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New UN report: Creating a future worth choosing
What is a future well worth choosing? It’s the question asked and answered in the latest report released Monday from the High-level Panel on Global Sustainability in an attempt to find practical solutions to address the institutional and financial arrangements necessary to develop sustainably.
Rio Prize description
Join the TckTckTck team at the Rio +20 Earth Summit this June and be part of an event that’s sure to change the world. TckTckTck is looking for a climate-smart blogger or videographer to be part of our on-the-ground team in Rio. Want to help us share stories and keep climate change and sustainable energy [...]
Rio+20 Calendar & Files
The GCCA shared calendar with key Partner and stakeholder events, campaign opportunities, and a list of shared files for GCCA members and allies.
Full Rio+20 statement post
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) is being organized in pursuance of General Assembly Resolution 64/236 (A/RES/64/236). The Conference will take place in Brazil on 20-22 June 2012 to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), in Rio de Janeiro, and the 10th anniversary of [...]
Kelly Rigg: At Rio +20 the future we want means action NOW
Once every 10 or 20 years, something remarkable happens. World leaders take note of the perilous state of our planet and its poorest inhabitants and think, “Good heavens, someone ought to do something about this.” And looking around they realize, “Oh… that would be us.”
Kelly Rigg: With Durban talks behind us, what’s next?
The British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead died more than 60 years ago, but he could have been talking about the Durban climate conference when he said, “Necessity is the mother of invention is a silly proverb.Necessity is the mother of futile dodges is much nearer the truth.” Reactions to the Durban outcome have ranged from “landmark achievement” [...]
Elizabeth May: The price for Canada’s withdrawl from Kyoto
I am just back from Durban and COP17. So is Peter Kent. Only he came back and announced that Canada will strike a blow at the fragile agreement that was just produced. As I am sure you have heard, Canada has filed the legal paperwork to withdraw from Kyoto.
Durban negotiations help strengthen fight against climate change
UN climate change conferences don’t of themselves cut greenhouse gas emissions. Negotiations about targets and texts cannot do that; only government policies that incentivise and require business investment in low carbon technologies and other emission-reducing activities can.
Tck partners respond to outcome of COP17
Here are some of the responses from our partners to the outcome of the COP17 International climate change negotiations held in Durban, South Africa:
Scientists outline risks of a world that’s 3 degrees warmer
As the climate talks in Durban concluded with a groundbreaking establishment of the Durban Platform to negotiate a new global agreement by 2015, scientists stated that the world continues on a pathway of over 3°C warming with likely extremely severe impacts, the Climate ActionTracker said today.
