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Rio+20: The Rio de Janeiro favela setting the standard for inner-city sustainability
RTCC’s Daniel Schweimler takes a tour of the Babilonia favela in Rio de Janeiro where sustainable development is at the heart of the community’s hopes for a higher quality of living and a healthier, more prosperous future.
Rio+20: Human Rights Watch call for global deal to include dignity and respect for minorities
Leading NGO calls for more focus on human dignity at Rio summit and less on ‘macro’ measurement figures such as GDP
Rio+20: Youth frame future in dynamic wall of art at UN summit
It’s not all doom and gloom at the Rio+20 summit. The ‘vision’ wall at the centre of the conference is ensuring the voice of youth is heard at the heart of the talks
Rio+20: Bringing the favela to Copacabana beach
An installation on the fringes of Copacabana beach uses familiar materials from favelas to illustrate the positive work currently going on in the city’s shanty towns.
Rio+20 Business Focus – Luc Gnacadja: “Business is one of the most important stakeholders” for desertification
UNCCD Executive Secretary explains why the role business will play in combating desertification is so important.
Rio+20 Business Focus: Combating drought in south-west China
Shanshui Conservation Center’s Meng Si explains how one small community in south-west China is fighting drought with some simple and inexspensive solutions.
Photo of the Week #22 – Gender equality at Rio+20
Will gender inequality continue to hamper the move towards sustainable development?
Sustainability in the favelas: Swapping guns for gardens
With the drugs and guns on their way out, one project in Latin America’s largest favela is now pursuing sustainable development, setting an example for those at Rio+20 to follow.
PODCAST: Benefits of the CDM for African Communities
In the thirteenth in the series of UNFCCC CDM Radio Club reports, Nigerian journalist Ugonma Cokey, travelled to Bonn, Germany, home of the UNFCCC to explore both the benefits and the limitations to the CDM in Africa.
Rio+20 Business Focus: Preserving natural water springs with Brazil’s Oasis Project
The Fundação Grupo Boticário explains how the Oasis Project in Brazil offer payment for property owners who conserve natural water springs for public consumption.
Environmentalism or human well-being? Rejecting a false dichotomy
Executive Director of the Stockholm Envrionment Institute, Johan Kuylenstierna, argues that environmentalism and human-well being can go hand-in-hand.
Rio+20 Business Focus: Yogic agriculture reaps benefits in India
Tasamin Ramsey of the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University explains what ‘Yogic farming’ is and how it is reaping rewards for communities in India.
Rio+20 Business Focus: What role will cities play in driving sustainable development?
Felicia Jackson asks, as international negoatiations continue to move at a slow place, what role could cities play in driving sustainable development?
Bestival, Roskilde, Øya, Bonnaroo: We rate the most sustainable festivals
As festival season approaches we’re here to help you choose an event which aims to limits its environmental impact.
UNFCCC launches latest round of CDM Radio competition
Following the first round of the CDM African Radio contest, the UNFCCC opens the second round of applications entitled “Changing Lives”.
Rio+20 Business Focus: How Himalayan communities can benefit from protecting their forests
Seema Karki from the ICIMOD explains how communities in the Himalayas can benefit from payment for preserving their forests under the REDD+ scheme.
Swishing: The eco-fashion phenomena taking over the world
With so many of us looking for a fashion bargain, why not try the latest eco-fashion trend which won’t break the bank: Swishing.
PODCAST: Creating jobs from solar in South Africa
In the twelfth in the series of UNFCCC CDM Radio Club reports, David Mwanza from Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation visits a CDM project in Durban, South Africa.
Green Olympics: London offers a local alternative to the carbon intensive food system
As Hackney based Growing Communities gets ready to support a second round to fruit and veg box start-ups across the UK, RTCC visits one of the projects first successes to learn more about community growing.
2012 Olympics: East London’s Cody Dock given new sustainable life ahead of Games
How the trend of ‘crowd-sourcing’ is helping an East-End London community at Cody Dock regenerate their area start ahead of this summer’s Olympic Games.