Professor Daniel Esty, Director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, has been appointed by the Governor of Connecticut to be the commissioner of the newly-formed Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP). The role of the agency is to consolidate Connecticut’s various energy branches, including the Department of Public Utility Control and the Department of [...]

The 2nd Conference on Environmental Governance and Democracy will take place from 17-19 September at Yale University in New Haven, USA.

Nominations are now open for a limited number of civil society representatives to participate in the MDG Summit at the UN Headquarters in New York 20-22 September. Applications can be submitted until Tuesday 27 September via an online form here.

In preparation for the 2012 conference on sustainable development in Rio–20 years after the Rio Earth Summit–the first preparatory committee meeting (PrepCom) was held 17-19 May in New York.