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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
Initiatives > Europe @en Ver todos >
![Energy Cities Annual Rendez-vous Energy Cities Annual Rendez-vous](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6795009714_c2ebfc26e4_bis-160x110.jpg)
March 07 2012
Energy Cities Annual Rendez-vous
Thirty Mayors from 30 different countries will send out a strong
signal : their vision synthesized in a set of 30 strategies for ...
By Energy Cities
![Proposals and struggles for living well on our Planet Los habitantes hacia la Cumbre de los Pueblos. Propuestas y luchas para habitar bien nuestro planeta](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/5691989631_bd7660de67_bis2-160x110.jpg)
February 15 2012
Proposals and struggles for living well on our
Planet
The different struggles by inhabitant organizations are showing the
possibility of finding appropriate and sustainable solutions to ...
By International Alliance of Inhabitants
![Irene sails off Plymouth destined for Rio in advance of the Earth Summit Irene sails off Plymouth destined for Rio in advance of the Earth Summit](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Guillaume_LE_GRAND_et_Diana_MESA_24_bis-160x110.jpg)
February 12 2012
Irene sails off Plymouth destined for Rio in
advance of the Earth Summit
Irene is also offering to ship cargo from her ports of call in
Europe to Rio de Janeiro; an excellent opportunity given the ...
By TransOceanic Wind Transport
![Go sustainable, be responsible! European civil society on the road to Rio+20 Go sustainable, be responsible! European civil society on the road to Rio+20](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/preparing_rio20027-extra_large_bis-160x110.jpg)
January 30 2012
Go sustainable, be responsible! European civil
society on the road to Rio+20
The EESC conference will focus on the green economy as a means to
enhance sustainable development within the limits of ...
By European Economic and Social Commitee
Proposals > Europe @en Ver todos >
![Territories: paradigm shifts that need to be made for the transition Territoire: les ruptures nécessaires pour la transition](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/india1_bis-160x110.jpg)
January 22 2012
Territories: paradigm shifts that need to be
made for the transition
Territories are objectively called to play a decisive role in
designing and conducting the necessary transition.
By Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation for Human Progress ◾ French Collective Rio+20 ◾ Pierre Calame
![Governance: paradigm shifts that need to be made for the transition Gouvernance: les ruptures nécessaires pour la transition](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/471524334_ee03228d89_bis-160x110.jpg)
January 22 2012
Governance: paradigm shifts that need to be
made for the transition
In societies in full transformation as is the case for us, we need
to adopt a more dynamic point of view on governance.
By Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation for Human Progress ◾ French Collective Rio+20 ◾ Pierre Calame
![Ethics: paradigm shifts that need to be made for the transition Ethique : les ruptures nécessaires pour la transition](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/5481311286_f06b9af93e_bis-160x110.jpg)
January 21 2012
Ethics: paradigm shifts that need to be made
for the transition
As peoples of the Earth, we need to agree on a number of common
principles for its management. Our religious and ...
By Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation for Human Progress ◾ French Collective Rio+20 ◾ Pierre Calame
![Economy: paradigm shifts that need to be made for the transition Les ruptures nécessaires pour la transition](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/pierrot1-160x110.jpg)
January 21 2012
Economy: paradigm shifts that need to be made
for the transition
Only a change in concept is able to stress the necessary shifts. The
word "economy" is too closely associated with what is being ...
By Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation for Human Progress ◾ French Collective Rio+20 ◾ Pierre Calame
Documents > Europe @en Ver todos >
![Anticapitalism and environmentalism as a political alternative Anticapitalism and environmentalism as a political alternative](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/3742812365_ff203dfc52_bis-160x110.jpg)
November 30 2011
Anticapitalism and environmentalism as a
political alternative
We cannot analyse the global ecological crisis separately from the
crisis in which we are immersed or the critique of the ...
By Esther Vivas
![Development without Carbon: Climate and the Global Economy through the 21st Century Development without Carbon: Climate and the Global Economy through the 21st Century](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/6246337801_12d66a1112_bis-160x110.jpg)
November 22 2011
Development without Carbon: Climate and the
Global Economy through the 21st Century
Economic development and the eradication of energy poverty are
increasingly seen as key components in a comprehensive strategy ...
By Elizabeth A. Stanton ◾ Stockholm Environment Institute
![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
Eventos > Europe @en Ver todos >
March 01 2012
Alternative World Water Forum
The objective of the Alternative World Water Forum (AWWF) – in
French, the Forum Alternatif Mondial de l’Eau (FAME) – is to ...
By Alternative World Water Forum
February 03 2012
Go sustainable, be responsible! European civil
society on the road to Rio+20
The EESC conference will focus on the green economy as a means to
enhance sustainable development within the limits of ...
By European Economic and Social Commitee
January 22 2012
“Rising Powers” and the Future of Global
Governance
The global crisis poses a challenge to the continued global hegemony
of the West and its neoliberal mode of capitalism.
By Research Network on Global Governance and the Emerging Global South ◾ University of Sussex
December 12 2011
European Sustainability Leaders, Champions and
Front Runners preparing Rio+20
We will focus on how to reinforce the ‘web of solidarity and social
innovation’ now in place, and will address actions launched ...
By European Economic and Social Commitee