Peoples Sustainability Manifesto
For Action Beyond RIO+20, June 2012 The fourteen Peoples’ Sustainability Treaties, evolved through a consultative process with hundred of civil society organizations, converged at the Rio+20 to launch a Manifesto on the final day of the summit. They have declared...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon message at Rio+20
Opening day of the Rio+20 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon opens the session by addressing the UN Major Groups Briefing. [yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq74KrQ0Rd8&feature=plcp’] June 21, 2012
Why REDD/REDD+ Is NOT a Solution
Tom B.K. Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network Note: This is an excerpt of one section from the NO REDD READER, A collection of articles written by REDD Monitor, Global Justice Ecology Project, Diego Alejandro Cardona, Tatiana Roa Avendaño, Honduran Garifuna Organization,...
Global Exchange Brings Rights of Nature to the 2012 Earth Summit (Rio+20)
by Shannon Biggs In partnership with the Global Alliance, Shannon Biggs and Global Exchange will be a strong voice advocating Rights of Nature at 2012 Earth Summit Rio+20. The following includes excerpts from Shannon’s blog of 7th June 2012. Read...
20 years after the Earth Summit: What does the future hold?
Excerpts of article by Dr. Vandana Shiva. For complete article visit Aljazeera 01 Jun 2012 06:52 None of us are immune to climate change, or the effects it will have on the earth and our environment. In June 2012, movements...
Mother Earth Should Not Be “Owned, Privatised and Exploited”
Aline Jenckel interviews, TOM B.K. GOLDTOOTH, Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network For complete interview visit http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=107733 UNITED NATIONS, May 9, 2012 (IPS) – For centuries, indigenous peoples and their rights, resources and lands have been exploited. Yet long...
Bolivian Climate Change Platform proposes alternatives to Green Economy
As the UN Conference on the Environment and Development, Rio+20 approaches, the Bolivian Climate Change Platform on Rio+20 proposes the model of Living Well and Rights of Mother Earth as the foundation for viable alternatives to the “Green Economy”. “At...
Rio+20 Earth Summit – time to change the narrative
By Phil England | 1 What we need at the June meeting [Rio+20] is action – not voluntary pledges and empty goals. Phil England looks ahead to Rio+20 and potential for failure of national governments – captured by corporate interests...
Rio+20: The Essential Information
From Vitae Civilis This paper aims to encourage and support the participation of civil society at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development – Rio+20 and the many processes around it. We seek to provide a synthetic and objective view...
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