A new report, released November 3, 2011, by the Higher Education Climate Adaptation Committee highlights the critical role of institutes of higher education in anticipating and adapting to the “new normal” climate change will create. Already, we have seen record-breaking heat, flooding, storms, and drought. As these dramatic climate events become the norm, it is [...]
From 19-21 July 2011, the Government of the Republic of Indonesia and the UNCSD Secretariat organized a High Level Dialogue on the Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development in Solo, Indonesia. The event brought together most governments of the world, UN agencies and programmes, and some stakeholders concerned with sustainable development governance, for a discussion on [...]
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 [...]
On 25-26 May 2011, the GEG project through the new Center for Governance and Sustainability co-organized a workshop in Ethiopia, entitled Rio 2012: Ethiopia’s Input to the Sustainability Summit, with the Horn of Africa Regional Environment Centre/Network at Addis Ababa University. The other co-sponsors were the Ethiopian Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) and the two civil society organizations Forum for Environment and Ethiopian Wildlife and [...]
In an effort to improve the sharing of information related to international agreements that protect the environment, the United Nations set up the Multilateral Environmental Agreements Information and Knowledge Management Initiative (MEA IKM) in 2009. Supported by UNEP, currently participating in the initiative are 17 Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) from 12 Secretariats, hosted by three UN organizations and the [...]
