+++ La Alianza de Comunicadores para el Desarrollo Sostenible, COM+, es una asociación de organizaciones internacionales y profesionales de la comunicación de diversos sectores comprometidos para usar las comunicaciones para avanzar en una visión de desarrollo sostenible que integre sus tres pilares: económico, social y ambiental.
Al ofrecer una plataforma para compartir experiencia, desarrollar mejores prácticas y crear sinergias, COM+ espera apoyar activamente comunicaciones creativas e inspiradoras a través del mundo. +++
Port au Prince, Haiti, 20 January 2010 - The Thomson Reuters Foundation has successfully launched its Emergency Information Service (EIS) to assist the disaster-struck population of Haiti and has already received more than 2700 messages. The new service, launched Sunday, allows survivors of the earthquake to receive critical information via a variety of communications channels, including SMS message directly to their phones, free of charge. Individuals can also send feedback via the same system that will reach the aid organisations working in Haiti.
18 December 2009 - Wangari Maathai , Kenya 's 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner, spoke at the launch of Alertnet: Climate, a new website on the humanitarian impacts of climate change funded by Com+, Danida and the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Copenhagen, 17 December 2009 - This morning, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown presented the GLOBE International Award for International Leadership on the Environment to Mexican President Felipe Calderon on behalf of the 120 legislators from the major economies who participated in the GLOBE International Legislators' Forum in Copenhagen on 24-25 October.
Toronto, 16 December 2009– A global survey has found that professionals involved in making decisions that have implications for climate change are calling for Europe to take a leadership stance in negotiations in Copenhagen, where leaders from around the world are meeting for a major UN climate conference (COP15).
This Video News Release was produced by Dev TV to coincide with the Globe Legislators Forum in Copenhagen (October 24th and 25th) and was distributed by satellite to more than than 1,000 channels through EBU (Europe), URTNA (Africa), ABU (Asia), ASBU (Middle East), NABA (North America), OTI (Latin America), CBU (Caribbean).
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Informando sobre temas clave de desarrollo sostenible
COM+, en un esfuerzo conjunto con Inter Press Service y la Federación Internacional de Periodistas Ambientales (IFEJ), está estimulando a periodistas ambientales alrededor del planeta a producir artículos independientes y profundos sobre temas de desarrollo sostenible gracias a la iniciativa: “Llevando el Desarrollo Sostenible Cerca de la Gente Mediante Redes Líderes de Medios y Sociedad Civil”.
Los artículos pueden ser leídos en inglés, español y algunos de ellos en francés, y son distribuidos por el servicio informativo de IPS, los socios de COM+, Tierramérica, la red de IFEJ, Terraviva y Planet´s Voice, entre otros.
IPS, 3 February 2010 - European governments failed to help along an international treaty to stop global warming at the United Nations climate change summit in December, but their engineering and power industries see business opportunities in renewable energy sources and their smart management.
IPS, 2 February 2010 - The Amazon jungle "is very close to a tipping point," and if destruction continues, it could shrink to one third of its original size in just 65 years, warns Thomas Lovejoy, world-renowned tropical biologist.
IPS, 31 January 2010 - One of the greatest challenges facing the world today is to attend to the urgent social needs of the planet's population, and particularly the one billion people living "on the brink of survival", while dealing with the equally urgent demands of the environment.
IPS, 29 January 2010 - Biodiversity, already decaying fast as a result of climate change and intensive farming, is under further threat by genetic modification (GM) of seeds, says a leading German ecological activist.
