A group of 30 journalists that includes Fellows, editors, trainers and staff from 20 countries will report on the negotiations of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as the Rio+20 Summit, taking place in Brazil in June, 2012. Over 10 days, the journalists will participate in capacity-building activities focused on the main themes of the international meeting, have contact with sources of government, civil society and multilateral organizations, and provide locally relevant reporting to audiences back home.
Where Science Meets Politics
Peter Bjerregaard - 05-Dec-2012
By Peter Bjerregaard In Italy six seismologists have just been convicted of manslaughter for failing to predict a 2009 earthquake that killed 309 people in the Italian city L'Aquila. The verdict is interesting for several reasons. It presupposes that scientists have the ability not only to look through the Earth's crust but to look into the future. But what would happen if a group of scientists -- for example the UN Climate Panel -- actually gave unambiguous forecasts of impending catastrophes...
The Surui: Getting Paid to Protect Forests
Bobby Bascomb - 17-Sep-2012
The Surui, an indigenous tribe in the Brazilian Amazon, is working with Google Earth to make detailed maps of their forest. The tribe wants to know how many trees they have and how much they grow from year to year so they can get compensated for carbon sequestration on the voluntary carbon market.
Predsednik Srbije Tomislav Nikolic sa samita Rio+20
Sanja Jovanovic - 22-Aug-2012
Predsednik Srbije Tomislav Nikolic izjavio je drugog dana konferencije Rio+20 da prisustvom na Konferenciji Srbija podrzava napore koji se cine u svetu, kao i da Srbija zeli da ulozi u ocuvanje svojih resursa, vodu, vazduh i zemlju: Tomislav Nikolic Predsednik Srbije Tomislav Nikolic iskoristio je posetu Brazilu da se sastane sa predstavnicima Evropske Unije, Rusije, Vijetnama, zemljama Latinske Amerike a u petak prepodne sastaje se sa predstavnicima SAD-a. www.pressanya.com
Serbian delegates on expectations for Rio+20
Sanja Jovanovic - 22-Aug-2012
On the first day of official negotiations at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCED), also known as Rio +20 or Earth Summit, the Serbian delegation has explained their expectations on the outcome of the conference. Miroslav Tadic, head of international relations at the Ministry of Environment says: "The outcome of the summit is a document called, “Future we want ", which frames and provides guidance for the further development of policies for sustainable development on both global...
Jan Dusik of UNEP Speaks
Sanja Jovanovic - 17-Jul-2012
Exclusive for Pressanya , PresSanya sat down with Jan Dusik, executive director of United Nations Environmental Programme(UNEP) regional office in Europe, and spoke about his observations on Rio+20. Mr. Dusik, did Rio+20 meet your expectations? I think there are many important outcomes of the conference, both in the outcome document and then the result that still needs to be confirmed, but also in terms of the parallel events that are taking place, the bilateral meetings, and the...
Cumbre Río+20: Decisiones con sabor a poco
Giovanny Vera Stephanes - 02-Jul-2012
Por Giovanny Vera S. para Reporte Energía La Cumbre Río+20, una de las reuniones mundiales más importantes sobre desarrollo sostenible, concluye con una sensación de frustración por la falta de resultados concretos. Para la ONU y algunos gobernantes, es un paso inicial y no el final. La Conferencia de Naciones Unidas sobre Desarrollo Sustentable, llamada también Río+20, culminó el viernes 22 pasado, con la aprobación del documento “El futuro que queremos”, adoptado por cerca de 191 países...
Rio+20 in the eyes of journalists
Hongxiang Huang - 02-Jul-2012
After Copenhagen and so on, people are more and more disappointed at mega climage talks and therefore less and less interested in them. In eyes of international journalists, Rio+20 is not a easy place to discover good stories, knowing that there is not going to be breakthrough. But this itself is a good story: the lack of attention is calling for attention. Published on Southern Weekly: Rio+20 in the eyes of journalists “里约，太无聊了” 世界记者眼中的里约峰会 □南方周末特约撰稿 黄泓翔 发自巴西里约 “当年人们对哥本哈根气候大会期望非常高，...
Rio+20: Cities bring sustainability to sub-national level
Lidija Grozdanic - 28-Jun-2012
Few urban settlements outside the South American continent exhibit such visible thirst for space as Brazil’s Cidade Meravilhosa. The vortex of mixtures and coexisting extremes, permeating all aspects of Rio de Janeiro’s life, creates an urban continuity glued together by a single unifying force – the desire to live in the city. Clinging to steep hill slopes, burdened by poverty and low infrastructure, informal settlements are pulsating tentacles of the urbanscape, reminding the Rio...
