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Land and Water Use Needn’t Be a Zero-Sum Game

Posted on 17 June 2012 by admin

By Busani Bafana

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 17 (TerraViva) Integrated landscape systems that promote cooperation over competition can end global conflicts over water, energy and land use stemming from how the world produces food, says a new global study. Continue Reading

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RIO+20: Developing Countries Accept Green Economy

Posted on 17 June 2012 by admin

By Diana Cariboni

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 17 2012 (IPS) – It’s not true that developing countries conditioned the inclusion of the green economy in the final document at Rio+20 on clearly defined provisions for financing, the head of the Venezuelan delegation, Claudia Salerno, told TerraViva. Continue Reading

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New Set of Sustainable Development Goals Looks Beyond 2015

Posted on 17 June 2012 by admin

By Thalif Deen

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 17 (TerraViva) – When world leaders from over 100 countries wind up their three-day Rio+20 summit in Brazil next week, they will leave behind the shattered remains of a slew of proposals that never got off the ground. Continue Reading

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Steiner y Cumbre de los Pueblos chocan por economía verde

Posted on 17 June 2012 by admin

Por Fabiana Frayssinet

RÍO DE JANEIRO, 17 jun (TerraViva) El director ejecutivo del Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA), Achim Steiner, cree que él y la Cumbre de los Pueblos coinciden en que el actual modelo económico causó el colapso ambiental. Pero el diálogo sobre cómo sustituirlo se volvió un áspero debate. Continue Reading

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Mineração, matriz perversa da economia verde, segundo ativistas

Posted on 17 June 2012 by admin

Por Mario Osava

RIO DE JANEIRO, 16 jun (TerraViva) Economia verde é o novo demônio de boa parte dos ativistas socioambientais que participam dos debates na Cúpula dos Povos, no Aterro do Flamengo.

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Concrete Goals the Only Recipe for Success

Posted on 16 June 2012 by admin

By Stephen Leahy

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 16 (TerraViva) Goals drive action, and that’s why establishing a set of Sustainable Development Goals is so important to put the world on a sustainable pathway, experts said Saturday under the tropical fig and palm forest that covers much of the ground at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Continue Reading

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People’s Summit Alive With the Sound of Voices

Posted on 16 June 2012 by admin

Fabiana Frayssinet

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 16 2012 (TerraViva) – Swallowed up in the crowd in front of the spectacular Guanabara Bay, indigenous leader Apolinario from Brazil’s Amazon rainforest acted as an impromptu guide on the first day of the People’s Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

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Cilantro Spices Up Coexistence with Drought in Brazil

Posted on 16 June 2012 by admin

Mario Osava

JEREMOABO, Brazil, Jun 16 (TerraViva) Many grow lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, beets and other vegetables. But cilantro is ever-present in the gardens that are helping rural families weather the lengthy drought that is once again wracking Brazil’s impoverished Northeast.

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“Não basta estar presente na Rio+20, tem que ter compromisso”

Posted on 16 June 2012 by admin

Por Fabíola Ortiz

RIO DE JANEIRO, 16 jun (TerraViva) – Não basta estar presente na Rio+20, tem que ter compromisso, é o que defende o biofísico brasileiro Henrique Lins de Barros, pesquisador do Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF).

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Boff: La vida es lo sagrado de la Carta de la Tierra

Posted on 16 June 2012 by admin

Por Fabiana Frayssinet

RÍO DE JANEIRO, 16 jun (TerraViva) A Leonardo Boff no le gusta hablar de la Carta de la Tierra como de una nueva Biblia. Pero del documento, que según el teólogo brasileño es “el más bello del siglo XXI”, rescata un carácter sagrado: la salvación de la vida. Continue Reading

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