#rio20

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#1 and most Loyal USA Supporters... They Dabbed on TV at every Olympic event 😂💀 #olympics #rio20

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The Future We Want of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (2012)

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Feriados na JMJ RIO2013

Amigos, algumas pessoas que são contra a JMJ no Rio (e eu ainda postarei minha opinião sobre o assunto aqui) chegam com o argumento do feriado. Uma cidade não pode parar por causa de um evento religioso.

Eu gostaria de destacar que em NENHUM momento, a Igreja, o Papa, o Vaticano, Deus nem ninguém pediu o feriado. Não teve feriado na JMJ Madrid2011.

Para termos uma noção do ridículo, segue matéria traduzida por mim do CORRIERE DELLA SERA, principal jornal italiano:

O PAPA VEM? TODOS DE FÉRIAS! QUASE UMA SEMANA SEM TRABALHO

RIO DE JANEIRO - O Papa vem? Todo mundo de vérias. Dois dias inteiros - quinta e sexta-feira - mais duas outras meias jornadas de trabalho, nos dias que Francisco passeará pela cidade. Não se trabalha, não se vai à escola em quase a semana inteira no Rio de Janeiro. Quem decidiu isso, de forma extraordinária, foi o Prefeito Eduardo Paes, "para facilitar o deslocamento dos cidadãos e de quem chega de fora" durante os eventos da Jornada Mundial da Juventude. Mas é uma ação polêmica, porque é um truque que se repete frequentemente nos grandes eventos, mas às vezes basta uma partida da seleção brasileira na cidade.

Basicamente, é o único modo que a administração do Rio encontra para reduzir o tráfego urbano e a aglomeração de pessoas. Se repetirá no ano que vem durante a Copa do Mundo de Futebol e em 2016, nas Olimpíadas.

(...)

NERVOSISMO - O Prefeito Paes perdeu a paciência na manhã de ontem (22/01) quando um jornalista francês, durante uma coletiva, perguntou se ele não achava um exagero quase uma semana inteira de feriado no Rio. "Vocês tem muito mais feriados que nós. A França não é exatamente um modelo de gente trabalhadora...". O repórter francês saiu da sala como protesto, mas o prefeito não se desculpou.

Original em 24/07/2013

[greenafrica]

New in Africa Renewal

Latest stories and news from the August issue of Africa Renewal magazine.

25 July 2012

SPECIAL FEATURE

African economies capture world attention

Africa’s economic indicators are remarkably positive, capturing the world’s attention

Harnessing African stock exchanges

How the right policies can unleash the power of African stock exchanges

Steady growth in tourism in Africa

Innovation and better infrastructure can draw more visitors

New cash for expanding business

Private equity reaches out to capital-hungry African companies

Mining for development

New calls for contracts to benefit communities

Also in this issue

Rio summit keeps hopes alive

Some gains, plus commitments to future sustainable development talks

Eye on the prize

African schools focus on attaining universal primary education

Mali’s Timbuktu suffers rebel fury

Terror unleashed on the revered Timbuktu mausoleums

Is democracy in West Africa under threat?

Recent coups in Mali and Guinea-Bissau raise eyebrows

Building peace from the ground up

Key roles for civil society in keeping violence at bay

Africa Wired: The BlackBerry sensation in Africa continues

Smartphone’s secret to success is affordability

Book Review: War and Conflict in Africa

A comprehensive overview of the broad patterns of warfare in Africa, and a few possible lessons for achieving peace

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Displacement and Development: Moving Forward from Rio +20

