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Rio+20 Earth Summit, Brazil
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 the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg. It is envisaged as a Conference at the highest possible level, including Heads of State and Government or other representatives. The Conference will result in a focused political document.
A number of documents and studies are being produced by various stakeholders in preparation for UNCSD and they are available on the UN Website: Documents section>>
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The Daily Tck
Throughout the UN climate negotiations we will be distributing daily intelligence reports. To sign up, please fill out the form below:
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Fresh this week: Japan PM plans to reduce climate commitments; 2012 Global crop insurance claims highest ever; Asia Pulp & Paper deforestation moratorium... Read more »
A draft presidential decree seen by RIA Novosti shows that Russia might be backing away from an unconditional 25% emission reduction target announced by Prime Minister Medvedev during the Rio+20 summit in June to its 15-25% range stated in the 2009 Copenhagen Accord. The Russian ... Read more »
After covering 70,000 miles in two-and-a-half years, the French scientific research vessel Tara will arrive in London on September 17 for a ten-day stay to share findings and introduce the public to its important research on how climate change is impacting our worlds' oceans. ... Read more »
The High Seas Alliance and the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition have jointly released a report entitled “THE OCEAN WE NEED: A Blueprint for Urgent Action on Oceans from Rio+20″. From their launch release: “Given the interconnectedness of the world’s oceans to ... Read more »
Every few weeks the TckTckTck team proudly recognizes one of the 350+ partner organizations making up our global climate movement. If you watched some of the videos coming out of Rio+20, you probably noticed Cameron Fenton, Director of the Canadian Youth Climate Delegation. Camer... Read more »
Fresh this week: Australia carbon price takes effect this weekend; US fire a harbinger of what’s in store for N. Hemisphere; Highlights from Rio+20... Read more »
I have refrained from blogging for three days until today, the final day of the Rio+20 Earth Summit. Not only because I have been (and continue to be) extremely busy with a multitude of tasks here. But also because I wanted to wait for the dust to start settling. There has been a... Read more »
On Wednesday June 20, 17-year-old environmental activist Brittany Trilford of Wellington, New Zealand, addressed more than a hundred heads of state at the opening plenary of the Rio+20 U.N. Earth Summit, the largest United Nations gathering ever. "We are all aware that time is ti... Read more »
A conference that was 2 years in the planning and tasked to chart a path towards ‘The Future We Want’ has produced a document that most of civil society has rejected. The 3 days of the high-level segment were an emotional roller coaster: fighting spirit and a rest of hope on ... Read more »
This week's "Foot Soldier," teenage activist Brittany Trilford, traveled over 7,000 miles (thankfully not by foot) to, more or less, give world leaders the business for their lack of action on the environment. But she wasn't the first child to have done so: 12-year-old Severn Suz... Read more »
Let's face it. The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio +20) was a flop -- at least the part that involved negotiations amongst governments. What happened in the margins was much more interesting, and virtually every post-Rio commentator has suggested in one ... Read more »
At a European level the solutions to climate change are also the solutions to the economic problems affecting the day-to-day lives of European youth. The policies required to build a green European economy are a matter of collective self-interest. So why do we keep failing to imp... Read more »
While Rio+20 'The Future We Want' outcome document does deliver some commitments to move closer to a green economy, history has taught us that governments have no reason to keep their promises to future generations unless civil society holds them accountable. For this reason, our... Read more »
With the end of the Rio+20 Earth Summit last night and the signing of 'The Future We Want' outcome document, our time in Rio is coming to a close. Partners here in Rio de Janeiro and abroad are taking stock of these talks, their results and what they mean for the environmental an... Read more »
Early light seeps through the gap in the blackout curtains in this little rental apartment two blocks from Ipanema Beach. The predawn lightning and thunder have moved on, and today, like yesterday, promises to be cloudy and humid, 75 comfortable degrees in the dead of winter in R... Read more »
What would you say if given the opportunity to tell world leaders your thoughts on climate change? For 17 year-old New Zealander, Brittany Trilford, that opportunity became a reality this morning at the Rio+20 Earth Summit. Invited to provide the opening speech, Trilford delivere... Read more »
Today The Elders said that the declaration of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) is not the response we need to safeguard people and the planet.... Read more »
According to the UN, the current economic thinking leads to irreversible destruction of natural resources that will leave future generations worse off. To rectify this, the UN has introduced a new form of measurement. The Inclusive Wealth Index highlights nuances in different cou... Read more »
I have refrained from blogging for three days until today, the final day of the Rio+20 Earth Summit. Not only because I have been (and continue to be) extremely busy with a multitude of tasks here. But also because I wanted to wait for the dust to start settling. There has been a... Read more »
Yesterday UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon accepted the full set of outcomes from the Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum, including a listing of more than 200 business commitments. In addition, the 2,700 members of the Forum recommended that the United Nations adopt new key pr... Read more »
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