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Fighting for a Real Green Economy

Posted by on January 12, 2012  Tagged with:
Jan 122012
 

Dear Friends,
As you may know, the Rio +20 Zero Draft document was released this week and this will be the starting point for the negotiations at the upcoming Earth Summit. It is a very general document which seems to be non-threatening, but please do not be fooled!
There is truly a lot at stake in Rio. […]

 

Last weekend in Barcelona, the Council of Canadians participated in a gathering of more than 90 activists involved in planning the alternative world water forum (Forum Alternatif Mondial de l’Eau) to take place in Marseilles on March 14 to 17. The FAME is a counter summit taking in opposition to the 6th World Water Forum […]

 

The Guardian reports, “Countries will be asked this summer to sign up for 10 new sustainable development goals for the planet and promise to build green economies… According to a leak of the draft agenda document seen by the Guardian, they will also be asked to negotiate a new agreement to protect oceans, approve an […]

Jan 102012
 

Today, around 50 people from Spain and different parts of the world rallied in front of the corporate offices of Aguas de Barcelona (Agbar) in its base city. We had all had good reason to speak out against this transnational. People from Greece, Philippines and Italy spoke about the struggles of fighting against water privatization […]

 

The Times of India reports that the following issues are being discussed in the lead-up to the Rio+20 summit:

“global targets for reducing subsidies on social goods in the name of ‘getting prices right’ (allowing markets to operate without any intervention by the governments, even in supply of essential services like drinking water, food, public health, […]

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