+++ 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. +++
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”.
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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, 14 April 2010 - How's this for short-sighted: A billion people go hungry every day, food prices have climbed 30 to 40 percent, climate change is reducing agricultural production - and for the past two decades, the world has slashed investments in publicly-funded agriculture until it is a pittance in most countries.
IPS, 14 April 2010 - The 2009 global financial crisis marked the definitive end of longstanding paradigms of the global economy and development, such as the "Third World" and "North-South", according to World Bank President Robert Zoellick.
IPS, 13 April 2010 - Over the past four years, the Local Small-scale Irritation Project has spent more than $10.5 million U.S. dollars supporting rural communities in Senegal.
IPS, 13 April 2010 - The gathering environmental crisis presented by global warming makes effective weather information and prediction a matter of urgency. As Africa's farmers come to grips with adapting to climate change, it may be that the best way to equip them is to involve them directly in collecting the data.
IPS, 12 April 2010 - A once-in-a-century drought in south-west China has sparked concern over how China, which has one-fifth of the world's population but just 7 percent of its water, has managed its water supply and growing network of hydroelectric dams.
