Tag: Rio+20

Reaction to Brazil’s “Presentation of a New Text”

jvelez June 16, 2012 0 Comments
Julian gives an update on today's events: As host country, Brazil takes charge of negotiations, and developes a new text (with merged and newly agreed-upon paragraphs) for the work to continue on. Then they distribute it...in the delegates-only pavilion. Oh, and Switzerland wants to go to the beach.  

If I were a delegate….

Maria Escalante June 15, 2012 0 Comments
by Maria Alejandra Escalante If I were a delegate at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, I would not be the kind of delegate I saw at the negotiations on Sustainable Consumption and Production, Water and Climate Change during Prepcom III. I would not be like them because they induce morbidity, disengagement, lethargy and utter silence. A silence that betrays the people these delegates...

Urgency and Emergency

COA Admin June 14, 2012 0 Comments
A conversation with a delegate By Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler The shuttle to the UN conference center only stops in front of the major hotels, where the important country delegates are staying.  Hot air rises to upper-income accommodation.  After the walk or taxi ride to the nearest hotel, it’s another hour by bus to get to the convention center.  Most days I think that time will...

A Leopard Doesn’t Change Its Spots

Nathan Thanki June 14, 2012 0 Comments
  Thoughts on the "Green Economy" and Rio+20 by Adrian Fernandez Jauregui Published on Stakeholder Forum's Outreach magazine It’s been almost 2 years of mounting excitement around the Rio+20 conference. But what is there to be excited about? How has the world changed in the past 20 years since Rio? Has the lot of the world’s poor been improved?...