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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.
Rio+20 Business Focus: Yogic agriculture reaps benefits in India
Tasamin Ramsey of the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University explains what ‘Yogic farming’ is and how it is reaping rewards for communities in India.
Rio+20 Business Focus: What role will cities play in driving sustainable development?
Felicia Jackson asks, as international negoatiations continue to move at a slow place, what role could cities play in driving sustainable development?
Bestival, Roskilde, Øya, Bonnaroo: We rate the most sustainable festivals
As festival season approaches we’re here to help you choose an event which aims to limits its environmental impact.
UNFCCC launches latest round of CDM Radio competition
Following the first round of the CDM African Radio contest, the UNFCCC opens the second round of applications entitled “Changing Lives”.
Rio+20 Business Focus: How Himalayan communities can benefit from protecting their forests
Seema Karki from the ICIMOD explains how communities in the Himalayas can benefit from payment for preserving their forests under the REDD+ scheme.
Swishing: The eco-fashion phenomena taking over the world
With so many of us looking for a fashion bargain, why not try the latest eco-fashion trend which won’t break the bank: Swishing.
PODCAST: Creating jobs from solar in South Africa
In the twelfth in the series of UNFCCC CDM Radio Club reports, David Mwanza from Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation visits a CDM project in Durban, South Africa.
Green Olympics: London offers a local alternative to the carbon intensive food system
As Hackney based Growing Communities gets ready to support a second round to fruit and veg box start-ups across the UK, RTCC visits one of the projects first successes to learn more about community growing.
2012 Olympics: East London’s Cody Dock given new sustainable life ahead of Games
How the trend of ‘crowd-sourcing’ is helping an East-End London community at Cody Dock regenerate their area start ahead of this summer’s Olympic Games.
Adaptation to climate change will no longer be enough says report by CARE, WWF & ActionAid
Coalition of NGOs call for more action to tackle the irreversible impacts of climate change as adaptation and mitigation methods falls short.
PODCAST: Turning waste to energy in South Africa
In the eleventh in the series of UNFCCC CDM Radio Club reports RTCC is hosting, Wambi Michael, a radio producer in Uganda, examines the potential for energy from waste in Africa.
‘Ocean of Life’: Ocean biodiversity suffering at hands of alien invaders
Ahead of the release of ‘Ocean of Life’, the work of Professor Callum Roberts, professor of marine conservation at the University of York, RTCC takes a closer look at some of the book’s claims.
Rio+20 Business Focus: Cutting carbon – not trees – in Cambodia
As part of our Rio+20 series focused on business and sustainable development we examine the role communities play in climate mitigation through the REDD+ scheme.
Coastal seagrass could store more CO2 than forests
New research in Nature Geoscience, find that coastal seagrass has the potential to be vital carbon sinks and therefore part of the solution to climate change.