June 2012

A high-level session hosted by the Danish prime minister and the President of South Korea and the Mexican Minister of the Environment filling in for his president and Unilever CEO…

The President of Bolivia starts with a passionate speech criticizing the conference for abusing the environment and serving the goals of all players. He says that the resolution wants weak…

At Rio Centro, many thousands of delegates, media and major groups (women, labor, youth, business, labor, etc.) representatives are meeting to discuss the challenges we face. What a nice change…

We have successfully negotiated two strongly contrasting (but equally) frenetic days in Rio. Now that I have a breather, I’d like to record my impressions of the two collaboratory sessions…

Rio Dialogues offers a public debate on the critical topic “Water”, currently on at Rio Centro. Dialogues is a public direct democratic initiative by the Brazilian government as their contribution to RIO+20. Within…

Phytoplankton off the New Zealand coastline. Source: NASA Earth ObservatoryFollowing a brief overview on the first session of the PRME Global Forum in our previous post, we feel it prudent to…

The People’s Front of JudeaMy initial intention was to provide some ill-informed interpretive commentary on the first session of the 3rd PRME Global Forum. Instead, I believe I can summarise…

“Today is not just another day and not just another conference. Today, we present to you the result of two years of voluntary work by many many passionate people who…

In order to offer a concrete experience of our 50+20 vision (see www.50plus20.org) our team has organized a series of collaboratory events during the RIO+20 conference. Imagine the collaboratory as a…

Finally, the moment arrived. We met the members of the 50+20 team on the beach in front of the Windsor Barra. People flew in from all over and we even…