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.

Date with History (again)

Nathan Thanki June 12, 2012 0 Comments
"The Future We Want" Earth in Brackets from Devin Altobello Documentarian on Vimeo.   The Date with History competition is long gone, but we thought that we'd share our entry, our vision, ahead of the opening of the prep comm in Rio tomorrow, where negotiations will resume on "The Future We Want," a document that is many miles off the Future We Really Want.

¿Qué hace Colombia en Rio+20?: intenta producir un resultado tangible

Maria Escalante June 12, 2012 0 Comments
by Maria Alejandra Escalante No recuerdo la última vez que Colombia, como delegación representativa, tuvo un papel significativo en algún encuentro de negociaciones intergubernamentales en la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU). Colombia, país denominado como en `vía de desarrollo` (en muchos aspectos un término cierto dadas las condiciones de vida de la mayoría de la población),...

[Earth] and Rio+20

COA Admin June 6, 2012 2 Comments
Rio+20 delegation member Nimisha Bastedo created this video about Earth in Brackets and Rio+20! Earth in Brackets at Rio+20 from on Vimeo. Earth in Brackets is a student organization based out of College of College of the Atlantic that engages with international environmental and sustainable development politics. We have been following the process leading up to the United Nations Conference on...

Expectations, Expectations

COA Admin June 5, 2012 0 Comments
Why global summits matter: Rio+20 by Ana Puhač When last December TIME magazine featured the “the protester” as the person of the year, I thought how in the future, that publication could be seen as one of the most symbolic images that marked the start of a new global era. The world is in crisis? Isn’t that what every generation before us, facing a transition into a new global paradigm has...