Regulating Geoengineering Research
Policy and governance concerns are priorities atop geoengineering preference scale for now. The science, though upcoming, is easily overcome by findings of different sort, but dealing with processes & results as policy issues, and control as governance issues appear to be more important since one earth is involved and the biosphere also is. Deployment of [...]
Rio +20: What did you expect?
Rio +20: What did you expect? It’s over. The long-awaited Earth Summit. By most standards, the event, which brought official delegates from 188 countries- including 100 heads of state- was a monumental let-down. Greenpeace called it a “failure of epic proportions”. The normally conservative CARE, considered it a political charade. The results were so bad [...]
South Asia: Every Day Is Earth Hour for Us
Earth Hour is a worldwide awareness event organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and it is held on the last Saturday of March annually. On this day households and businesses are requested to turn off their non-essential lights for one hour to raise awareness about climate change. More than 5,200 cities and [...]
Thinking Geoengineering
The Climate Vulnerable Forum has a number of sidelines events in the ongoing UN Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20, in Brazil, to discuss their position and expectation from the conference. The Forum consists of a group of developing nations that have high stakes in climate change matters; this includes nations from Africa, Asia and the [...]
Corporate Sustainability Pledges at Rio+20 UN Forum
The United Nations Global Compact Corporate Sustainability Forum saw more than 150 tangible commitments from the business community. Business leaders pledged sustainable policies and joined a call for world leaders to usher in “a green industrial revolution” to save the planet. The 1200 CEOs made voluntary commitments to greater energy efficiency, reforestation, a lower carbon [...]
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