Friday 1 July: as economists hope that Asia’s tiger economies will now lead the way out of global recession, communist Laos remains a relative newcomer. Now it’s open for business – with outside investment pouring in, and resources like timber and rubber pouring out, transforming the country and turning virgin forest into fields and plantations.

Eighteen journalists from around the world flew into Bonn, in Germany’s picturesque Rhineland, in early June for a media workshop during the latest round of international negotiations on tackling global warming under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Gland, Switzerland/London, UK 9 June 2010 – IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), Thomson Reuters Foundation and COMplus are launching the 2010 Media Awards, a worldwide competition aimed at raising global awareness of environmental and sustainable development issues, by encouraging the highest standards in environmental reporting worldwide.

IPS and partners celebrated International Biodiversity Day, May 22nd, with the launch in Rome of biodiversity reporting guidelines for journalists covering this vital but complex topic. The guidelines are part of a wider communication initiative for 2010, the International Year of Biodiversity. IPS worked with partners Bioversity International and theInternational Federation of Environment Journalists (IFEJ) on the guidelines, within the COMplus sustainable development communication alliance.

6 April 2010 - Zimbabwean journalist Busani Bafana is the 2009 recipient of the Award for Excellence in Agricultural Science Journalism, described by CGIAR as”[a] professional who has put his way with words at the service of Africa's agriculture”.

“Everything is impossible until it is done.” The words of Nelson Mandela were quoted repeatedly all around Durban’s vast International Convention Centre (ICC), home for two intense weeks to the United Nations climate change summit (COP 17). And they turned out to be prophetic, yet again.

In the lead up to the Rio+20 conference, the WBCSD is keen to promote the work of its members as positive contributors to creating a more sustainable world. In partnership with the Guardian; the leading newspaper on sustainability issues the WBCSD has created Business on the Road to Rio web hub; an online destination for news and opinion on the business contribution to Rio+20 and how the conference will impact business. The hub is part of the Guardian Sustainable Business website.

Thomson Reuters Foundation, which publishes AlertNet Climate, has just launched youTrust.org, a new kind of social media platform. It enables you to easily share multimedia information with your community of interest, and gives you the means to create your own campaigns and engage others on issues you care about.

Washington, DC / Pretoria, September 15, 2011 -- The World Bank, in collaboration with more than 50 global partners, is launching the Connect4Climate initiative -- a campaign, a competition, and a community that cares about climate change.

For the 7th consecutive year the World Challenge is searching for grassroots community projects that promote sustainable development through innovation and original thinking. Our mission is simple: to reward small businesses which have found solutions to some of the world's most pressing problems.