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Africa: From Culprits to Saviours - Triumph of Green Capital At Rio+20
Stockholm :: Sweden | 10 months ago
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Here, at a suburb far from the favelas shadowing Copacabana or Ipanema, CEOs and other top officials from some of the world's largest corporations patted each other's back and exhorted each other to be even more ambitious...This was 'Business Day', a
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India, UNESCO partner for Gandhi institute
New Delhi :: India | 10 months ago
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Paris. "The challenges of the 21st century are qualitatively different from the challenges of the 20th century. Global understanding and education would assist in appreciating the impact of these challenges on peace and its relation to sustainable
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Post-Rio+20 News
Honiara :: Solomon Islands | 10 months ago
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Twenty countries and over 2000 participants are taking part in the largest festival in the South Pacific. Participating countries include some of the world's smallest and most climate vulnerable countries, that have been affected by rising sea levels,
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Letter: Real action vs declamatory diplomacy
Bangkok :: Thailand | 11 months ago
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It is quite rewarding to learn from Adam Tomasek, who attended the Rio+20 Summit in Brazil, that despite the many disappointments of this affair, Indonesia earned the opportunity to lead the world by showing, through tangible examples from places
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Africa: Five Things We've Learned From Rio+20
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 11 months ago
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This hasn't stopped pundits from either labelling it a disaster and the final agreement "283 "paragraphs of fluff", or flagging up reasons for optimism and perspective. All global summits are written off in the immediate aftermath. While the outcomes
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Biofuel opportunities key to co-op between China and Canada
Beijing :: China | 11 months ago
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John Harker, president and vice-chancellor of Cape Breton University (CBU) of Canada, who will be visiting Beijing and Henan province between July 3rd and July 10th, sees significant potential in biofuels as a source of shared research that will
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Africa: 'Rule of Law Cardinal'
Lusaka :: Zambia | 11 months ago
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The reminder was made in the declaration presented to the Heads of State that attended the Rio+ 20 Conference in Brazil by the members of the World Congress on Justice, Government and Law for Environmental Sustainability that ended recently. The
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SET mulls sustainable development index
Ranong :: Thailand | 11 months ago
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He said there should not only be indices to gauge companies' financial performance but also another kind of index that calibrates their responsibility to the community and environmental protection...He said he was convinced that listed firms would
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Africa: Rio+20 - Governments Gamble With Our Future
Washington :: NJ :: USA | 11 months ago
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These struggles take place on diverse territories and geographies including the body, land, oceans and waterways, communities, states, and epistemological grounds. Each of these terrains is fraught with the resurgent forces of patriarchy, fnance
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Sustainability gets UN clout
Kyōto :: Japan | 11 months ago
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The Rio+20 conference may not have produced an Earth-saving global deal, but it succeeded in keeping sustainable development at the top of the agenda of the world's leaders, experts said this week. Chief among its achievements was the plan to develop
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