Roads from Rio+20 // Pathways to achieve global sustainability goals by 2050
This report analyses how combinations of technological measures and changes in consumption patterns could contribute to achieving a set of…
Policy Brief // The Case for Energy-Smart Food Systems
The food sector accounts for around 30 percent of the world's total energy consumption, with more than 70 percent occurring beyond the farm gate;…
Issue Paper // Energy-Smart Food for People and Climate
Lack of access to modern energy services in many parts of the world is a fundamental barrier to reducing hunger and ensuring that the world can…
UN-Water // Water for Life Decade
Water for Life Decade website by UN Water with updated information on Water in Rio+20
AlertNet // Bangladesh wary of "green economy" agenda at Rio+20
Bangladesh will advocate for a "green economy" approach that does not constrain poorer nations' potential to grow at the U.N. conference on…
Messages for Rio // Sustainability is Essential for Development
Interview with Stephan Opitz, Director General of KfW, on the Rio+20 conference and the work of KfW. On the occasion of the UN-conference Rio+20 he…
Guyana Times // Improving energy use key challenge for world's food systems <<-->> FAO
Agriculture's heavy dependence on fossil fuels is undermining the sector's ability to feed the world, perpetuating poverty and undermining efforts to…
Just Means // The Role of Business in the Water-Food-Energy Nexus: Canadian Water Summit Comes to Calgary
The interconnectedness of energy, water and food has been the prime focus of international discussions this year. In March, the UN's Food and…
Messages for Rio // The Food Future We Want
Fairfood International has released "The Food Future We Want", a set of documents outlining our demands of the food and beverage industry…
People's Daily Online // Interview: Integrated water management pivotal to sustainable development: UNESCO official
Management of water resources needs "substantial improvement and actual reform in many countries," and an integrated management is significant for…
Report // Building Alliances for People, Food, and Nature
An unconventional approach that involves building alliances between groups competing for limited land and water resources has the potential to…
Messages for Rio // A Climate-Safe "Green Economy" Protects Rivers, Rejects Destructive Dams
The twentieth anniversary of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, comes at a time when human-caused emissions have pushed our…
World Economic Forum // Water: managing the world's most precious resource
The world's demand for fresh water is growing so fast that, by 2030, agriculture, industry and expanding cities will face such scarce supplies that…
Messages for Rio // CGIAR Call to Action
CGIAR calls for a focus on the entire agricultural landscape as an integrated system, which recognizes that isolated solutions will not reduce risks…
Publication // Contribution of Himalayan Ecosystems to Water, Energy, and Food Security in South Asia: A nexus approach
In the face of climatic and other socioeconomic changes, most South Asian countries having large and growing population, limited land resources, and…