Category: Rio+20

Our Red Line: Action at Rio+20

Lara Shirley June 21, 2012 0 Comments
by Lara Shirley Earth in Brackets participated in an action today called 'Our Red Line'. 'Our Red Line' was an action aimed at drawing the essential, red line that Rio+20 should uphold for humanity, the earth and the future. It evolved from how the term was used over the past few days, as Brazil has been asking countries to remove brackets from the text and instead only state...

Reactions to the People’s Summit

aodell June 20, 2012 0 Comments
  By Anna Odell  After my first week in Rio, which I spent almost entirely cooped up in buildings, I was ready for a change of scenery. After spending just three days at the PrepComm in Riocentro with UN delegates and negotiators made me crave the sunlight and some fresh air. I was looking forward to feeling some sand beneath my toes and to finding some inspiration at People’s...

No more brackets, at least for now

COA Admin June 17, 2012 1 Comment
By Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler So the night before last the Brazilian government came up with a new negotiating text, and from now on they will be chairing the negotiations.  Being the host country has its perks.  The consensus seems to be that the new version isn’t terrible but it leaves out a lot of important stuff, like an Ombudperson for Future Generations. The interesting part is that the...

Selling Indigenous at the People’s Summit

Lara Shirley June 17, 2012 0 Comments
by Lara Shirley I went to the People’s Summit yesterday. It was its first day, and was inaugurated by an impressively large gathering of indigenous people. It was very powerful: they were dressed in their traditional clothes and dancing. I stopped by a few hours later as well and noticed that, while there were still some events going on, many of the indigenous people had set up around the tents...