The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio late last month ended not with a bang, but a whimper. The Future We Want, the conference’s 283-paragraph outcome agreement, contains no enforceable commitments on the critical threats facing our planet and its people, including climate change. It also contains no mention of some of the groups who bear the brunt of inadequate development and environmental degradation, such as refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs). The failure to include displacement more centrally on the Rio agenda is striking as the links between refugees, IDPs and development are gaining increased attention in other quarters, particularly given the growing numbers uprooted by natural disasters associated with climate change. As the dust settles after another failed mega-summit, governments, international agencies and civil society leaders face the challenge of devising a new set of internationally supported sustainable development goals (SDGs) to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that are to be met by 2015. How might displacement figure in this process? For all its shortcomings, Rio +20 provided some openings for more effectively integrating displacement into the post-2015 sustainable development framework. The Rio +20 outcome document calls for states “to promote and protect effectively the human rights and fundamental freedom of all migrants regardless of the migration status, especially those of women and children, and to address international migration through international, regional or bilateral cooperation and dialogue and for a comprehensive and balanced approach, recognizing the roles and responsibilities of countries of origin, transit and destination in promoting and protecting the human rights of all migrants, and avoiding approaches that might aggravate their vulnerability.” The document also acknowledges migrants as significant stakeholders in sustainable development processes, and devotes attention to disaster risk reduction, a critical issue for preventing and responding effectively to displacement. Advocates may build on these provisions to ensure that the post-2015 framework is better attuned to the development dimensions of not only cross-border migration but also internal movements. With one in seven people around the world in what the International Organization for Migration (IOM) calls a “migratory state,” including refugees and IDPs, and remittances outstripping global rates of official development assistance, it should go without saying that people “on the move” are a critical constituency in the sustainable development process. However, neither refugees nor IDPs are explicitly addressed in any of the eight MDGs or their related targets and indicators. Since the MDGs are nonetheless directly relevant to the rights and wellbeing of the displaced, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has taken an active role in monitoring the inclusion of forced migrants in the pursuit of the MDGs, and progress in achieving the MDGs in communities affected by displacement. Yet UNHCR’s monitoring work has focused almost exclusively on refugees and asylum seekers, overlooking other key groups such as IDPs and returnees. Moving forward, concerted efforts will be needed to ensure that the new sustainable development goals take into account the development challenges and opportunities associated with both internal and international migration, including displacement, and that monitoring activities are expanded to cover IDPs and returnees. Important new initiatives are presently unfolding that underscore the critical link between displacement and development, including the piloting of the UN Secretary-General’s Framework on Ending Displacement in the Aftermath of Conflict (PDF) and the development of principles to protect those forced across borders because of disasters, particularly those associated with climate change. Building on this momentum, displacement should be better integrated into the post-2015 sustainable development framework, moving beyond the neglect of this issue that was one of the many failings of Rio+20.

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RIO+DEATH

Another sweltering summer, another sorry summit. I try to break it down, but it's already broken.

[greenafrica]

Extract of Mrs. Estherine Fotabong, the NEPAD Agency Head of Directorate for Programme Implementation and Coordination, participation to the High-Level side event of OECD on "Green Growth and Developing Countries" held at Rio+20 on 22 June 2012

more information on OECD work on Green Growth @oecd

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Rio+20

Focus On:

The Bloomberg New Energy Finance Climatescope initiative

On the 19th of June 2012, the “data folks” did well again: Bloomberg New Energy Finance BNEF disclosed Climatescope its new annual ranking and online tool that profiles the "investment climate for climate investment" in Latin America and the Caribbean LAC. The official launch of Climatescope established Brazil, Nicaragua and Panama as the top 3 LAC countries assessing their capability in building a green economy.

The initiative, jointly developed with MIF (Multilateral Investment Fund – member of Inter-American Development Bank Group), is aimed at drawing up a business index in LAC, through 30 indicators analyse. It highlights the importance of green policies that give green investors stability and predictability, encouraging private investment of green capital flows.

The demo made during the event showed an “extraordinary useful tool” to make the ranking of 26 countries according to 4 interrelated parameters (enabling framework; clean energy investment and climate financing; low-carbon business and clean energy value; green house gas management activities) supported by the various indicators developed by BNEF. As a result, all actors from policy makers to academics via entrepreneurs or users of clean energy can use the friendly interface offered by Climatescope and acquaint themselves with the inspiring case studies. Climatescope is available free of charge on the Internet at the following link: http://climatescope.fomin.org

Michael Liebreich, BNEF CEO, recalled that “in 2011 more than $260 billion have been invested in clean energy worldwide without including the large scale hydro projects”, out of the global total 10% went to Latin America, which is a continent richly endowed in natural capital. This report will contribute to help all stakeholders to find sustainable energy solutions in response to development issues. Will Africa be the next scoped continent? I hope so. 

Organized in the Gavea Golf Club in Rio de Janeiro, the presentation has been followed by a reception where the participants could play with the freshly released Climatescope tool on terminals put at their disposal.

Sarah Lawan From the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development UNCSD Rio+20