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Health has secured its place as one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. But without clear mechanisms to report, finance or engage other sectors, could more end up as less?
Next year will be critical in environmental diplomacy. World governments will be negotiating important global agreements in two areas that will have a major impact on our well-being in coming decades…
On the wall along the massive entrance hall to the Rio+20 Sustainable Development conference venue, there was a painting of an African landscape with the simple words “Keep the oil in the soil and the…
Rio provided the ideal backdrop for the Rio+20 “earth summit” – with the jungle at its backdoor, nestled among magnificent jagged mountaintops, bordered by kilometres of white sandy Atlantic beaches, and…
The Rio+20 summit has raised a number of difficult questions about law and technology: what is the relationship between intellectual property and the environment? What role does intellectual property play…
The secretary-general of the United Nations’ (first) Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Maurice Strong, famously declared that if our planet is to remain a hospitable and sustainable home for the human species…
The recent news out of the RIO+20 summit is dire. No collective pre-agreement, no institutional change, no investment. The difference between RIO+20 and Kyoto was that at least Kyoto created an agreement…
Global sustainability conferences no longer fulfil a useful purpose, considering the existing dense institutional framework. We know what the problems are and need no further agenda setting. We need action…
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), could have brought us closer to a strengthened earth system governance. Closer towards a global, effective architecture for governance…
Yesterday, Nick Rowley looked at the history of sustainability agreements and why we’ve reached the impasse of Rio+20. Today he suggests a different approach. Back in November 2005, your perspective on…
Twenty years ago in a clamour of global public and media interest, representatives of all UN member states gathered in Rio de Janeiro to take part in the first Earth Summit. Later this week, the Rio+20…
Over the weekend, local leaders from around the world gathered together in Belo Horizonte, an hour’s flight from Rio de Janeiro at the ICLEI World Congress. The aim was to galvanise their case for a decade…
In June 2012 around 40,000 participants are expected to attend one of the most important environmental gatherings in a generation - Rio+20. A draft agenda has been released, bearing the slogan “The Future…
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Senior Lecturer in Practice, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor in Intellectual Property and Innovation Law, Queensland University of Technology
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Leader – Climate Change Mitigation Research, Centre for International Forestry Research
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Director, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Associate Professor & Director, Health and Sustainability Unit, Boden Institute for Obesity, University of Sydney
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Emeritus Professor of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Canberra
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Research Professor, Fridtjof Nansen Institute
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Executive Director, Earth System Governance Project, Lund University
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Emeritus Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Director Monash Sustainability Institute, Monash University
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Chair, Monash Sustainable Development Institute & ClimateWorks Australia, Monash University
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Sustainable Development Solutions Network Manager, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Associate Professor of Global Health Systems, The University of Queensland
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Professor - Industrial ecology and climate change mitigation, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)
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Agente de transfert de connaissances pour le Centre de recherche sur la boréalie (CREB), Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)
