Tag: Green Economy

A Date With History (script) English and Spanish version

Nathan Thanki May 6, 2012 0 Comments
This script was writen by a group of us for a video context in preparation to the Rio+20 conference. by Anjali Appadurai, Nimisha Bastedo, Anyuri Betegon, Graham Reeder, Nathan Thanki, Julian Velez, and Trudi Zundel. The video can be seen here. We are Earth in Brackets and the future we want requires radical change. Radical: Favoring drastic political, economic, and social reforms. Radical:...

Green economy: the square ball that negotiators struggle to roll

Adrian May 3, 2012 0 Comments
by Adrian Fernandez Jauregui There is frustration and irritation revisiting, once more, the hallways and negotiating rooms of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD). Despite the commonly used rhetoric about “moving forward” and “streamlining the text", progress is slow and the outcome is uncertain. In Working Group I negotiations (section three and five of the zero draft), the...

The Green Economy Will Inspire All Nations with Positive Light?

jvelez March 22, 2012 0 Comments
By Julian Velez The EU again steps forward to propose the idea of a roadmap for the Green Economy. They are testing the waters, looking at the reactions of the different groups in order to come up with a proposal of how that roadmap should look like. Their position on how to implement this roadmap is quite visible. Their roadmap plan demonstrates their lack of inclusion of the developing world,...