Pedro Walpole, SJ and Sylvia Miclat Mineral extraction, whether metallic and non-metallic, and including coal and other fossil fuels, is a continuing environmental and social
Tag: sustainable development
Indigenous Peoples’ International Declaration on Self-Determination and Sustainable Development
Indigenous Peoples from all regions of the world met at the “Indigenous Peoples International Conference on Sustainable Development and Self Determination” from 17th to 19th
From Rio ’92: Sustainable Development to Eco-solidarity
Leandro Sequeiros, SJ Twenty years ago, in 1992, amid the “pomp” of the celebrations of the Spanish “discovery” of America, I was fortunate to live
Leaders’ Forum on the Future Women Want: Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment for Sustainable Development
Leaders’ Forum on the Future Women Want:Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment for Sustainable Development Michelle Bachelet Executive Director of UN Women and former Chilean President,
We hope in people
Patxi Álvarez, SJ This Rio+20 Conference is an exhibition of countless groups coming from all over the world that aspire to bring a humane life
Sustainable Development – What we are learning
Frank Turner, SJ Ideas of development themselves develop. We do not imagine today, as many people did in the so-called ‘development’ decade of the 1960s,
Tackling displacement by natural disasters in sustainable development
Pedro Walpole “Over a million people have lost their lives since Rio ‘92 in disasters… 4.4 billion have been displaced, most internally…,” remarks Manuel Bessler
Hope, engine of change
Luis Arancibia On April 9, 1992, exactly 20 years ago, the volcano Cerro Black, located in the region of Lechecuagos near the city of Leon
The future we want
Jaime Tatay, SJ “We aspire to nothing less than a global movement for generational change. I expect the negotiators (…) to achieve renewed political commitment
What does Rio+20 mean to me?
Peter Henriot, SJ As I type this short note, I’m shivering in the “unseasonable” cold weather of early June here in Lilongwe, Malawi. Winter isn’t