22 June 2012 - Two roundtables convened to consider the theme "looking at the way forward in implementing the expected outcomes of the Conference." Among the suggestions offered by Heads of State and ...

Sha Zukang is the Secretary-General for the Rio+20 Conference and UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs. 11 June 2012 June 2012, No. 1 & 2 Vol. XLIX, The Future We Want? The ...

Author and global sustainable development leader Felix Dodds has been working with sustainable development for more than two decades observing and participating in international development meetings, ...

Author and global sustainable development leader Felix Dodds has spent more than two decades observing and participating in international development meetings, including the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, ...

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. As the dust settles on the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development(Rio+20), it ...

As a reminder, at Rio+20 last June, the United Nations obtained pledges worth $513 billion from governments and companies for projects aimed at reducing the strain on the earth’s resources. There were ...

This month, momentous events will occur on the global scene that will set the tone for whether 2012 will be a hopeful year or one in which dislocations and disconnects are further exacerbated by ...

Commentary: Rio+20: Understanding the Present in Light of the Future By Mikhail Gorbachev GENEVA, Switzerland, June 12, 2012 (ENS) – They say if you want make God laugh share your plans. I planned to ...

First the bad news: the planet is in peril. On June 6, an international team of scientists published a study in the journal Nature warning that because of human activity, Earth is reaching a ...