Forty-five years since Stockholm, twenty-five years at the top of the Earth and five years since Rio+20
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United Nations, May 30 (IPS) – Over the past five years, I and a number of co-authors have written a history of the sustainable development movement at the global level prior to the first United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in 1972 through the 1992 Earth Summit and Rio+20 To adopt the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement. I like to think of these books as the “Vienna Café Trilogy” after the coffee shop in the basement of the United Nations Headquarters in New York, where many deals are made on coffee. Also, considering The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts, this trilogy may also contain future books.
Climate-affected South Asia eyes Rio+20 . formula
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NEW DELHI, Aug 3 (IPS) – From the high slopes of the Himalayas to the coasts of the Indian Ocean, remote South Asian communities, united in the face of harsh and uncertain weather, continue to hold on to hope that Rio+20’s focus on disaster risk reduction (DRR) will positively affect national policies.
Brazilian environmental activists killed in the shadow of Rio +20
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Rio de Janeiro, Jul 07 (IPS) – Far from luxurious surroundings hosted Rio +20The most ambitious global conference on the environment of the past two decades, events in a fishing village in the state of Rio de Janeiro show that the cost of combating environmental crime can be as high as the cost of life itself.
Indigenous message to Rio+20: Leave everything underground
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Indigenous leaders from across South America make their way on foot, by canoe, and eventually on buses to be part of the Cari Oka caravan to Rio de Janeiro, to speak to world leaders at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio +20.
Rio+20: Turning Political Intuitions into Economic Realities
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When world leaders endorse their final plan of action, titled The Future We Want, at the Rio+20 summit in Brazil next week, the long-awaited question may remain unanswered: How can the United Nations best turn political platitudes into economic realities ?
UN report warns world faces tough choice in Rio +20
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Irreversible environmental damage threatens to destabilize the world’s life support systems unless urgent action is taken, according to the latest Global Environment Report (GEO-5) which views the Rio +20 summit as a critical opportunity to halt this decline.
Ahead of Rio +20, ‘the economy is already turning green’
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As governments make a last, desperate attempt to agree on an action plan for next week’s Rio+20 summit on sustainable development – including plans for a green economy transition and a set of sustainable development goals – the real economy is already turning green, according to Italy’s environment minister, Corrado Cellini.
Rio +20 أهداف goals
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The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from June 20-22, twenty years after the first Great Earth Summit in 1992. The conference, called Rio+20, will attract more than 80 heads of state. . The discussion will focus on two main themes: the “green economy” in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication, and the institutional context of sustainable development, writes Ignacio Ramone, editor of Le Monde Diplatique en Espanol.
Activists call for creation of a High Commissioner for Future Generations in Rio+20
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The theme of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) is “The future we want,” but there is no official role for young people and no spokesperson for future generations who will inherit that future.
Rio+20: United Nations deadlocked in do-or-die session on action plan
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After a week of negotiations, a meeting of the Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) to finalize an action plan titled “The Future We Want” for next week’s Rio+20 summit failed to reach agreement – and postponed decision-making to a final three-day session. in Brazil.
OP-ED: Rio+20 is everyone’s conference
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The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, better known as Rio+20, is a once-in-a-generation opportunity.
Will Rio +20 spark a green revolution?
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Think of Rio+20 as a greenhouse to grow the green ideas and values that humanity needs to thrive in the 21st century.
Green groups urge Obama to attend Rio +20
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A month before the United Nations Conference on Sustainability takes place in Rio de Janeiro, nearly two dozen NGOs are inviting President Barack Obama to confirm his presence at the event, known as Rio+20.
Rio +20: The European Parliament is absent from the Sustainability Summit
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The European Parliament’s decision to abandon its participation in the United Nations Rio +20 conference on sustainable development next month on the grounds that hotel costs are prohibitive, has drawn sharp criticism from civil society organisations.
The Brazilian government sets guidelines for success in Rio+20
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As the host of Rio+20, the Brazilian government has set guidelines for success at the upcoming World Summit, which aims to assess and consolidate what has been accomplished since the 1992 Earth Summit, the first global meeting on sustainable development.
The real challenge of Rio +20
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The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, known as Rio+20, will be held in Rio de Janeiro from June 20-22 to assess the implementation of the 1992 Earth Summit decisions, writes Don de Silva, environmental journalist and communications specialist.
The struggle over land rights falls under the radar of Rio+20
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Earth is the missing ingredient at next month’s major United Nations summit on sustainable development known as Rio+20, where the nations of the world will meet from June 20-22 with the aim of charting a new path to ensure the survival and prosperity of humankind.
Small island states join forces for Rio+20
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By the time Small Island Developing States (SIDS) reach the Rio+20 conference in Brazil in June, they will have worked hard to coordinate their message to the rest of the world about the importance of sustainable development for their countries.
Q&A: Ryu Spirit Revival +20
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In the weeks and months leading up to the Rio +20 Summit on Sustainable Development, groups comprising a wide range of interests are doing everything they can to ensure that the outcomes of the Summit are actually implemented.
Agriculture: farm animals join the Rio +20 . agenda
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Human development and biodiversity will not be the only focus of the Rio+20 Earth Summit in June, where representatives of hundreds of countries and NGOs will gather to discuss sustainable development.
The United Nations in a last-ditch effort to finalize the Rio+20 Action Plan
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The Rio +20 Sustainable Development Summit, to be held in Brazil in June, is touted as a key meeting of world leaders who are expected to renew their political commitment and agree a broad-based plan for a greener future.
The Caribbean will take a strong stand at the Rio +20 Summit
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The mandate will be very clear. CARICOM delegates head to Brazil in June for the United Nations Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development, determined to show that it will not be business as usual.
Brazil defends its credentials as host of Rio +20
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The government of Brazil, which will host the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio +20) in June, has defended itself against environmentalists who have criticized its environmental performance.
More ecology and less economy for Rio+20
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Hundreds of NGOs and social movements from around the world hope to counteract the failure of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio +20), which they consider inevitable, with the success of the Alternative Peoples Summit.
More ecology and less economy for Rio+20
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Hundreds of NGOs and social movements from around the world hope to counteract the failure of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio +20), which they consider inevitable, with the success of the Alternative Peoples Summit.