+++ The Com+ alliance is a partnership of international organizations and communications professionals from diverse sectors committed to using communications to advance a vision of sustainable development that integrates its three pillars: economic, social and environmental.
By offering a platform to share expertise, develop best practice and create synergies, Com+ hopes to actively support creative and inspiring communications across the world. +++
The second series of Nature Inc. is up-and-running on BBC World News. Click here for the current schedule. Nature Inc. is seeking out a new breed of investor – the biosphere bankers. The hard-headed types who view investment in sustainable development as good business strategy.
Given the present economic crisis, alliances between public and private institutions are key. Taking the crisis as an opportunity, COM+ Alliance in partnership with ALIARSE, organized an on-the-job training session on the subject for a group of nearly 40 Costa Rican journalists from different media outlets and organizations.
18 February 2009 - Now in its fifth year, World Challenge 09 is a global competition aimed at finding projects or small businesses from around the world that have shown enterprise and innovation at a grass roots level. Nominations are open!
Mexico City, 23 November 2008 - Seventy senior legislators from across the Americas endorsed today the commitment expressed by US President elect, Barack Obama, in linking economic recovery to a long term view of sustainability and fully supported his vision of reducing US greenhouse gas emissions by 80% below 1990 levels by 2050.
London, Mexico City, 18 November 2008 - Seventy senior legislators from across the Americas will gather in Mexico City November 21-23 to examine how to overcome the twin challenges of the global financial and climate crises. The meeting is intended to help facilitate dialogue among lawmakers ahead of negotiations between developed and developing countries on a draft global warming agreement ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland, in early December.
News articles
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, 17 June 2009 - Inefficient production, bad infrastructure, poor access to markets, a lack of capital investment: the challenges facing smallholder farmers across Africa are many. A 'green revolution' which appears to be gaining ground in Africa seeks to change all this.
IPS, 16 June 2009 - Reducing carbon levels in the atmosphere may be as simple as planting a new breed of hybridised chestnut trees, according to a new study by Purdue University Associate Professor Douglass Jacobs.
IPS, 15 June 2009 - The global economic crisis, which has pushed millions more into extreme poverty, is threatening to have a devastating impact on the health of women and children.
IPS, 14 June 2009 - Spectacular views of mountains and glaciers here in the world's most northerly permanent human settlement contrasted with business and political leaders' pessimism and concern about the enormous gap between the action on climate that science deems necessary and what politics considers realistic.
IPS, 14 June 2009 - New scientific research suggests that climate change is taking place faster than foreseen in studies considered so far, according to environmental experts at a forum on climate change called by the Global Legislators Organisation for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE).
