Welcome to our special page for the Rio+20 Earth Summit (or to give it its full title: Rio+20 - United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development). We are covering the main summit itself on 20-22 June and the G20 meeting that immediately preceeded it.
At Rio’s Earth Summit, another chance to take action to address hunger and climate change passes us by. Friday marked the end of the Rio +20 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Given the low expectations...
1992 was a time when it seemed fairly futuristic to talk about environment degradation, climate change, green economy but twenty years later with ever more alarming statistics on poverty and hunger...
World leaders agreed today to support European efforts to integrate European banking sectors in a bid to support governments affected by the ongoing Eurozone crisis. Heads of state had earlier...
The G20 summit’s now wrapped up. In a summit otherwise dominated by the Eurozone crisis, our small team – together with our partners from ANEC, a Mexican farmer’s network – have been pushing our...
Monday morning was reserved for the Women’s March at the People’s Summit.As a former student of international relations, I've always wondered about the real meaning of the UN Charter...
The true transformation to sustainable development is not in the Rio+20, but in the People's Summit.After an exausting three days of negotiations to try and reach consensus on the...
It’s time for another beach resort G20 summit – this time it’s Live from Los Cabos, Mexico. Only seven months ago, world leaders gathered in the beach resort town of Cannes, France. Now they’re back...
This week the United National Conference for Sustainable Development (UNCSD), also known as Rio+20 kicks off in Rio. Consisting of world leaders and thousands of participants from all forms and...
Today was another day that Flamengo Park in Rio de Janeiro was full of people, traditional knowledge, ideas and good intentions for a world socially and environmentally fair. This Sunday, the...
You can’t listen to negotiations for much more than 15 minutes here at the Rio+20 summit before you hear the expression “I am in your hands”. It’s not an expression of love between negotiators, but...
