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What can we learn from Syria and London that might help the push for a solar-thermal plant in Port Augusta
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Indigenous activists show Julia Gillard the true meaning of knowledge sharing
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Afin de remettre l’intérêt des générations futures au coeur du développement durable, de nombreux groupes ont demandé à Rio l’établissement d’un ombudperson pour les générations futures. Malgré le rejet de cette proposition, reste t-il encore quelque chose à faire après Rio?
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Young people unite in protest against the Rio+20 declaration
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A new Sustainable Development pathway has just been created. Here’s the play by play of what happened
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Indigenous Peoples are being excluded from our common future, but remain resistant and offer an alternative sustainable development declaration
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The need to consider the interest of future generations when taking decisions has been recognized as a principle of sustainable development over the past decades. RioPlus20 offers now a key opportunity to turn this principle into practice. However, a few countries threatened to prevent this from happening.
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To fasten the pace of the discussions, Brazil decided to remove many proposals from the draft text, not considering whether those elements would have contributed to the solution…
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Australia is playing a strong role mediating negotiations on Oceans. But is it the right tole to play?
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A more personal note to explain why I have decided to quit the UN negotiations in Rio for a while and explore other venues to promote governance solutions for sustainability, hoping to find among city councilors or judges some of those top-down approaches that I have been searching for over the past years.
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Rio Plus 20 is more than just a three-day summit. It is rather a long process during which every step is important. Small overview of these key steps (explained in the context of a sport-intense summer).
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