MAGAZINE: Highlighting the Voices of Women

kristyGlobal Citizen, The Power of Yin

Taking Grassroots Women’s Voices to Rio+20 EMAGAZINE | JUNE 2012 This week, as world leaders convene in Rio de Janeiro to decide a viable future for our children and the planet, we’re cranking up the volume on the often-unheard voices of grassroots women on the front lines of a growing …

New Arctic Forests Pose Climate Change Problems

kristyEarth Systems Science

WHAT WE’RE FOLLOWING New Arctic Forests Pose Climate Change Problems Bringing forests back has long been though to help combat climate change. Trees absorb the most common greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, helping to pull the heat-trapping gas from the atmosphere, the logic goes. This is why forests are usually expected …

Rio + 20: Forum on Social Entrepreneurship in the New Economy

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The event is open to the public. The Forum on Social Entrepreneurship in the New Economy will be held in tandem with the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). The Forum will generate ideas and practical next steps for sustainability and the emerging new economy. The Forum is organized …

EM Special: Rio + 20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development

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The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) is being organized in pursuance of General Assembly Resolution 64/236 (A/RES/64/236). The Conference will take place in Brazil on 20-22 June 2012 to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), in Rio de Janeiro, …

Urgent Action on Energy Needed For Both Development and Environment

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Urgent Action on Energy Needed For Both Development and Environment Timothy E. Wirth, President, United Nations Foundation, and Member of UN Secretary-General’s High-level Group on Sustainable Energy for All – Urgent Action on Energy Needed For Both Development and Environment For_humanity to thrive and for the planet to support it, …

A Greener Footprint for Industry

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A report from UNIDO – United Nations Industrial Development Organization As the prime manufacturer of the goods and services societies consume, industry has a critical role to play. And one can only conclude that industry’s production systems are fundamentally unsustainable: they do not allow the needs of present generations to …

RI-TV Special: “The honeymoon is over,” says Wolfgang Engshuber, Chair, UN PRI

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November 24th, 2011 RI-TV Alert: In the second RI-TV free-to-air interview special recorded at ESG Europe 2011, Wolfgang Engshuber, Chair of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) summarizes the development of the organisation over the last six years saying: “The honeymoon is over” and describes its desired …

Invitation to the Media: UN Global Roundtable on markets stability and sustainable finance

kristyReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News, Sustainability News

MEDIA ADVISORY For immediate release Washington D.C./Geneva, 11 October 2011 – With the drive for economic recovery topping the US and global political agenda, the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) is organizing a landmark summit on financial sustainability and market stability in Washington, D.C. The 2011 Global …