On January 30 and 31st, two conferences dealing with environmental governance took place in Paris, France. At the Institute of Political Science in Paris (SciencePo), the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations hosted a workship entitled, “The Role of International Environmental Governance in Strengthening Stustainable Development Reform in the Run Up to Rio+20.” Simultaneously, [...]
Between January 25 and 27, the initial discussions on the zero draft of “The Future we Want,” the intended outcome document for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development UNCSD Rio + 20, took place in New York. Approximately 100 delegates were invited to work on far-reaching, but practical outcomes consistent with current and future challenges [...]
The Berne workshop on International Environmental Governance: Grounding Policy Reform in Rigorous Analysis was a joint initiative of the Federal Office for the Environment of Switzerland, the Global Environmental Governance Project of the Center for Governance and Sustainability at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and the World Trade Institute at the University of Berne. The workshop took place on 26-28 June 2011, and [...]
January 24, 2012 marked the beginning of the six-day long World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The 12th Annual meeting, organized by NGOs,social movements and citizens associations from all over the world, intentionally opened at the same time as the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. WSF held its first open meeting in 2001 [...]
The French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transportation and Housing and the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs will host the conference, “Towards New Global Governance for the Environment,” which will take place in Paris, France on January 30-31, 2012. The conference is organized in conjunction with the Economic, Social and Environmental Council and the Strategic [...]