Não o fim, mas um novo começo
Maristela Crispim - 27-Jun-2012
Maristela Crispim, Diário do Nordeste Escrever sobre um evento do tamanho da Conferência das Nações Unidas sobre o Desenvolvimento Sustentável (Rio+20) sempre será uma missão parcial. Impossível dar conta de tudo com um público estimado entre 30 e 50 mil pessoas, delegações de 193 países (114 líderes) e, principalmente, aproximadamente seis mil eventos ao longo de nove dias, alguns paralelos. Foi a partir de recortes que se cobriu a Conferência. Poucos resistiram à diversidade de...
Ilhas Cagarras se destacam na paisagem da Praia de Ipanema
Maristela Crispim - 27-Jun-2012
Por Maristela Crispim, Diário do Nordeste Manasi da Silva Rebouças, de 23 anos, nasceu no Ceará, mais precisamente no Pontal do Maceió, uma vila de pescadores no município de Fortim, litoral leste, a 132 quilômetros de Fortaleza. Mas, há pouco mais de um ano, decidiu seguir o destino do pai, e trocou as tépidas águas da sua terra natal pelo mar frio do Rio de Janeiro. Há oito meses, porém, a vida do jovem pescador mudou quando ele passou a integrar um projeto ambiental de conservação do...
México en Río+20
Solange Marquez Espinoza - 26-Jun-2012
Río de Janeiro, 20 de junio. Por Solange Marquez. La oportunidad histórica de poner a salvo al planeta ante la crisis ambiental que vive se ha desmoronado en las últimas horas en Rio de Janeiro al cerrarse las negociaciones del acuerdo final que será entregado a los jefes de Estado y de Gobierno asistentes a la Conferencia de Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo Sustentable.Las negociaciones sobre dos ejes que habían logrado el apoyo de una gran mayoría de países hicieron agua cuando los...
Considera México que faltó ambición en Río+20
Solange Marquez Espinoza - 26-Jun-2012
Felipe Calderón cancela su participación. Juan Elvira, Secretario de Medio Ambiente, participará en nombre de México.Río de Janeiro, 21 de junio. Por Solange Márquez. Luego de que el lunes pasado se terminaran las negociaciones sobre la declaración final de la Conferencia de Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente, Brasil tomó la decisión de cerrar la discusión de todos los temas por lo que aquellos en los que hubiera debate aún ya no podrían ser abordados ni en las reuniones ministeriales (con...
The Sustainability of “Feminine” Thinking : Women Leaders' Summit on the Future Women Want
Lidija Grozdanic - 25-Jun-2012
Prominent women leaders, gathered at the Rio+20 side event on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, have branded the predominant women empowerment mechanisms, operating mainly through aid programs, as anachronistic. Refusing to be seen as yet another vulnerable group, women insist on being part of the decision-making process. The question of female participation in sustainable decision making, defined by geopolitical circumstances, but universal in the lack of cohesive framework...
Mary Robinson: “What do celibate men know about the lives, health and the decisions of poor women?”
Aoife O'Grady - 25-Jun-2012
In an interview with Brazilian paper 'O Globo', former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, has criticised the Vatican's stance on the reproductive rights of women, asking the question “What do celibate men know about the lives, health and the decisions of poor women?”. Ms. Robinson was referring to the Vatican's alleged influence in the removal of reference to women's reproductive rights from the outcome document at Rio+20, the UN conference on sustainable development which...
Sono profundo e a vitória da diplomacia
Lara Corrêa Ely - 25-Jun-2012
Os discursos mais esperados da Conferência Rio+20 _ os derradeiros _ foram tão desmotivantes que nem os próprios debatedores tiveram ânimo para assistí-los. Durante a reunião final entre os chefes de Estado, por volta das 20h de sexta-feira, um representante asiático cochilou enquanto seu colega falava sobre o nosso futuro comum. O assunto estava tão bom que deu até sono.Após o término da sonolenta conversa, com o documento em mãos, as discussões travadas na Rio+20 saem do nível de quem decide...
Rio + 20 The Earth Summit Revisited
Bobby Bascomb - 23-Jun-2012
In 1992 officials from countries around the world gathered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the Earth Summit to tackle the biggest environmental issues of the day. Twenty years later, many of the same challenges still remain. Negotiators and delegates made some incremental progress at Rio +20 but much of the real action around the world is happening at the community level.
