Water Resources

Water under pressure

A UN analysis sets out global water-management concerns ahead of Earth Summit.

Publication Date: 
15/03/2012
Natasha Gilbert
Nature
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7389
256-257
Tags:
Water Resources, Rio Summit, Brazil, Water Quality, Water Policy, Water Management, UNESCO, Water Demand, Agriculture, Industry, Groundwater, Water Pollution
Environment

The Rio declaration on environment and development: an assessment

In 1992 the historic UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED, popularly known as the Earth Summit) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil witnessed unprecedented political will and commitment among governments to make a paradigm shift to sustainable development. Acknowledging the twin crises of poverty and the environment UNCED concluded that the prevailing economic model was unsustainable.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2012
Chee Yoke Ling
Third World Network
Tags:
Environment, Development, Rio Summit, Sustainable Development, RIO 20, Multicorporations
Environment

100 countries back world environment agency

More than a hundred countries now support a French proposal to create a ‘World Environment Organisation’ at the upcoming 20th anniversary conference of the Rio Summit, France’s ecology minister said on Tuesday.

‘More than 100 countries have now associated themselves with the proposal,’ Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet said at a conference in Paris aimed at stimulating ideas for June 20-22 global gathering.

The idea is to beef up the UN Environment Programme, which critics say lacks clout and resources for dealing with the world’s worsening environmental crisis.

Publication Date: 
01/02/2012
New Age (Bangladesh)
Tags:
France, Environment, UNEP, Rio Summit, Economy
Climate Change

India opposes UN panel’s ‘back door’ for green caps

Report Also Breaches Firewall Between Rich & Poor. A high-profile panel of the United Nation Secretary General (UNSG) on Global Sustainability has recommended that the world adopt sustainable development targets. The move has been opposed by India and several other developing countries as creating a backdoor for caps on emissions and green targets, while breaching the firewall between developing and rich countries that is enshrined in the Rio declaration and the United Nation convention on climate change.

Publication Date: 
31/01/2012
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
India, Climate Change, Rio Summit, Brazil, Economy, Cap And Trade, UN, Fossil Fuels, Subsidies, RIO+20
Environment

Keeping track of our changing environment: from Rio to Rio+20 (1992-2012)

The environmental changes that have swept the planet over the last twenty years are spotlighted in a new compilation of statistical data by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), released in a report entitled "Keeping Track of our Changing Environment: From Rio to Rio+20". The report is produced as part of UNEP's "Global Environmental Outlook-5" (GEO -5) series, the UN's most authoritative assessment of the state, trends and outlook of the global environment.

Publication Date: 
01/11/2011
UNEP
Tags:
Environment, Population, Urbanisation, India, Global, Economy, Atmosphere, Climate Change, Forests, Drinking Water, Biodiversity, Natural Disasters, Governance, Agriculture, Energy, Fisheries, Industry, Transport, Rio Summit
Climate Change

PM in Pretoria for Ibsa Summit, to Focus on Economy

Eurozone crisis, UN reforms likely to top the agenda of fifth summit of India, Brazil and South Africa
The rapidly deteriorating global economic outlook, especially the near-crisis situation in the Eurozone, is likely to top the agenda of fifth summit of India, Brazil and South Africa beginning here on Tuesday. All three countries have been engaged with other global majors in recent weeks to ward off a spillover of the Greek crisis into an economic pandemic.

Publication Date: 
18/10/2011
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Economy, Global, Sustainable Development, UNFCCC, Brazil, India, South Africa, Rio Summit, Kyoto Protocol
Environment

Global vision for Rio+20 and beyond

The various mechanisms evolved through global negotiations to deal with shared environmental problems, such as climate change, fall short because they are not located within a larger debate on dealing with human well-being and instead focus only on limiting damage. The United Nations is best placed to support a common understanding on patterns of resource use that are in principle common for all by generating strategic knowledge, also leading to deepening coherence of the global agenda.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2011
Mukul Sanwal
Economic and Political Weekly
46
40
24-30
Tags:
Environment, Climate Change, Global Environmental Agreements, UN Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), International Cooperation, Carbon Dioxide, China, India, Economic Development, UNFCCC, Common Property Resources, Sustainable Development, Rio Summit, Knowledge
Sustainable Development

Sustainable development in India: stocktaking in the run up to Rio+20

This new MoEF report documents India’s evolving framework for sustainable development since the 1992 Earth Summit and assesses the achievements and the challenges that the country faces.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2011
Ministry of Environment and Forests
Tags:
Sustainable Development, India, Rio Summit, Environment, Agriculture, Urbanisation, Climate Change, Infrastructure Development, Economy, Disaster Management, Poverty, Urban Air Quality, Water Quality, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Joint Forest Management (JFM), Global Environmental Agreements, Biodiversity, RIO+20
Environment

The road to Rio+20: for a development-led green economy

UNCTAD has published this first in a series of volumes focusing on issues pertinent to "green" economic growth, in run-up to 2012 global conference on green economy, two decades after 1992 Rio "Earth Summit".

Publication Date: 
02/03/2011
UNCTAD
Tags:
Sustainable Development, Environment, Low Carbon Economy, Global, India, Climate Change, Globalisation, Renewable Energy, Agriculture, Rio Summit, Economy
Environment

Beyond Rio+20: governance for a green economy

As an intellectual contribution to the preparations for the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, a.k.a. Rio +20), Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future convened a task force of experts to discuss the role of institutions in the actualization of a green economy in the context of sustainable development.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2011
Boston University
Tags:
Sustainable Development, Environment, Low Carbon Economy, Governance, India, Global, Climate Change, Global Environmental Agreements, Energy, Forests, Private Sector, Rio Summit, Economy

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