Ban Ki Moon on the perspectives for Rio+20 at the World Economic ForumnewsThe World Economic Forum (WEF) held its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, from 25-29 January 2012, gathering industry, business, government and other world leaders to discuss current issues. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon participated in two panels, on ending energy poverty and on the perspectives for the UN Conference on Sustainable...
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Highlights from the World Future Energy Summit (16-19 January 2012, Abu Dhabi)newsThe fifth World Future Energy Summit (WFES) 2012 opened in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE), on 16 January 2012. The first day of this four-day event was organized around the theme “Policy and Strategy Forum,” and comprised opening statements from Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, CEO Masdar, Wen...
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Zero-draft for Rio+20 – paragraph n. 94 on mountainsnewsThe zero-draft of the outcome document for Rio+20 Conference is now online with a paragraph (n.94) dedicated to mountains. The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) Conference will take place on 20-22 June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1992...
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DGF meeting, 15 December 2011, New YorkmultimediaThe meeting was organized by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) in New York, in the framework of the Development Grant Facility (DGF) agreement.
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MFG and UN Workshop on Partnerships, New York, 14 December 2011multimediaFrom 14 to 16 December 2011, the Mountain Partnership Secretariat participated in meetings in New York looking to forge a common understanding on including mountain development in the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20) preparatory process and the Conference itself. The first meeting was the Mountain Focus Group....
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Mountain Research and Development, Volume 31, Issue 4 available online and open accessnewsThe “energy crisis” has been defined as one of the key issues of a “green economy” and is therefore on the agenda of the Earth Summit Rio +20. This issue of MRD is the third in 10 years that is devoted to sustainable production and use of energy in mountain...
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