What is Water Scarcity: A Primer
Open publication - Free publishing - More privitization
Category: UN Commission on Sustainable Development
The UN Commission on Sustainable Development was established in 1992 following the Earth Summit (which also launched the “Rio Conventions” on Climate Change, Biodiversity, and to Combat Desertification). Its goal is to follow the progress on the implementation of Agenda 21 (a plan of action from the Earth Summit) and the Rio Declaration.
You can learn more about it’s structure here.
What is the “Green Economy”: A Primer
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Responding to Youth Blast questions
by nathan thanki On the second morning of the international section of the #youthblast, the organisers asked those gathered as the Major Group for Children and Youth (the official Youth constituency for this UN process) a series of "questions you were always too afraid to ask" about Rio+20. As a group we hesitantly attempted to answer the following: What do we do after Rio? How...
Video Update: The Case of the Hostel-turned-Club
Anna gives a quick update on the strangeness of our hostel, and what we did on the last day of Youth Blast
Achim Steiner, Youth Development and the Future of Exploitation for the Natural World
by Bogdan Zymka Achim Steiner is the Executive Director of United Nations Environment Programme. His background includes international development and enviornmnetal policy. “The environment usually loses to talks of economics.” Steiner was greeted with quiet applause when he arrived for his impromptu visit to the Youth Blast, (a space designated to voice the concerns of...