Past Events
Side Event at Rio+20 // Towards a Green and Resilient Economy: Addressing the Climate-Water Nexus
By highlighting the linkages among climate change risks and opportunities, sustainable development and adaptation, this session will explore how companies can integrate and…
Session at the ICLEI World Congress // "Resource Efficient City"
The "nexus" of food, water and energy represents one of the biggest challenges in urban areas. If supplies of these three key resources are not maintained over time to serve…
Rio+20 Corporta Sustainability Forum
Innovation and Collaboration for the Future We Want
Panel Discussion // The European Report on Development 2011/2012
The third European Report on Development (ERD) — drawn up by three European think tanks, the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), the European Centre for Development Policy…
Side Event at Rio+20 // 4th Helena Z. Benitez Global Forum on Gender Justice and the Green Economy, Focusing on Water, Energy and Food
The event aims to present fully gender and development issues which are vigorously embedded within the framework of fundamental human rights and gender justice in the…
Global Town Hall at Rio+20, Rio De Janeiro
The Global Town Hall is being convened by ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability, during the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20).
Third PrepCom for UNCSD, Rio De Janeiro
The General Assembly specified that a three-day PrepCom should convene in May 2010, a two-day PrepCom should convene in March 2011, and a three-day PrepCom should convene…
Side Event at the ICSU Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation // "Water security" <<-->> A New Paradigm of Adaptive Management
This session aims to consider how a new paradigm of adaptive management can be developed to address water security issues in a context of growing multiple needs and water…
Side Event at Rio+20 // "Rio+20 <<-->> A Call to Action"
Second Trade Union Assembly on Labour and Environment, Rio de Janeiro
Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development, Rio de Janeiro
The Forum is organised by ICSU, in partnership with UNESCO, the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO), the International Social Science Council (ISSC), the…
Report Slides // The Global Resource Nexus: The Struggles for Land, Energy, Food, Water, and Minerals
by the German Federal Foreign Office (AA), the Transatlantic Academy and the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU)
World Environment Day 2012: "Green Economy: Does it include you?"
The 2012 theme for World Environment Day is Green Economy: Does it include you? Evidently, there are two parts to this theme and the first tackles the subject of the Green…
Workshop // Workshop on "Integrated Resource Management in Asian Cities": The Energy, Water and Food-Security Nexus
The rapidly growing cities in Asia will face enormous challenges in ensuring water, energy and food security for their population if not now than in near future. To discuss…
Session at the "Green Week 2012" // Water security: Policies for better access
Friends of Europe is organising its annual European Policy Summit on Wednesday, 23 May 2012 as part of the official programme of the European Commission's 2012 Green Week.