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To The Swedish Government and all participants at the Rio +20 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012. From the Gothenburg Conference: Celebrate! Resist! Transform! for environmental justice and just transition 18th to 20th of May 2012 A JUST TRANSITION NOW – NO...
The world has to reinvent growth as it is costing it the Earth June 5, the World Environment Day, is meant to celebrate the idea of the environment and put it into practice. It is a day to take stock of where we stand and where we should be headed in future. The theme...
Indigenous Peoples will gather in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during June for Rio+20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, June 13 --22, 2012. In the struggle to uphold the Rights of Mother Earth, Bolivia warns of the commercialized "green economy" that seeks to...
The European Environment Agency recently released a report on progress towards the “green economy” in Europe. The EEA defines the “green economy” as one in which “the environmental, economic and social policies and innovations enable society to use resources...
We, representatives of organizations from more than 15 countries in Africa comprised of small farmers, youth groups, fisherfolk, indigenous peoples, women, labour, environmentalists, faith-based organizations, local authorities and NGOs from African Civil Society met...
At the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, it appeared that a global consensus had been reached that there was an inevitable connection between social justice, environmental protection and economic security. Sustainability was the watchword and there seemed...
I. The 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro 1992: sustainable development In 1983, when the Earth’s ecological crisis was becoming ever more apparent, the United Nations General Assembly decided to create an international commission (the World Commission on Environment...
Correction (February 3, 2010)--Passage on Himalayan glaciers in paragraph 5 of article originally published January 2010. This article was written for presentation at the Workshop on Marxist Theory and Practice in the World Today, Ho Chi Minh Academy of Politics and...
"This discussion has changed my mind about homosexuality. Now I understand what my Lesbian friend went through. When she graduated from medical school in Cuba, she cried. She told me that she could live her life the way she wanted to when she was in Cuba. But now...