Planet Under Pressure, which ends today, is a big conference – not only in terms of the crowds of people here, but in the grand scale of the problems we’re…
PLANET UNDER PRESSURE: BEYOND SCIENCE?
PLANET UNDER PRESSURE: VIDEO HOPES FOR RIO+20
The journalist and author Fred Pearce, Oxfam campaigns and policy director Phil Bloomer and ESRC associate research director Paul Rouse are among those to tell us about their one big…
Press release: Rio+20 Must Radically Rethink Innovation (27 March 2012)
A radical new approach to innovation is urgently needed to ensure a fair and green economy and avoid reversing progress made on global poverty reduction, according to leading scientists at…
STEPS at PLANET UNDER PRESSURE
The STEPS Centre is mounting a variety of exciting activities at the Planet Under Pressure conference in London, this week (March 26-29): convening a key session, taking part in four…
STEPS at Planet Under Pressure
The STEPS Centre mounted a variety of activities at the Planet Under Pressure conference in London (March 26-29) from convening a key session to having an exhibition stand and holding…
WORLD WATER DAY: VIDEO HOPES FOR RIO+20
Ahead of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, we are asking academics, practitioners, policymakers and other stakeholders to tell us about the one sustainable development issue they would like to see addressed…
WORLD WATER FORUM 2012: ARE SUSTAINABILITY TARGETS THE NEXT GOAL?
By Phemo Kgomotso, IDS Phd Student The editors of the IDS Bulletin titled ‘Some for All? Politics and Pathways in Water and Sanitation’, Volume 43, No. 2, March 2012 launched…
WORLD WATER FORUM 2012: DECISION TIME?
By Jeremy Allouche There was a certain sense of excitement around the Forum and the slogan ‘a time for solutions’, set the tone. It’s time for post MDGs and Rio+20. As…
WORLD WATER FORUM 2012: WHO IS BUYING IN?
by Alan Nicol World Water Forum six is drawing to a close here in Marseille. Booths are emptying and participants are dwindling at the slightly drab Parc Chanot. The monolithic…
WORLD WATER FORUM 2012: DEBATES AND CONTRADICTIONS
By Lyla Mehta and Harriet Dudley This was our third World Water Forum, and compared with the other ones we’ve attended it was pretty tame, far more low-key and lacked…