Beyond the Negotiations

¿Si un barco se hunde es porque todos están del mismo lado? Siempre hay algo más

COA Admin June 24, 2012 0 Comments

escrito por Anyuri Betegón El barco que todos habíamos abordado hace un año camino a Rio+20 giraba en círculos y al final durante el último mes tomaba posiciones definitivas en diferentes direcciones. Brasil tomó el mando del barco luego del PrepCom III (durante los días de los diálogos), presentando al final una dirección que para...

Apariencias insostenibles.

COA Admin June 23, 2012 0 Comments

Regresé a darle otro vistazo al proceso de las Metas de Desarollo Sostenible, y esta vez la lección que me esperaba era mucho más grande de lo que esperaba. Al terminarse la ronda de negociaciones anterior, el gobierno brasileño tomó las riendas del proceso. Lo que significa esto, es que el gobierno de este país tomó en sus manos la tarea de...

What happened at Rio+20

COA Admin June 23, 2012 0 Comments

A few important proposals, and what happened to them By Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler Most of us from the team spent yesterday recovering from a six hour-long action at the RioCentro that included a People’s Plenary and walkout. There is a lot to be said about that process of protest, catharsis, and democracy in its rawest form, but I’ll leave it to someone else. For some reason I’m...

United by Frustration

COA Admin June 23, 2012 1 Comment

By Nimisha Bastedo Throughout the entire Rio process, it seemed as though divisions within and between the different sectors of civil society were too wide to bridge. Attempts to create a major group common statement continued to fail. The most radical youth clashed with those who pushed for smaller ‘victories’ within the same old framework. Sofia Garcia, organizing partner (OP) for...

Rio plus zero

Nathan Thanki June 22, 2012 0 Comments

by nathan thanki For a "once in a generation" event, Rio+20 felt an awful lot like déjà-vu all over again. For those of us enough to enter the lion's den of global multilateralism at the UN, the fact that governments could have ended last week’s “third Preparatory Committee to the Conference on Sustainable Development” (the pre-game to the big...