Sustainable development

Inside and outside the World Water Forum

I am in Marseille, France this week, home to some of the biggest water multinationals, to participate in two parallel events on water in a resource-constrained world.

Green Economy: Commoditization of the Commons

Summary

New book provides blueprint for more just trade system

A new book highlights the need for a fundamental reshaping of international trade and investment rules to put human rights, particularly the right to adequate food, at the centre of economic and development policy.

A New Energy Utility Takes on Climate Change

As Congress debates a U.S. climate bill this fall, and governments around the world are focused on global climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December, a new community-based approach to addressing climate change is taking hold.

New Center to be Built With Trees Planted by Aldo Leopold

IATP press release announcing harvest of Aldo Leopold planted trees to build a new center. IATP is advising on the harvest.

New Book Features Agrarian Landscapes in North America and Europe

A new book looks at farm landscapes across Europe and North America emphasizing the beauty and benefits of these regions while highlighting common challenges and solutions shared by the two continents.

Dialogue of the Deaf

This article by Shiney Varghese was published on October 4, 2002 by FIVAS/Foreningen for Internasjonale Vannstudier  

US Unilateralism: A Threat to Global Sustainability?

More than 200 non-governmental organizations and individuals from dozens of countries around the world signed a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright expressing "concern at the manner in which the United States government is intervening in the domestic affairs of numerous other nations regarding their intellectual property laws".

Marrakesh Proposals for Sustainable Trade

In 1994 IATP and IATP Board Member Steve Shrybman from the Canadian Environmental Law Association drafted the “Marrakesh Proposals for Sustainable Trade”. This was a set of formal definitions for an international agreement linking environmental policy with trade organizations.

Rendering Rio Moot: Trade Policy at the Earth Summit

  The 1992 United Nations Conference for Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the Earth Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, was the first of the large international conferences focused on the global environment.