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- 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
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![Contesting a “just transition to a low carbon economy” Contesting a ‘just transition to a low carbon economy’](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/4370352638_1237b3f906_bis-160x110.jpg)
November 17 2011
Contesting a “just transition to a low carbon
economy”
Obviously, the transition to a low carbon or green economy has
massive implications for labour. Historically, the labour ...
By Jacklyn Cock
![How to Build a Sustainable World: Practical Guidelines to Change How We Live and Work How to Build a Sustainable World: Practical Guidelines to Change How We Live and Work](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/4134011104_73817804ab_bis-160x110.jpg)
November 15 2011
How to Build a Sustainable World: Practical
Guidelines to Change How We Live and Work
It is now up to our political leadership to back up promises and
rhetoric about creating green jobs. If we actively pursue ...
By Glenn Ashton ◾ South African Civil Society Information Service
![The Green Growth Agenda: Is This the New Hope? The Green Growth Agenda: Is This the New Hope?](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/6327697329_b965d458a6_bis-160x110.jpg)
November 15 2011
The Green Growth Agenda: Is This the New Hope?
It’s clear that the focus on greening the economy led by a
clean-tech boom only continues to support the prevailing ...
By Saliem Fakir
![Rio 2012: From Earth Summit to Earth Grab? Río 2012: ¿Cumbre de la Tierra o despojo global?](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/2894245423_d12afd5fc8-160x110.jpg)
November 14 2011
Rio 2012: From Earth Summit to Earth Grab?
At Rio+20 governments can create a more responsive and
representative Multilateral Environmental Network … or enthrone ...
By ETC Group
![Environmental justice: Putting the poor first Environmental justice: Putting the poor first](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/4391372009_faa450ac54_b-e1320916316170-160x110.jpg)
November 10 2011
Environmental justice: Putting the poor first
Behind the public face of the climate action campaigns there is a
deep malaise and debate within civil society circles about ...
By Brian K. Murphy
![Now is the Time! Why “Rio+20” must succeed Now is the time: why Rio+20 must succeed](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Plataforma7Banner700-e1318190908594-160x110.jpg)
October 09 2011
Now is the Time! Why “Rio+20” must succeed
Too many opportunities have since been missed, too many commitments
failed to be honored. Poverty remains a persistent challenge, ...
By German Development Institute
![Rio+20: Let us not miss out on this one! Rio+20: não deixemos passar a hora!](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/4276667314_669d481694_o-160x110.jpg)
September 15 2011
Rio+20: Let us not miss out on this one!
Let us turn Rio 2012 into a time for global indignation and citizen
change. We need to assert our citizen power, deeply-rooted in ...
By Brazilian Institute of Social and Economic Analyses (Ibase) ◾ Cândido Grzybowski
![The Green Economy, Poverty and the Global Inequality The Green Economy, Poverty and the Global Inequality](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4293716030_9bb59d5867_z-160x110.jpg)
July 23 2011
The Green Economy, Poverty and the Global
Inequality
The contemporary crisis’s of global capitalism are however only the
most acute in the last eighty years. Whilst originating in the ...
By Rasigan Maharajh