By Felix Dodds and Michael Strauss with Maurice F. StrongRoutledge Publishing, June 2012 New book Only One Earth looks back over what has been achieved in the past forty years since the United Nations...
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) is scheduled to take place in Rio de Janeiro from 20 to 22 June 2012. The GA resolution 64/236 calling for the Conference stipulates that its...
The Board of Directors of Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future is pleased to announce the appointment of Farooq Ullah as the new, incoming Executive Director.
The Ministry of the Environment of Finland and Stakeholder Forum, along with partners, are working together to establish a network through which NSDCs can share best practice and promote sustainable development domestically and internationally.
Organised by Stakeholder Forum and UNEP the event will take place on Sunday 29th of April at the Church Centre, New York, from 9:15 am to 4:00 pm. The agenda will cover:
(Sunday, 22nd April) This year’s 42nd Earth Day has special significance in the run-up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit as it marks an opportunity for people to unite their voices in a call for...
In order to implement paragraph 21 of General Assembly resolution A/RES/64/236, which “encourages the active participation of all major groups” at all stages of the preparatory process, the Rio+20 Secretariat, in partnership with the...
Stakeholder Forum with NRDC and Peace Child have launched Earth Summit Watch. The initiative provides users with information on what UN member states are doing to prepare for June’s Rio+20 conference.
This month we launched the Global Transition 2012 newsletter with highlights from our Global Transition 2012 Initiative, which aims to achieve an outcome from Rio+20 that catalyses a global transition to an economy that...
Institutional frameworks required to underpin the transition to a Green economy from the perspective of the private sector and the mutual roles of government and civil society.