Category: UN Commission on Sustainable Development

The UN Commission on Sustainable Development was established in 1992 following the Earth Summit (which also launched the “Rio Conventions” on Climate Change, Biodiversity, and to Combat Desertification). Its goal is to follow the progress on the implementation of Agenda 21 (a plan of action from the Earth Summit) and the Rio Declaration.
You can learn more about it’s structure here.

Selling Indigenous at the People’s Summit

Lara Shirley June 17, 2012 0 Comments

by Lara Shirley I went to the People’s Summit yesterday. It was its first day, and was inaugurated by an impressively large gathering of indigenous people. It was very powerful: they were dressed in their traditional clothes and dancing. I stopped by a few hours later as well and noticed that, while there were still some events going on, many of the indigenous people had set up around the tents...

Rio+20 anda en pantuflas

COA Admin June 17, 2012 1 Comment

Rio+20 anda en pantuflas por Anyuri Betegón Amaneció el tercer día de las negociaciones y las promesas quedaron por cumplir. La ceremonia de inauguración del PrepCom III (Comité Preparatorio encargado de establecer el programa, concluir la redacción de la declaración de principios, plan de acción y decidir las modalidades de...

Información y sustentabilidad agrícola en Rio+20

COA Admin June 17, 2012 0 Comments

By Juan Olmedo La transferencia de información es un pre-requisito para la sustentabilidad. Sólo compartiendo experiencias y conocimiento podremos superar la crisis ambiental, social, alimentaria, económica, etc. en la que nos encontramos. En la conferencia de Rio+20 miles de personas de todo el mundo intercambian información de muchas maneras....

Beyond Their ‘Monkey Business’ Future

COA Admin June 16, 2012 0 Comments

By Nimisha Bastedo The discussion ended at the first Preparatory Committee meeting for Rio+20 back in May 2010. It ended when all of the people’s concerns were not implemented into that “zero-minus draft” that formed the basis of these negotiations. For twenty years, negotiators have led us through this bracketing and un-bracketing, and now they are being put up in $500-a-night...

Reaction to Brazil’s “Presentation of a New Text”

jvelez June 16, 2012 0 Comments

Julian gives an update on today's events: As host country, Brazil takes charge of negotiations, and developes a new text (with merged and newly agreed-upon paragraphs) for the work to continue on. Then they distribute it...in the delegates-only pavilion. Oh, and Switzerland wants to go to the beach.