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Río + ???

By Candido Grzysbowski Where have we got to at the end of the day? Where are we going? What vision do we have of the destiny we share so closely with nature? In what way can we create the conditions to ensure that all human beings, whoever they are, can live well and find happiness [...]

What now after Rio?

By the Asia Pacific Research Network As Rio+20 leaves the world’s future in the hands of businesses, APRN echoes system change; vows to struggle with the people in achieving genuine sustainable development The Asia Pacific Research Network (APRN) reaffirms the resounding calls that were made in Rio against corporate green economy on the one hand, [...]

Rio+20 Earth Summit: campaigners decry final document

By Jonathan Watts and Liz Ford, the Guardian. Amid doubt, disappointment and division, the world’s governments came together in Rio on Friday to declare “a pathway for a sustainable century”. At the close of the Rio+20 Earth Summit, heads of state and ministers from more than 190 nations signed off on a plan to set [...]

The Economy we need

Declaration of the Social and Solidarity Economy movement at Rio +20   The People’s Summit and the United Nations Conference for Sustainable Development of Rio+20 are being held at a time of crisis of our civilisation that takes multiple forms: food, ecology, energy, financial, social and of political representation. And it is not the same [...]

Conclusions by ANPED – Northern Alliance for Sustainability

Rio+20 has produced ‘The Future we want’: a document that shows a complete lack of urgency and political leadership. ANPED launched a petition ‘The Future we DONT want’ that already has more than 2000 signatures from individuals and organizations all over the world. The document reflects short-term national agenda’s and makes no mention at all [...]

“Green Economy” aggravates migration push-factors

Joint Statement of the International Migrants Alliance (IMA) and the Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM) on the Rio+20   The attempts in Rio+20 by developed countries to downgrade agreements reached in the 1992 Earth Summit are acts that reveal the rapacious corporate agenda behind “Green Economy”. It is aimed at paving the way for [...]

Tough fight over means of implementation

By Third World Network Rio de Janeiro, 22 June (TWN) – While governments at the closing of the pre-conference informal consultations were reasonably satisfied with the delicate balance achieved in the outcome document for the Rio+20 Conference, many were deeply disappointed with the lack of ambition in the section on the means of implementation, with [...]

Critical issues for Asia Pacific women missing from “The Future We Want”

Rio de Janeiro (June 21, 2012): Women from Asia Pacific demand governments address critical issues on women’s human rights missing in the Rio+20 negotiations for sustainable development. Employment and economic rights, militarisation, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and women’s role in climate change significantly impact women across the region, yet are being ignored. Asia [...]

Rio+20 or Silent Spring-50?

By ETC Group Governments mark 50 years of failure…and a couple of nano-steps forward   For a lot of the world, ‘Rio+20’ signifies the big environmental jamboree taking place this week in Brazil – before the Olympics and after the Queen’s Jubilee. For the thousands of negotiators and civil society observers, including ETC Group, who [...]

Overview of outcome and negotiations of “green economy”

Rio de Janeiro, 20 June (Alex Rafalowicz) – The United Nations General Assembly resolution (A/RES/64/236) establishing the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (“Rio+20”) set as one of its themes: “a green economy in the context of sustainable development.”   Since that decision, a section of the draft outcome document has always borne that title, [...]