Category: Rio+20

Brazilian fractals

Maria Escalante June 25, 2012 0 Comments
by Maria Alejandra Escalante “I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one. Gottfried Leibniz    Listening to political conversations about the past, the present and the future of Rio+20 has been a daily ingredient of my life since I first jumped into the...

An ambiguous path

COA Admin June 25, 2012 0 Comments
Discussing the concept of sustainability By Nimisha Bastedo Sustainability. It’s a word that can mean so much and so little at the same time. Throughout the entire Rio+20 roller-coaster, everyone from the most conservative State representatives to the most radical activists were either advocating for it, or at least pretending to be. If we all agree that we need to move towards a more...

Demand A Future

Crossposts June 25, 2012 0 Comments
Some new friends of ours were present at the Thursday action, and made a short video about it: Basta! Rio+20 Walk Out from Permacyclists on Vimeo. On June 21, 2012, leaders from around the world gathered in Rio de Janeiro to discuss sustainable development and related issues. Nobody hoped for much but the results were even worse than expected. Some members of civil society who were present...

Too bad no one really wanted sustainable development

Adrian June 24, 2012 1 Comment
   by Adrian Fernandez Jauregui   Rio+20 has come to an end. After an almost two and a half years long process governments finally came to an agreement just before the heads of state and ministers arrived to Rio de Janeiro. The outcome 49 pages text  was inaccurately called ¨the future we want¨, but then re-named to Our common vision. It was tough, even for them, to...

¿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...