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With 2013 being an election year, a change of government in Australia might mean a change in climate policy as well.
Read post →Despite the continental cultural differences and geographic distance, some socioeconomic and historical facts links Brazil to Qatar. And there is not just the Brazilian players who go to the Arab country to show their football. Petroleum and UN Conferences also unites them.
Read post →Video interview to Kumi Naidoo, Greenpeace Int. Executive Director, on the latest work of his organization and what to expect about COP18 in Doha.
Read post →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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Rio+20 offered an opportunity for governments to acknowledge science and recognize the role of other stakeholders. The outcomes of the conference are however disappointing in both respects. Will governments seize upcoming opportunities for more participatory and better informed decision-making?
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During a Rio+20 side event on Intergenerational Dialogue, I met a gent: Brazilian; visibly in his late sixties: there were…
Read post →UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s words, “When I say make some noise, I mean raise your voices. Demand real action.” are…
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If the Rio+20 taught us a lesson, it was: we must keep fighting! Whatever we have accomplished, it is because someone, somewhere and sometime in the past fought for it.
Read post →A poem to the RiO+20 negotiators
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Why I decided that it was time for me to walk out of the Rio Plus 20 conference, and why I believe that this conference is a fraud.
Read post →Born in an island in the midst of one of the most brutal civil wars in history, with my disciplinarian…
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