Tag Archives: Rio+20
BES President Professor Georgina Mace talks to PLoS about Rio+20 and progress in the ‘limits to growth’ debate
BES President Professor Georgina Mace yesterday talked to the Public Library of Science’s (PLoS) Biology Podcast about the upcoming challenges faced at the Rio+20 talks, and considered whether recent papers on environmental limits to population growth show progress in this … Continue reading
Westminster debate: Rio+20 and the future of sustainable development on the International Day of Biodiversity
An All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Development & the Environment (APPG IDE) meeting was held today in Westminster to discuss challenges facing policy-makers ahead of the UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June this year. The APPG IDE … Continue reading
Materials from WWF ‘Navigating the Perfect Storm’ event available
Presentation slides, audio and video recordings, photos and links from the joint WWF-UK and Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) event ‘Navigating the Perfect Storm’ last month have been made available online. The evening was chaired by Professor John Beddington, Chief … Continue reading
Navigating the Perfect Storm: the international challenge of food, water and energy security
In 2009, Professor John Beddington, Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government, used the term ‘perfect storm’ to describe the critical combination of food shortages, water scarcity and insufficient energy resources facing the world’s population, predicting these would come to a … Continue reading
Ocean acidification: a policy gap to address at Rio+20?
A study due to be published in Nature Climate Change journal (released to press) suggests that the current rate of ocean acidification, caused by increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, could be up to two orders of magnitude greater than … Continue reading
From ‘Sliding Doors’ to a paradigm shift – What’s needed in Rio+20?
The Rio +20 Earth Summit, taking place in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012, needs to build upon the momentum begun by the last round of UNFCCC climate change negotiations in Duban, South Africa. That was the message of an … Continue reading