The environmentalist Stanley Johnson’s latest book charts the United Nations Environment Programme’s progression over the four decades since its establishment in 1972 in captivating detail. On...
Today is World Oceans Day. Canada first proposed the event at the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992. It was celebrated unofficially every year on the...
The United Nations was born out of the ruins of the second world war. It replaced the ill-fated League of Nations, which had failed to prevent...
Rio+20 marks the 20th anniversary of the 1992 Earth Summit (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, or UNCED) which was staged in the same city....
Two decades have passed since the pioneering Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Today marks the dawning of the United Nations’ game-changing conference for...
There are less than two weeks to go before the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, commences. Blue & Green Tomorrow scours the headlines...