[Earth]’s first Video update!
Hello friends, Here's our first ever video blog - an update on our first day at the Youth Blast, and what we've been working on:
Tag: Sustainable development
¿Qué hace Colombia en Rio+20?: intenta producir un resultado tangible
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
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
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...
The Road to Rio+20
by Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler In less than a month Rio+20 will begin. Government delegations from nearly every country in the world will arrive in the RioCentro put on their translation headsets and try to find common ground on the future of humankind’s place in the environment. Thousands of people will flood the streets for the People’s Summit – which promises to foster an alternative,...