Sustainable Development

Illustrating Water and Austerity – The Troikatastrophe

Aneesa Khan July 3, 2015 0 Comments

by Aneesa Khan What would voting “yes” at the referendum on Sunday mean for the people of Greece? It would be a giant aye to the creditors to go ahead with bailout impositions upon the country – impositions that hit the citizens the hardest. These austerity measures (like pension cuts, privatization of public resources like water and motorways, increased taxes and reductions in government...

Climate Change Is a Crisis We Can Only Solve Together

Adrian June 18, 2015 1 Comment

Re-posted from The Nation, written by Naomi Klein Two weeks ago, in the secluded but beautiful island of MDI, a number of Earth In Brackets members graduated from College of the Atlantic (COA). The graduation ceremony was great, not only because it was finally sunny (even though it seemed that summer will never arrive to that part of the world), but they also had an amazing commencement speaker:...

World Leaders Lack Ambition to Tackle Climate Crisis

Crossposts April 9, 2015 0 Comments

* This blog was written by our friend, Dipti Bhatnagar and Susann Scherbarth from Friends of the Earth an International, and cross posted from IPS, “Poor and rural communities are disproportionately affected by the climate crisis. It is them – who did the least to create this problem – who are suffering the most from it” BRUSSELS/MAPUTO, Apr 1 2015 (IPS) - World governments expect to...

Post-2015 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals: sessions 1 and 2 on Indicators for Goals and Targets

Aura Silva Martinez March 26, 2015 1 Comment

The Monday sessions and the Tuesday morning session focused on member states delivering their concerns about the list of indicators presented by the Statistical Committee for measuring the implementation of the targets for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the Post-2015 agenda. The general notions among member states suggested that this first draft for the indicators shows there is...

Major Group of Children and Youth Intervention

Jenna Farineau March 25, 2015 0 Comments

Our very own Aura Silva had the privilege of sharing the intervention on behalf of the Major Group for Children and Youth this morning in the opening session. The intervention states the thoughts and demands from the position of children and youth on the Sustainable Development Goal indicators that have been discussed here for the past 3 days. The intervention was received very well, especially...