Growth and Sustainability
UE-Amérique latine: repenser la politique de développement
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Le développement doit-il être considéré uniquement comme un rattrapage économique ou plutôt dans une perspective de durabilité et de viabilité? (Text also below in English/Text auch unter auf Deutsch)
Sustainable Development materials
Here is a selection of materials on growth and sustainable development issues for the use of CIDSE member organisations.
SDGs: Cutting through the fog
CIDSE's Policy and Advocacy Officer Denise Auclair about the quick rise to fame of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Dark clouds gather over Rio+20
In Rio de Janeiro, the differences between Copacabana and the Rocinha favela exemplify what is wrong with our world, but hopes that Rio+20 will result in bold action are fading.
High hopes, low expectations for Rio+20
In 1992 a 13 year old girl asked world leaders attending the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit to stop breaking the planet, if they weren’t able to fix it. Twenty years later leaders gather again in Rio to discuss measures to make our world more sustainable, but sadly there has been too much breaking and too little fixing in the meantime.
Your Own Tomatoes Really Are Sweeter (Imagining Sustainability - 7)
Dutch CIDSE member Cordaid and Both ENDS collected the visions and insights of seven Southern visionaries, each with a unique approach to transforming his or her dream into concrete, local initiatives. Today we present you the seventh and last vision of sustainability as the UN Conference on Sustainable Development 'Rio+20' (20-22 June 2012) is at the doors: Zenaida Delica Willison (the Philippines) of UNDP.
Buen Vivir, The Good Life (Imagining Sustainability - 6)
Dutch CIDSE member Cordaid and Both ENDS collected the visions and insights of seven Southern visionaries, each with a unique approach to transforming his or her dream into concrete, local initiatives. We present you their visions of sustainability based on ecological values and human rights in the run up to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development 'Rio+20' (20-22 June 2012). Today, Eduardo Gudynas about living a more sober, but good life.
In search of the human dimension in China (Imagining Sustainability - 5)
Dutch CIDSE member Cordaid and Both ENDS collected the visions and insights of seven Southern visionaries, each with a unique approach to transforming his or her dream into concrete, local initiatives. We present you their visions of sustainability based on ecological values and human rights in the run up to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development 'Rio+20' (20-22 June 2012). Today, Chee Yoke Ling of the Third World Network about dreams of a sustainable China.
Experiencing the Sanctity of Life (Imagining Sustainability - 4)
Dutch CIDSE member Cordaid and Both ENDS collected the visions and insights of seven Southern visionaries, each with a unique approach to transforming his or her dream into concrete, local initiatives. We present you their visions of sustainability based on ecological values and human rights in the run up to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development 'Rio+20' (20-22 June 2012). Today, CIDSE partner Moema de Miranda, Director of Brazilian research institute IBASE.
Seeds are the Very Source of Life (Imagining Sustainability - 3)
Dutch CIDSE member Cordaid and Both ENDS collected the visions and insights of seven Southern visionaries, each with a unique approach to transforming his or her dream into concrete, local initiatives. We present you their visions of sustainability based on ecological values and human rights in the run up to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development 'Rio+20' (20-22 June 2012). Today, Farida Akhter, women's rights activist from Bangladesh.
Highlights
South Sudan
Written by CIDSE - Written on Thursday, 13 December 2012
Continental Platform for Latin America (COPLA)
Written by CIDSE - Written on Wednesday, 18 April 2012
