Fighting for a Real Green Economy
Dear Friends, As you may know, the Rio +20 Zero Draft document was released this week and this will be the starting point for the negotiations at the upcoming Earth Summit. It is a very general...
View ArticleUPDATE: Bolivia’s proposals for Rio+20
Bolivia has develop a 56-point program for the Rio+20 summit this coming June. Notable among their proposals: Poverty/inequality 1. In this century, the central challenges of sustainable development...
View ArticleComing Soon to Rio+20!
The Blue Planet Project will participate in the “Towards People’s Summit of Rio+20” in Porto Alegre, Brazil January 24-29, 2012 with other civil society organizations and social and popular movements...
View ArticleVIEW: World Bank uses ‘green economy’ to promote more dams, says...
Peter Bosshard, policy director at International Rivers, writes, “The draft document for the Rio+20 summit, which governments are currently discussing in New York, is devoid of substance and ambition....
View ArticleUPDATE: Their green economy = water privatization, commodification
I am in Porto Alegre, Brasil with Blue Planet Project organizer Anil Naidoo for a Thematic Social Forum (titled ‘Capitalist Crisis, Social and Environmental Justice’), which is a primary civil society...
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