of sustainable development communications through partnership and
collaboration
By offering a platform to share expertise, develop best practice and create synergies, COMplus actively supports creative and inspiring communications that advance a vision of sustainable development that builds on its social, environmental and economic foundations.
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).
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 Networksâ€. 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, 8 March 2010 - Activists in Mexico complain that the deforestation threatening the environmental health of Mexico has been accentuated by the granting of public areas to private companies.
IPS, 7 March 2010 - The vast majority of the species protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES, live on land, but as marine species come under increasing pressure from unsustainable fishing and a range of climate change-related threats that focus is beginning to shift.
IPS, 5 March 2010 - The frozen cap trapping billions of tonnes of methane under the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean is leaking and venting the powerful greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, new research shows.
IPS, 3 March 2010 - The echoes of failure still sounding from the Copenhagen summit on climate change in December are spurring efforts to reform the international legal framework. Civil society groups are demanding a new, more agile system that is both influential and effective.
