional mechanism to foster sustainable development, the Latin America and Caribbean regional preparatory meeting for of the UN Conference on Sustainable...
The Tenth Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) Dialogue, which convened from 7-8 September 2011, in The Hague, the Netherlands, focused on common approaches to dealing with the challenges of food security and climate change.
A National consultation was held in Pakistan on Monday 12th September in preparation for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), Rio +20 June 2012. It was jointly organised by the United Nations...
The consultation workshop was held in preparation for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD)/Rio+20 June 2012. The session was jointly organised by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in its capacity as co-chair...
DRAFT SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS To achieve the goals of Rio + 20 in an ambitious, time-bound and accountable manner, we call upon governments in accordance with human rights, the principle of common but differentiated...
As part of its preparations towards Rio+20 the UK Government’s Environmental Audit Committee will take evidence from Stakeholder Forum’s President and Executive Director, Derek Osborn and Felix Dodds on 14th September 2011.
The Ministry of the Environment is organising a high-level conference aimed at consultation between EU member states and key countries in the process of preparing for the Rio+20 conference in 2012, presentation of the...
Section 1: Critical importance of forests for sustainable development Forests are of critical importance for sustainable development. Forests cover about 30% of the world’s land surface, around 4 billion hectares, and contain the majority...
On a rainy Wednesday, September 7, 2011, as part of our MobilizeUS! campaign, the Human Impacts Institute attended the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Policy Dialogue Series Briefing on the UN Conference on Sustainable Development...
In advance of the June 2012 summit, officially dubbed the Conference on Sustainable Development, some environmentalists say they are concerned about its focus on developing a “Green Economy”.
