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Are you ready to Connect4Climate?

Posted on 20 June 2012 by admin

By Sabina Zaccaro

In the run-up to the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP 17) in Durban, South Africa last December, the World Bank Connect4Climate social media campaign launched a photo and video contest on climate change.

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Quatro países bloquearam a proteção aos oceanos

Posted on 20 June 2012 by admin

Por Julio Godoy

RIO DE JANEIRO, 19 de junho (TerraViva) Três países industrializados – Estados Unidos, Canadá e Japão – e a Rússia bloquearam um avanço substancial na proteção dos oceanos na Conferência das Nações Unidas sobre Desenvolvimento Sustentável, a Rio+20, no Rio de Janeiro, de acordo com ativistas ambientais. Continue Reading

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Na África, os renováveis iluminam a escuridão

Posted on 20 June 2012 by admin

Por Julio Godoy

RIO DE JANEIRO, 18 de junho (TerraViva) Cúpulas gigantes como a Rio+20 podem facilmente degenerar em papo-furado e cenário para discursos inúteis. Continue Reading

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TerraViva, the Inconvenient Witness

Posted on 20 June 2012 by admin

By Roberto Savio*

The 1992 Earth Summit was one of the great moments of collective optimism. Maurice Strong of Canada, who founded the U.N. Environment Programme, managed to move on three fronts simultaneously. First, the customary one, was to call together the heads of state.

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Além da Rio+20: juntos por um futuro sustentável

Posted on 20 June 2012 by admin

Por José Graziano*

RIO DE JANEIRO, 18 junho (TerraViva) – As declarações finais da Conferência das Nações Unidas sobre Meio Ambiente Humano de 1972 e a ECO-92 puseram o ser humano no centro do desenvolvimento sustentável. No entanto, até hoje, mais de 900 milhões de pessoas ainda passam fome.

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Ativistas de direitos humanos em risco por defender meio ambiente

Posted on 20 June 2012 by admin

Por Fabíola Ortiz

RIO DE JANEIRO, 19 Junho (TerraViva) – No momento em que o mundo se reúne para discutir a preservação do meio ambiente e desenvolvimento sustentável na Rio+20, só na última década, os conflitos em defesa dos recursos naturais se acirraram ocasionando a morte de 711 ativistas e membros de comunidades locais.

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Megacities Face Life or Death Choices

Posted on 20 June 2012 by admin

Analysis by Julio Godoy

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 20 (TerraViva) The cliché that mammoth summits like Rio+20 are “too big to succeed” can also be applied to the megacities of our day such as Rio de Janeiro: they are simply too big to become green and sustainable. Continue Reading

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Sustentabilidade por amor

Posted on 20 June 2012 by admin

Por Alice Marcondes

RIO DE JANEIRO, 20 junho (TerraViva) “Quando os chefes de governo deixam de exercer sua liderança, eles deixam de ser importantes.” Esta foi a maneira como a canadense Severn Suzuki expressou seu sentimento em relação à Rio+20, a Conferência das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável, que acontece no Rio de Janeiro até o dia 22.

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New Economic Yardstick Includes “Natural Capital”

Posted on 20 June 2012 by admin

By Julio Godoy

RÍO DE JANEIRO, Jun 20, 2012 (IPS) – Assigning nature a monetary value and incorporating it into gross domestic product (GDP) are key aspects of a global policy of sustainable development, according to legislators and scientists gathered at the first world summit organised by GLOBE international, an association of parliamentarians concerned with environmental policies.

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Putting Gender on the Green Development Agenda

Posted on 20 June 2012 by admin

By Busani Bafana

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 20 (TerraViva) A majority of the 150-member Cooperative for the Conservation of the Environment (COOCEN) in Kigali, Rwanda are empowered women, who must balance raising children, managing homes and providing food. Continue Reading

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