Global Campaign For Climate Action (GCCA) is bringing together four members of the Elders group, and four young activists for an online discussion about sustainable future.The Elders group was founded in 2007 by Nelson Mandela who, along with Aung San Suu Kyi , remains an honorary member of the group. The ten member group is made up [...]
Until the end of May 2012, the International Affairs Special Issue: ‘Rio+20 and the global environment: reflections on theory and practice’ is available online for free. The issue, guest edited by Bernice Lee and Robert Falkner, highlights the work of respected academics and researchers in preparation for Rio+20. The full articles are available by clicking on the [...]
The European Union and its Member States presented their position about the Green Economy discussion for the the upcoming United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development UNCSD Rio + 20. The declaration resulted from the meeting of the Informal Environmental Council of the European Union in Horsens, Denmark on April 18th-19th, 2012. Ministers reinforced the relevance of the [...]
On April 23rd, 2012, the Ecologic Institute announced a project due for completion on April 30th concerning global environmental governance. Entitled, “Rio+20: Financing International Environmental Governance,” the report examines how the current system of international environmental governance (IEG) is funded. Prof. Maria Ivanova of UMass Boston and the Center for Governance and Sustainability is a [...]
On April 23rd, 2012, the Stockholm+40 conference held a panel session with distinguished members of the international environmental governance community who had each been involved in one of the four major environmental conference held between 1972 and 2012.. Dubbed the “Generation Panel,” the event provided a unique, intergenerational perspective on the state of the global [...]
The UN Global Compact announced on April 11th that WindMade has been appointed as the official sustainability partner for their RIO+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum to be held from June 15th until June 18th, 2012 in Rio. WindMade is the organization responsible for the first global consumer label identifying products made with wind power. The label [...]
