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Tokyo, 29 June 2008 - After a three year GLOBE dialogue, over a hundred lawmaker s from the world's major developed and developing powers today reached an agreement on a post 2012 Climate Change Framework.
Tokyo, 28 June 2008 - Please find attached the special messages (PDF 161 kb) delivered to the G-8 and Plus 5 Legislators Forum on Climate Change by Republican Senator John McCain (via video) and Senator Barack Obama (D) via text.
19 June 2008 - More than 100 lawmakers from the G8 countries and Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa will meet in Tokyo next week (June 28-29) for final deliberations on a post 2012 climate change framework that will be presented to the Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda ahead of the forthcoming G8 Summit in Hokkaido, Japan, on July 7-9.
13 June 2008 - On 13 June 2008, a new TV series goes to air on BBC World News on the cash value of the services ecosystems provide to the man-made global economy. According to one estimate it could be as much as $60 trillion, more than the total value of global GDP.
Registrations have opened for the Second Edition of AVINA Awards of Investigative Journalism for Sustainable Development. This is a project of AVINA Foundation, which is aimed at undertaking cooperation with media outlets and journalists to enhance the public agenda with respect to the relevant issues underlying the search for sustainable development models in Latin America.
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Reporting on sustainable development key issues
COM+, in a joint effort with Inter Press Service (IPS) and the International Federation of Environmental Journalists (IFEJ), is encouraging environmental journalists around the globe to produce in-depth, independent articles on sustainable development key issues, through the initiative: “Bringing Sustainable Development Closer to the People through Mainstream and Civil Society Media Networks”. The articles can be read in English, Spanish and some of them in French and are distributed through the IPS global wire service, COM+ partners, Tierramerica, IFEJ network, Terraviva and Planet's Voice among others.
Visit the IPS website for full coverage in English and in Spanish
IPS, 11 July 2008 - A group of young people from several European countries are taking a cycling tour from Bulgaria to Turkey to show the world that travelling and a good life are possible without much energy consumption.
IPS, 9 July 2008 - While the world's major industrialised nations expressed satisfaction over their three-day summit meetings that concluded Wednesday, non-governmental organisations, after some early and limited approval, were deeply disappointed with the outcome on the whole.
IPS, 8 July 2008 - Fisheries catches in tropical island nations may be as much as 17 times higher than officially reported, according to a new study released Tuesday.
IPS, 7 July 2008 - The implementation of internationally agreed development goals (IADGs) -- including the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger by 2015 -- is being increasingly hampered by lack of coordination and coherence both among rich and poor nations, and also within the United Nations.
