Beyond the Negotiations

Beyond Their ‘Monkey Business’ Future

COA Admin June 16, 2012 0 Comments

By Nimisha Bastedo The discussion ended at the first Preparatory Committee meeting for Rio+20 back in May 2010. It ended when all of the people’s concerns were not implemented into that “zero-minus draft” that formed the basis of these negotiations. For twenty years, negotiators have led us through this bracketing and un-bracketing, and now they are being put up in $500-a-night...

Rio+20: ¿El Futuro Que Realmente Queremos?

Nathan Thanki June 16, 2012 0 Comments

by Julian Velez Frente a la profunda crisis económica, social y ambiental de nuestro planeta nuestros gobiernos están fracasando en proponer soluciones reales y en priorizar el bienestar social y ambiental en sus agendas políticas. Esto se vive en las negociaciones del texto “The Future We Want” (El Futuro Que Queremos), plataforma de discusión de la...

If I were a delegate….

Maria Escalante June 15, 2012 0 Comments

by Maria Alejandra Escalante If I were a delegate at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, I would not be the kind of delegate I saw at the negotiations on Sustainable Consumption and Production, Water and Climate Change during Prepcom III. I would not be like them because they induce morbidity, disengagement, lethargy and utter silence. A silence that betrays the people these delegates...

¿…desarollo sostenible? ¿Qué hay del proceso?

COA Admin June 15, 2012 1 Comment

El Futuro que Queremos será imposible si tenemos este presente. El cuarto es gris, con alfombras, mesas una a la par de otra creando las orillas de un rectángulo. Nueve sillas adelante y detrás, dieciséis a cada lado. 50 asientos azules que recibirán a los delegados oficiales de distintos países que vienen aquí a discutir, de acuerdo a la agenda,...

A Leopard Doesn’t Change Its Spots

Nathan Thanki June 14, 2012 0 Comments

Thoughts on the "Green Economy" and Rio+20 by Adrian Fernandez Jauregui Published on Stakeholder Forum's Outreach magazine It’s been almost 2 years of mounting excitement around the Rio+20 conference. But what is there to be excited about? How has the world changed in the past 20 years since Rio? Has the lot of the world’s poor been improved?...