Recovering our Future.
From June 20- 22, 2012, the governments of the world will meet in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to commemorate the 20 years since the “Earth Summit”, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) which established for the first time a global agenda for "sustainable development". Social movements from around the world are organizing a Peoples’ Summit parallel to the official meeting, where they will denounce the commodification of nature in the so-called "Green Economy" and will promote alternatives to the advance of capital over natural resources, energy and agriculture.
3 May 2012 | Interviews | Peoples’ Summit in Rio+20
Tomorrow, Friday 4 May, ends the negotiation round called 'Zero Draft', the base document analyzed as part of the inter-governmental process in the lead-up to the Rio+20 Summit, to be held in Brazil. Read more
3 May 2012 | Interviews | 5th National Seeds Festival MPA-Brazil | Peoples’ Summit in Rio+20
Threats, deceit, pressure and property speculation are the foundations on which one of the country's wealthiest men, Eike Batista, will build the megaproject Puerto do Acu. Read more
30 April 2012 | Interviews | Peoples’ Summit in Rio+20
Environmental federation Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) has been working hard within the Coordinating group of the Peoples' Summit to be held in parallel to the UN Summit on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in order to agree on common items in the social movements agenda. Read more
23 April 2012 | Interviews | Peoples’ Summit in Rio+20
Activist Soledad Vogliano, of the Network for a GMO Free Latin America (RALLT), said that agriculture will be one of the key issues at the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development to be held in June in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (known as Rio+20). Read more
19 April 2012 | Interviews | Peoples’ Summit in Rio+20
The United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development, to be held in June in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will focus on trade and commodification of nature, says Silvia Ribeiro, of ETC Group. Read more
29 March 2012 | Chronicles | Peoples’ Summit in Rio+20 | 3rd Special Conference for Food Sovereignty | Land grabbing
On Thursday 29th, the delegation of Social Movements will read a summary of the Declaration after the 3rd Special Conference for Food Sovereignty. The declaration strongly reaffirms Food Sovereignty as a real solution to the food, climate and human rights crises that are affecting the region and the world. Read more
20 March 2012 | Interviews | Peoples’ Summit in Rio+20 | Alternative World Water Forum
The Alternative World Water Forum started on Wednesday in Marseille, France, and gathered social movements and organizations from different parts of the world who work in defense of water as a fundamental human right. Read more
7 March 2012 | Interviews | Peoples’ Summit in Rio+20
The World UN Summit on Sustainable Development to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will serve to “legitimize economic development” policies, which “has been the main aim since Eco 92 around the idea of sustainable development”, warned the president of the Uruguayan Network of Environmentalists NGOs, Miguel Piñeyro. Read more
6 March 2012 | Interviews | Peoples’ Summit in Rio+20
The First National Meeting of the Civil Society took place on Saturday, in Montevideo, capital city of Uruguay, in the preparatory process towards the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development which will take place in June, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Read more
6 March 2012 | News | Peoples’ Summit in Rio+20 | 3rd Special Conference for Food Sovereignty | Land grabbing
Social movements and organizations of Latin America and the Caribbean will meet in Buenos Aires from March 22-25 for the 3rd Special Conference for Food Sovereignty, which will take place before the 31st Regional Conference of the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations). Read more
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