Global Warming is Real Blog // Findings and Solutions in the Living Planet Report
Richard Matthews on the Messages of WWF's Living Planet Report The WWF's Living Planet Report (LPR) is the world's leading science-based analysis on…
Publication // HSBC: Exploring the links between water and economic growth
Population and economic growth are putting pressure on available fresh water resources worldwide. Uncertain water availability is a challenge that…
World Declaration // IHA at al.: Water Storage for Sustainable Development
The global increase in population, both rural and urban, and the socio-economic development with increasing living standards for all, will…
OECD Message for Rio // Not just for the rich: Green growth and developing countries
A few years ago, I was invited to present the OECD's International Futures Programme at a meeting on long-term issues organised by the UK's Foresight…
Huffington Post // The Alarm Is Ringing, Time to Wake Up to Water
No resource is more fundamental than water to the health and security of people and the environment. Yet the alarm bells are ringing as this finite,…
Publication // Water: Asia's New Battleground
The battles of yesterday were fought over land. Those of today are over energy. But the battles of tomorrow may be over water. Nowhere is that danger…
UNCCD Press Release // UNCCD Calls for Rio+20 to Agree on a Sustainable Development Goal on Land
The international community needs to agree on a sustainable development goal with a measurable target of achieving zero net land degradation by 2030.…
Publication // IISD/GWSP: The Role of Water in the Green Economy <<-->> A Perspective from the Water Science Community
Rio+20 aspires to create "the future we want," an epochal economic transformation to sustainable production and consumption. The…
Publication // Sustainable water management through green economy?
Twenty years after the international community meeting in Rio de Janeiro agreed on the triad of ecological, economic and social sustainability, the…
BBC News // Resource depletion: Opportunity or looming catastrophe?
Imagine a world of spiralling food prices, water shortages and soaring energy costs. For many living in the world today, this nightmare scenario is…
BBC News // So much to do, so little time
"Along with thousands of government delegates, activists, academics, business chiefs and other journalists I'm making my way this week to Rio de…
ERD Blog // Where next for the WEL nexus? Some clues from efforts to integrate in water
Water, energy and land are headline issues in the run-up to Rio+20. The 2012 European Report on Development (ERD), which has its UK launch at DFID on…
IPS news // Will Water Dry Up at Summit on Sustainable Development?
he headline in a New York newspaper last March captured the essence of a future potential threat to political stability the world over: "U.S. Report…
Sustainability@Newcastle Blog // Water-Energy-Food nexus — what is it and how might it be approached at Rio+20?
The Water-energy-food nexus (or other permutations) is increasingly finding itself in the public discourse surrounding development and…
Policy Recommendation // Briefing Note "Water for Energy" by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
This paper aims at identifying and recommending best practices and policies from global business to address the water-energy nexus, while outlining…