The 19th Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-19) takes place in New York 2-13 May 2011. An interesting discussion about CSD has been started in the LinkedIn group on Global Environmental Governance. If you are attending the conference, please join the discussion to share your take-aways and perspectives with others. You are also welcome to [...]

From the 2-13 May 2011, the 19th Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-19) is being held at the UN Headquarters in New York. The Commission on Sustainable Development was created as an outcome of the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, and its mandate reaffirmed and expanded in the 2002 Johannesburg Plan of Implementation. In its eleventh [...]

Journey of the Universe is a new documentary made by an acclaimed team of internationally recognized scientists, scholars, and award-winning filmmakers. Filmed on the Greek island of Samos, birthplace of mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras, evolutionary philosopher Brian Thomas Swimme guides the viewer on an exploration into enduring questions such as the birth of the cosmos, current evolutionary dynamics, and frontiers of [...]

By Gabriela Bueno de Almeida Moraes, GEG Youth Voices Contributor On Governance and Forests The International Year of Forests, celebrated in 2011, intends to show how forests relate to social and economic development, and the importance of forest protection in environmental conservation as a whole. As pointed out by the 2010 Report of the Secretary-General [...]

Summary of an article in the Seed Magazine by Paola Antonelli, the senior curator of Design and Architecture at the Museum of Modern Art:   Whether we are aware of it or not, design is in everything around us. Every building, park, city, organization and social project is designed. For those who know how to use [...]

Bolivia will soon pass The Law of Mother Earth, the world’s first law giving all nature equal rights to humans, which will hopefully reduce carbon and control industrial pollution. Bolivia has taken a strong stance on demanding steep carbon emission cuts and challenges other world powers to do the same. Bolivia is feeling the effects of climate change with rising temperatures, [...]