What is at stake at Rio+20
This edition of the WRM bulletin is being released as the Rio+20 People’s Summit is beginning in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In May, during a meeting of the International Coordination (Read More)
OUR VIEWPOINT
RÍO+20 CONFERENCE: THE FUTURE WE DO NOT WANT
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From Rio to Rio: The path they have stolen from us
In just a few days, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, will begin in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rio+20 is taking place in the same city, 20 (Read More)
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Sustainable Energy for All – or another scheme to increase energy corporation profits?
Sustainable Energy for All (SEFA) is an initiative launched by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in October 2011 and which has been gaining political momentum in the run-up to Rio+20. Ban (Read More)
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The Green Economy according to FAO: More “green deserts”
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is hosting a Rio+20 side event on June 18, called “Forests: The heart of a green economy”. FAO states that (Read More)
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The Big Greenwash Circus
At the end of this month the world’s nations, businesses and civil society will gather in Rio de Janeiro for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development. They accept the seemingly (Read More)
PEOPLE IN ACTION
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The Peoples Summit in Rio: Integration and convergence of popular struggles
In the negotiating process leading up to the Rio+20 conference some rich-country governments and influential business groups have sought to impose a regression from the principles agreed at the 1992 (Read More)
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Via Campesina confronts the advance of capitalism: Rio+20 and beyond
At 20 years of the “Earth Summit”, the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development, La Via Campesina sees not only that the real causes of environmental, economic, and (Read More)
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Against the corporate capture of Rio+20
In April we shared the call of a number of international civil society organizations and social movements to social organizations to sign on a statement and join the campaign to (Read More)
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Asian movements and organizations reject the “Green Economy”
Movements and organizations from Asia have made a declaration rejecting the “Green Economy” being proposed by global institutions and now the subject of debate in the Rio+20 process, for several (Read More)
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Joint publication on Green Economy
“Economía verde. El asalto final a los bienes comunes” (Green Economy: The final assault on the commons), only in Spanish, is a “copyright-free” publication jointly produced by GRAIN, Alianza Biodiversidad, (Read More)
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Convergence of movements’ communication media at the Peoples Summit in Rio+20
From Rio de Janeiro, the convergence of social movement’s communication media, through Radio Mundo Real, brings us the Peoples Summit with live programming, news, interviews, testimonies, stories, special reports, videos, (Read More)
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Video on REDD
“The Story of REDD: a real solution to deforestation?” available athttp://www.fern.org/node/5110 is a film produced by FERN. The video deals with one of the most controversial issues in the climate change (Read More)
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Video on Financialization of Nature
Produced by La Antena and AttacTV, the short animated film deals with the takeover of nature by financial markets and the real alternatives coming up from the civil society. The (Read More)