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Yogic farming: Hippy culture or the answer to global famine and land degradation?
Yogic farming is said to increase yields and boost the quality of the crops being grown across India – could it be an effective solution to land degradation and rising demand for food?
PODCAST: Are women the key to moving climate change debate forward?
An increased role for women in climate and sustainable development talks is vital a panel of world leaders tell RTCC.
South Australia to get “hotter and drier” from climate change, warns report
New report warns urgent adaptation is needed for local communities in South Australia to deal with hotter and drier conditions from climate change.
PODCAST: Restoring human dignity in South Africa with the CDM
In the fifteenth in the series of UNFCCC CDM Radio Club reports RTCC is hosting, Zeenat Abdool, a radio journalist from South Africa visits the community outside Durban to see how much a solar heater project has changed their lives.
Rio+20: What next for civil society following Earth Summit ‘failure’?
As civil society groups across the globe denounce politicians for their lack of action, is it time for a new era where the individual and the collective take on the challenge?
Hanna Thomas: Why I walked out of Rio+20 summit in despair
Hanna Thomas from Otesha Project UK explains why she joined 130 activists in walking out of the Rio+20 summit in protest at lack of action from world leaders
Rio+20: A day at Rio’s other summit – the People’s Conference
There’s a another conference happening in Rio de Janeiro – this one on the other side of the city and a two-hour traffic jam away from where the politicians are gathered.
Photo of the week #23 – The world’s expanding cities
This week, the challeneges posed by rapid population growth and urbanisation.
PODCAST: How does the CDM benefit sustainable development
In the fourteenth in the series of UNFCCC CDM Radio Club reports RTCC is hosting, Ugonma Cokey, from Voice of Nigeria traveled to Bonn to explore how the CDM is contributing to sustainable development.
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.