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, [...]
On January 4th, 2012, Bonian Golmohammadi, Secretary General of the World Federation of United Nations Association, and thirteen of his colleagues co-signed an editorial in the Huffington Post calling for a comprehensive, global framework for environmental governance. It has been 20 years since the landmark 1992 Rio Earth Summit. However, the task of implementing the goals of [...]
On January 10th, 2012, the United Nations released the outline of what will become the final outcome document of the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development. The ‘zero draft’, as it is called, will serve as the foundation for the climate negotiations that will happen between the 20th and the 22nd of June, 2012. In its [...]
On November 3rd, authors and collaborating scholars working on the 2012 UN Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-5) met at Umass Boston for a roundtable discussion entitled Trajectories to Sustainability: Balancing People, Planet, and Prosperity. The panelists included Ivar Baste and Fatoumata Keita-Ouane of UNEP, Trista Patterson of the U.S. Forest Service, Laszlo Pinter of the Central European University, and Bernice Lee of Chatham House. Close to a hundred students, academics, and professionals attended the round table [...]
At the panel discussion on Means of Implementation for Sustainable Development at the Special United Nations General Assembly event on October 25, Maurice Strong, the keynote speaker for the event, described the attention given to environmental issues as a ‘recession in political will’. Maurice Strong was the Secretary-General of the first UN Conference on the Human [...]
