Protests Pressure Rio+20 Leaders: Daily
A number of different protests have taken place around Rio de Janeiro as the Rio+20 Summit nears its climax.
June 22, 2012Topic
Rio+20
Rousseff Urges More Rio+20 Funds: Daily
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has used her speech at Rio+20 to call on developed nations to contribute more funds to...
June 21, 2012
Rio+20 Events in Favela Communities
As part of Rio+20 UN Conference, the Government of Rio has organized activities related to sustainable development practices in many...
June 19, 2012
UN Rio+20 High-Level Summit Begins
The UN’s Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development reaches its most important stage as the High-Level Summit gets underway, following months...
June 19, 2012
Businesses Vital to Rio+20 Success
The agreement and participation of the private sector has been a key ingredient at the UN’s milestone Rio+20 Conference on...
June 19, 2012
João Amorim, Cinema and Environment
The influence of film has made an impact on Environmentalism, from Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and more recently with...
June 19, 2012
Brazil Joins Forest Restoration Plan: Daily
The IUCN, announced on Monday at Riocentro that different organizations from Brazil, the U.S. and Rwanda have agreed in restoring...
June 19, 2012
NGO Radio Covering Rio+20 Closed: Daily
Rádio Cúpula dos Povos (People’s Summit Radio), set up to transmit Rio+20 information, was shut down by the Brazilian Agência...
June 18, 2012
No Consensus Yet for Rio+20 Doc: Daily
The final stage of negotiations over the UN’s Rio+20 Outcome Document has ended without achieving a universally-agreed set of goals...
June 17, 2012