Since the Rio+20, several African countries have adopted green-growth strategies and are pursuing green growth in selected sectors. As of June 2015, several countries had or were in the process of developing green economy strategies or action plans at the national level. These include Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, South …
Environment minister Prakash Javadekar says the government is working on a plan to `stop and reverse' the serious threat With India’s food security under threat, with nearly 81 million hectares facing desertification, environment minister Prakash Javadekar said that the government was working on a plan to “stop and reverse” the …
Union Minister for Environment and Forests Jayanthi Natarajan supported the G77 walkout at talks on Loss and Damage. “We totally agree with the G77 position. This is a very weak draft [on loss and damage]. It is extremely diluted and shows absolutely no commitment to the loss and damage. This …
World leaders at the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) reaffirmed their commitment to sustainable development which embraces economic progress, social development, and environmental protection for the benefit of all. One of the principal outcomes of Rio+20 was the call to develop a set of universally applicable sustainable …
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) in June 2012—commonly referred to as Rio+20—left many perplexed. If a number of advances were made, the results fell well short of what is needed to redirect the global economy onto a sustainable course. Given that 20 years have passed since the …
Many countries do their best to preserve the diversity of their flora and fauna. However, the Maldives have gone even further. The authorities of the island nation assured that within four years the whole country would become the first biosphere reserve in the world. This will allow to preserve the …
How climate change science is conducted, communicated and translated into policy must be radically transformed if 'dangerous' climate change is to be averted.
A deal is one thing. A deal that means progress another. By the end of the three-day UN environment summit due to end on June 23rd in Rio de Janeiro, a hundred-plus national leaders and representatives were expected to approve a 283-point agreement negotiated in advance by their envoys. The …
Next week, thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, non governmental organizations, and other stakeholders will gather in Brazil at a United Nations (UN) summit to secure political and economic commitments for sustainable development and to address new and emerging challenges. These objectives recall the 1992 UN Conference on …
For growing economies the stress has to be on patterns of natural resource use and not on the status of natural resources; that is, dealing with the causes rather than the symptoms of the problem of climate change. The time has come for rapidly growing Asia to distinguish between the …
The US submission on elements of the post-2015 agreement is a good basis for further deliberation by countries, as it is exhaustive with only some elements needing to be debated for a global consensus. The US quite rightly acknowledges that “with respect to CBDR/RC in particular, we endorse the view …
