The United Nations Environment Programme, through its Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (ROLAC), and the University of Massachusetts Boston, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a new partnership oriented to develop, consolidate, and detail their cooperation in the field of the environment. Since 2011, UMass Boston, through the Center for Governance [...]

The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) was launched in 2005 to to inspire, connect, and empower a community of global leaders to forge solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. By fostering partnerships, providing strategic advice, and driving resources toward effective ideas, CGI helps its members – organizations from the private sector, public sector, and civil society – maximize [...]

During the UN General Assembly in September 2011, the Government of Colombia presented a proposal to establish the Sustainable Development Goals as part of the results of Rio+20 . The goals would be based on the Agenda 21 main guidelines approved at the first conference. The Government of Guatemala endorsed the proposal and convened an informal [...]

The need for economic instruments to value biodiversity is a fundamental element towards its conservation. The negative implications of non-sustainable practices include lower productivity, biodiversity and forest loss, natural disasters and the perpetuation of poverty and underdevelopment. That is why developing countries need to work together in the definition of a common route to protect their [...]

Guest Blog by Earth Child Institute. Almost twenty years ago, at the first UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Agenda 21 was established. Agenda 21 delivered a forward looking plan of action for sustainable development which highlighted the importance of expanding children’s access to education at international, regional, national, [...]

The Global Environmental Governance Project of the Center for Governance and Sustainability at the University of Massachusetts Boston has embarked upon a joint initiative with the Federal Office for the Environment of Switzerland and the World Trade Institute at the University of Berne to host a workshop on International Environmental Governance: Grounding Policy Reform in Rigorous [...]