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Will Water Dry Up at Rio Summit?

Posted on 11 June 2012 by admin

By Thalif Deen

UNITED NATIONS, June 11 (IPS/TerraViva) – The headline in a New York newspaper last March captured the essence of a future potential threat to political stability the world over: “U.S. Report Sees Tensions Over Water.” Continue Reading

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On the Road to Green European Farming

Posted on 11 June 2012 by admin

By Claudia Ciobanu

WARSAW, June 11, 2012 (TerraViva) European farming is based on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the EU, whose main logic, to produce increasingly more food largely through industrial farming, needs reassessment. Continue Reading

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Putting Resilience at the Heart of Development

Posted on 08 June 2012 by admin

By Helen Clark*

UNITED NATIONS, June 8, 2012 (IPS) – The world’s population today is healthier, wealthier, and better educated than ever before. Yet, despite incredible progress, disconcerting realities stubbornly persist. Continue Reading

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La resiliencia es la base del desarrollo

Posted on 08 June 2012 by admin

Por Helen Clark *

NACIONES UNIDAS, jun (IPS) – La población mundial es hoy más sana, más rica y mejor educada que nunca antes. Pero con estos avances increíbles aún conviven realidades desconcertantes. Continue Reading

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La cura de la Tierra ya existe

Posted on 07 June 2012 by admin

Por Stephen Leahy

UXBRIDGE, Canadá, jun (IPS) – El Ãrtico alcanzó una concentración récord de dióxido de carbono de 400 partes por millón (ppm). La última vez que la Tierra registró niveles similares fue hace tres millones de años, durante la era del Plioceno. Continue Reading

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Brasil cierra símbolo de degradación ambiental, antes de Río+20

Posted on 07 June 2012 by admin

Por Fabíola Ortiz

RÃO DE JANEIRO,  jun (IPS) – En vísperas de acoger la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible, Rio+20, que discutirá el rumbo de la economía verde, esta ciudad brasileña pone fin a uno de sus mayores crímenes ambientales: el gigantesco basurero de Gramacho, en la Bahía de Guanabara. Continue Reading

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La ONU viaja a Río+20 borrando sus huellas

Posted on 07 June 2012 by admin

Por Thalif Deen

NACIONES UNIDAS, 4 jun (IPS) – Mientras los líderes de la comunidad internacional se preparan para la cumbre Río+20 este mes, la ONU parece decidida a practicar lo que predica: mejorar su eficiencia y reducir drásticamente sus emisiones de gases invernadero. Continue Reading

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Ahead of Rio+20, “The Economy is Already Turning Green”

Posted on 07 June 2012 by admin

Sabina Zaccaro interviews CORRADO CLINI, Italian Minister of Environment

ROME, Jun 7, 2012 (IPS) – While governments make a last desperate attempt to agree on a plan of action for next week’s Rio+20 summit on sustainable development – including plans on the transition to a green economy and a set of sustainable development goals – the real economy is already turning green, according to Italy’s minister of environment, Corrado Clini.

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World Faces Stark Choice at Rio+20, UN Report Warns

Posted on 07 June 2012 by admin

By Isabella De Grave

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 7, 2012 (IPS) – Irreversible environmental damage threatens to destabilise the world’s life-support systems unless urgent action is taken, according to the latest Global Environment Report (GEO-5) which looks to the Rio+20 summit as a crucial opportunity to halt this decline.

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Calls for an African Green Revolution, Only Smarter

Posted on 07 June 2012 by admin

By Carey L. Biron

To deal with looming food crises in the coming decades, Africa needs a Green Revolution on par with what took place in Asia during the 1960s and 1970s, according to experts in Washington.

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