RIO+20
GLOBE Foundation and United Nations Environment Programme Sparking Global Conversation on ‘Road to Rio+20’
The GLOBE Foundation is pleased to collaborate with the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) to offer multiple platforms for thinking, dialogue and action by the worldwide financial services and investment community in the run...
The Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS), organized annually by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) since 2001, is an international undertaking that provides a platform for the exchange of knowledge on all aspects of sustainable development. Over the past ten years, DSDS has emerged as one of the most important forums on global sustainability issues, which brings together...
I have been closely observing preparations of one of the most awaited conference of this decade, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) also known as Rio 2012 or Rio+20 or Earth Summit 2012, hosted by Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, as a 20-year follow-up to the historic 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) that was held in the same city....
Mountain Day took place on Sunday, 4 December 2011 during the 17th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 17) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), in Durban, South Africa. Mountain Day was organized by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, and the Mountain...
Twenty years on from the Rio 1992 meeting (the first “Earth Summit”), participants coming from all regions met in Lucerne on 11 and 12 October 2011 to raise the role of mountains in the agenda of international development discussions.
Regional reports from different mountain ranges, including the Andes and Hindu-Kush-Himalaya, were presented at the Conference. As a result,...
500 networks, civil organizations and citizens have already signed the present Adhesion Letter which was launched in Sao Paulo State, parallel to the 1st Rio +20 Paulista Seminar, as during the Seminar of the 4th edition of the MDGs promoted by The Presidency General Secretariat , the United Nations Development Programme ( UNDP ) and the National Movement for Citizenship and Solidarity, as...
The concept of green economy has been raising hope to different stakeholders to address economic environmental and social crises facing currently the global community. It is one of the two thematic focuses at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development to be held in 2012, 20 years after the Rio Earth Summit. This concept is particularly important for mountain regions, particularly...
La présente note vise à donner aux États Membres et autres parties prenantes les indications dont ils ont besoin pour répondre à la demande faite par le Comité préparatoire de la Conférence des Nations Unies sur le développement durable, à sa deuxième réunion, de lui faire parvenir, le 1er novembre 2011 au plus tard, leurs contributions écrites qui seront rassemblées dans une compilation...
As a collaborative initiative of ICIMOD and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the International Conference on Green Economy and Sustainable Mountain Development – Opportunities and Challenges in View of Rio+20 will be held 5-7 September in Kathmandu, Nepal. The conference brings together international, regional, and national experts and policy makers to discuss the...
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