RIO+20
The World Development Report 2012 has established that gender equality is smart economic policy. Background papers explore the linkages between energy, gender and development.
The UN Secretary-General has launched the Sustainable Energy for All initiative to ensure universal access to modern energy services, double the rate of improvement in energy efficiency and double the share of...
The objective of this side event is to provide an opportunity, for policymakers, private sector and civil society representatives from developing and industrialized countries to discuss the implementation of Montreal Protocol projects and its impact on climate change. Besides depleting the ozone layer, most ozone depleting substances (ODS) can have both direct and indirect adverse consequences...
Growth in itself is neither our enemy nor our problem. But what kind of economic growth do we need? And do we want growth at any cost?
A child born today is one of seven billion people on Earth, and during its lifetime will see the world's population grow by another 3 billion....
Con el objetivo de incentivar a las empresas a ser "más verdes" y ganar consumidores que exijan ese tipo de productos, aunque tengan que pagar un poco más, se desarrolla el ‘Fórum de Sostenibilidad Corporativa Rio+20’.
Más de 1.000 líderes de importantes compañías de diferentes industrias se reúnen en el evento con el fin de adoptar acciones concretas que evidencien...
Rio de Janeiro. - The diverse climate types in Peru makes necessary that different actions are designed that respond to the climate change effects in the Andes.
That statement was made by Gabriel Quijandría, Vice-minister of Strategic Development of Natural Resources from the Ministry of Environment of Peru (MINAM), in the “Experiences in Climate Change Adaptation Management...
GWP Participation at Rio+20
18 June 2012, 09:30 - 11:00
Side Event: Mountain knowledge solutions for sustainable green economy and improved water, food, energy, and environment nexus
Venue: P3-A, RioCentro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ...
Please join us at:
ENERGY DAY
Global Energy Assessment Special Session
Tuesday, June 19, 19:50-21:00,
Riocentro Convention Centre - Pavilion 3, P3-3
OVERVIEW
The Rio+20 Energy Day is a full day thematic session on energy hosted by UN-Energy. The day will culminate in a special session on the Global Energy...
The Third Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership will be held on Tuesday, 19 June 2012 at the Mountain Pavilion (Pavilion I, Athletes’ Park, Rio de Janeiro). The Mountain Partnership Secretariat looks forward to your participation and kindly...
Rio de Janeiro.- Showcasing posters and illustrations, Mountain Pavilion opened its doors today, on Rio de Janeiro’s Athlete’s Park, within the Rio+20 Summit activities.
The pavilion’s first visitors were mostly kids along with their school teachers, who expressed their admiration for the mountain’s natural riches and how they are connected to the population and their lives...
The effects of climate change impose new and additional challenges for the mountain context, both for natural and human systems. Changes in precipitation regimes, glacial retreat and alteration of ecosystem composition and its structure, among other climate change related effects, together with persistent degradation of the environment, land use change, deforestation and unsustainable natural...
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