In 1992, at the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, governments made powerful commitments to sustainable development, producing the landmark United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Convention on Biodiversity and the Agenda 21. Yet almost twenty years after Rio, our planet is confronted with unprecedented ecological and socio-economic crises. A dangerously warming climate from the continuous build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is resulting in rising sea levels and massive weather disturbances – aggravating livelihood, food and water insecurity for the world’s poor; and a recent global financial and economic meltdown has thrown hundreds of millions of people below the poverty threshold.
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COVER STORY
Rio and back
In 1992, at the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, governments made powerful commitments to sustainable development, producing the landmark United Nations Framework Convention on ...
Revolutionising the way we produce and distribute energy could curb greenhouse gas emissions, create jobs and help fight poverty. It is time to replace the fossil fuel monopoly with decentralised ...
We are looking at the end of (relatively) cheap oil, food and transportation, crises that have already had a devastating impact on Third World nations and communities of color. These ...
SPECIAL FEATURE
Before corporate globalization crashed, the transition towns movement had already started making waves on a more human, local scale. Rowenna Davis reports on the ‘engaged optimism’ that looks for positive ...
Innovative strategies for cooperative local ownership make it possible for prosperity to be shared as well as sustainable.
Drive across southern Minnesota near the city of Luverne, and you'll see ...
Corporate agriculture is failing to feed the world. This short statement should be enough to summarize the global food crisis – that it is not entirely about supply-demand equations but ...
NEWS
Governments that are Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) concluded a two-week meeting in Nagoya, Japan on 29 October by adopting more than 40 decisions, of which ...
Embassy dispatches show America used spying, threats and promises of aid to get support for Copenhagen accord.
Cancún, Mexico - As the sun rose over Cancún early Saturday morning, an agreement was reached at the COP 16. Nations lauded the work of the Mexican Foreign Secretary Patricia ...
STATEMENT
Despite the optimism placed on them, the Cancun Agreements of the 2010 UN Climate Summit do not represent a success for multilateralism; neither do they put the world on a ...
BOOK REVIEW
This is a book with a big idea, big enough to change political thinking, and bigger than its authors at first intended. The problem they originally set out to solve ...
FACTS AND FIGURES
We may not have noticed, but in 2006, world crude oil production reached 70 mbd (million barrels per day), a peak it is expected never to return to. This information ...
Not only that: CO2 emissions will have to peak in 2011, and then drop ata staggeringly rapid rate of about 10% per year.
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