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
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
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
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
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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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
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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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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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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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