Category Archives: Rio+20
Video: Pablo Solon on what’s next after Rio+20
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Audio: Michael Dorsey on the 1992 Earth Summit vs the 2012 Earth Summit
Lindsey Gillies, for Climate Connections Earth Audio, interviews Michael Dorsey, professor at Dartmouth College. Dorsey was a youth delegate at the original Earth Summit in 1992. He talks about his experiences in 1992 and looks at pressing issues at the Rio+20 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Michael Dorsey
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Audio: Earth Minute – corporations try to advance the green (greed) economy in Rio
Global Justice Ecology Project partners with Margaret Prescod and the Sojourner Truth show for weekly Earth Minutes and weekly Earth Segment interviews.
To listen to or download this week’s Earth Minute on KPFK’s Sojourner Truth show, click on Earth Minute 27 June 2012.
Text from this week’s Earth Minute:
Last week, government leaders convened in Rio de Janeiro for the UN’s Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development. One of the goals: develop a Green Economy built on so-called “green growth” basically–a greenwashed version of the same Greed Economy that has trashed communities and ecosystems to enhance the profits of a very few. In response, social movements, Indigenous Peoples, organizations and Southern countries stood fast in Rio to oppose this Greenwash Economy.
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NGO views – Rio+20: the good, the bad and the invisible
Cross-posted from Alertnet
This photo, of a sticker produced by Global Justice Ecology Project and Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, went around the world on various media outlets. Photo: REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino.
LONDON (AlertNet) – Many environment and development groups have expressed disappointment with the political agreement that emerged from the U.N. conference on sustainable development in Rio de Janeiro last week.
The prevailing view is that it was short on specific commitments and targets, and lacked the level of ambition required to tackle the triple challenges of sustainable development – environmental, economic and social.
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What’s wrong with the green economy?: Alejandro Mariani, Terra Vista Settlement, Bahia, Brazil
Landless Workers’ Movement member Alejandro Mariani discusses the impacts that the Rio+20 conference and the “Green Economy” will have on landless workers in Brazil and around the world.
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What’s wrong with the green economy?: Michelle Maynard of PACJA –
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Rio+20 Peoples’ Summit closes with Declaration and points of struggle
June 25, 2012. One of the opening paragraphs of the Declaration produced at the close of the Peoples’ Summit states:
“The Peoples Summit is a symbolic moment of the beginning of a new cycle in the course of global struggles, which produced a new convergence of the movements of women, Indigenous Peoples, people of African descent, youth, family and peasant farmers, workers, the poor, and traditional communities such as quilombos, those who fight for the right to the city, and religious groups world wide.”
80, 000 people attended the Peoples’ Summit and at least 30,000 mobilized daily in different activities.
The full Declaration has yet to be translated into English (and Climate Connections will publish or link to it when it is), but it closes with these consensus points of struggle going forward:
We are:
- Opposed to militarization of territories and states.
- Opposed to criminalization of social movement organizations.
- Opposed to violence against women.
- Opposed to violence against LGBT people.
- Opposed to large corporations.
- Opposed to imposing payments of unjust financial debt and for popular hearings on them.
- For guaranteeing the right of the people to land and territory, urban and rural.
- For free informed and prior consultation and consent, based in the principle of good faith as per Convention 169 of the ILO.
- For food sovereignty and healthy food, against agrochemicals and transgenics.
- For the conquest and guarantee of rights.
- For the solidarity of peoples and countries, chiefly those threatened by military or institutional coups (like the recent one in Paraguay).
- For the sovereignty of the people over ownership of the commons, against attempts to privatize and commodify.
- For changing the current energy grid and system.
- For democratization of the communications media.
- For a recognition of the historic social and ecological debt.
- For building towards a worldwide GENERAL STRIKE.
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Rio+20 Breaking News: ALBA expels USAID from member countries
Cross-posted from Wrong Kind of Green, June 22, 2012
Resolution from the Political Council of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) for the immediate withdrawal of USAID from member countries of the alliance.
On behalf of the Chancellors of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, gathered in Rio de Janeiro, Federal Republic of Brazil, on June 21st 2012.
Given the open interference of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in the internal politics of the ALBA countries, under the excuse of “planning and administering economic and humanitarian assistance for the whole world outside of the United States,” financing non-governmental organizations and actions and projects designed to destabilise the legitimate governments which do not share their common interests.
Knowing the evidence brought to light by the declassified documents of the North American State Department in which the financing of organisations and political parties in opposition to ALBA countries is made evident, in a clear and shameless interference in the internal political processes of each nation.
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