- InformationHere you can find the documents for debate allowing us to advance on the reflections and issues of Rio+20. They can be concept papel, analysis, notes and reports.
Events December 2024 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 All events - Main Themes
- Ethical and philosophical fundamentals: subjectivity, domination, and emancipation
- Human rights, peoples, territories, and defense of Mother Earth
- Political subjects, the architecture of power, and democracy
- Production, distribution and consumption, access to wealth, common goods, and economies in transition
Documents
May 18 2012
“The future we want” is still bracketed
The focus of some actors on preserving short term and narrow
interests and on trying to dismantle the core pillars of the ...
By Social Watch ◾ Third World Network
May 06 2012
United Nations “seized by corporate power”
Civil society organizations all over the world are warning against
the “growing influence of major corporations and business ...
By Social Watch
May 04 2012
State of the Planet Declaration
Consensus is growing that we have driven the planet into a new
epoch, the Anthropocene, in which many Earth-system processes ...
By Earth system science partnership ◾ International council for science
May 03 2012
The Commons at the Core of our Next Economic
Models?
The conceptual framework of a commons based economic model would
enable a series of narratives anchored in ...
By Helene Finidori
May 02 2012
World Happiness Report
These analisis put a clear limit on the extent to which rich
countries can become happier through the simple device of ...
By Jeffrey Sachs ◾ John Helliwell ◾ Richard Layard ◾ the Earth Institute
April 25 2012
Planning for the Rio+20 Conference: Enter the
Commons?
It is impossible to think of commoning without thinking about a
social subject, a “community.” It is therefore easiest to ...
By David Bollier
April 18 2012
Green New Deal or Globalisation Lite?
The word ‘deal’ gives the lie to new, for these are mostly trade-off
packages designed to hold together the narrow political arena ...
By Ariel Salleh
April 18 2012
Rio+20 and the Green Economy: Technocrats,
Meta-industrials, WSF and Occupy
It is true that the growth-driven private sector is responsible for
the global ecological crisis, but it is not true that ...
By Ariel Salleh
April 05 2012
It’s the time of the Rights of Mother Earth
It is incredible that it is easier to imagine the destruction of
nature than to dream about overthrowing capitalism.
By Pablo Solón
March 24 2012
Rio+20: Why we need a People’s Summit – at UN
Deleting our Rights, Bracketing our Future
We have been witnessing a systematic attempt by some powerful states
to weaken, or “bracket” nearly all references to human ...
By IBON International ◾ Paul Quintos