By Julia Day Delegates arrived today slightly weary from a week of networking (or last evening’s Royal Banquet festivities with Sweden’s Orlando Bloom-alike Prince). Nonetheless it is a good turnout…
WORLD WATER WEEK, FRI: WATER ACROSS BORDERS
WORLD WATER WEEK, THURS: TOWARDS COP-15
By Julia Day It is the turn of the big-hitters this afternoon, with a panel made up of water Ministers from around the world. They were tasked with revealing how…
WORLD WATER WEEK: PHOTOS
Have a look at some of our photos from World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden.
WORLD WATER WEEK – THURSDAY – WATER & CLIMATE
By Julia Day Despite being organised to within an inch of its life here at the Stockholmsmassan conference centre, World Water Week’s morning sessions are already running behind. Has there…
WORLD WATER WEEK, STOCKHOLM
By Julia Day Here in the Swedish capital of Stockholm the 19th annual World Water Week is in full swing. Having only arrived this evening, there is a lot to…
UNCTAD established & UNCTAD-I Geneva
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) established; and first conference, UNCTAD-I, convened in Geneva
UN Vienna Conference on S&T for Development
The United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development (UNCSTD) held in Vienna involved years of preparation, regional meetings and significant participation by NGOs, and resulted in several new commitments and institutions. The conference recognised the complexity of directing science and technology toward development goals, and followed growing tensions between the G77 and Group B on negotiating terms of trade, technology transfer, and the broader efforts toward a ‘New International Economic Order’ – highlighting concerns of equity in international relations.
NATURE ARTICLE ON GM FROM STEPS
Ian Scoones, co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre and Dominic Glover of the Technology and Agrarian Development Group at Wageningen University have written an article in this week’s Nature magazine…
NEW PROJECT: BEYOND BIOSAFETY
By Julia Day, STEPS Centre member The STEPS Centre is launching a new pilot project, Beyond Biosafety, aimed at opening up debates about biosafety. The project focusses on Kenya and…
UN First Development Decade
The UN General Assembly passed Resolution 1710 (XVI) to establish the 1960s as the United Nations Development Decade, which called on “Member States and their peoples [to] intensify their efforts to mobilize and to sustain support for the measures required on the part of both developed and developing countries to accelerate progress towards self-sustaining growth of the economy of the individual nations and their social advancement.”