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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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June 04 2012
Rich nations backtracking as Rio Summit nears
The developed countries are attempting to remove or dilute the
principles agreed to in Rio 20 years ago, and to backtrack on ...
By Martin Khor ◾ Third World Network
June 03 2012
Ten theses of a critique of the Green Economy
The strict decoupling of economic growth and environmental
destruction is not possible under capitalism.
By Federal Coordination of Internationalismus
June 03 2012
Bio-economy versus Biodiversity
The bio-economy proposal is not about protecting the environment: it
is about promoting the economy including loss of biodiversity ...
By Global Forest Coalition
June 03 2012
The Green economy: a new stage of capitalist
expansion
What is really being sought in this green corporative economy is to
deepen the commodification, privatization, and financialization ...
By Campaign No to the Green economy ◾ Thematic Social Forum
June 02 2012
Green China: Chinese insights on environment
and development
The global interconnections between energy, climate change, and land
and water use mean that everyone has an interest in seeing ...
By International Institute for Environment and Development
May 23 2012
State of the World’s Cities. Bridging the urban
divide
The world is inexorably becoming urban. By 2030, developping
regions, including Asia and Africa, will have more people living ...
By UN Habitat
May 23 2012
What is at stake at Rio+20
We struggle for a radical change of the current model of production
and consumption, strengthening our right to expand with ...
By Brazilian Civil Society Facilitating Committee for Rio+20
May 23 2012
Time for a sustainable economic paradigm
We need nothing less now than a new sustainability-based economic
paradigm, with new progress measures, accounting systems ...
By Royal Government of Bhutan
May 18 2012
A new global architecture for sustainable
development
There are four main items to develop the summit’s outcome document
in terms of the Institutional Framework for ...
By Martin Khor
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