The World Conservation Strategy was published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in 1980.
The World Conservation Strategy
Environmental Partnership for Sustainable Development founded
Founded in 1991 as a response to the dramatic political changes in the region, the Environmental Partnership for Central Europe (as it was first called) initially aimed to identify key…
ERIK MILLSTONE ON FOOD SECURITY IN THE SUNDAY TIMES
Two days ago the Sunday Times carried a briefing on “Environment, Sustainability and the Food Supply Challenge”. The supplement includes an interview with Erik Millstone, STEPS Centre Food and Agriculture…
The First Image of Earth from Space
“Earthrise, December 1968 – the first picture of our world taken from space was published 40 years ago this week and still retains its haunting power”
Documentary film ‘An Inconvenient Truth’
‘An Inconvenient Truth’ is a documentary film about passionate and inspirational former U.S. Vice President Al Gore’s campaign to educate people about global warming.
OECD: Achieving the Successful Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies
The paper states that in order to successfully transfer environmentally sound technologies, much has to be done both by the developed and developing countries. For example, the paper suggests that…
“Our Common Future” UN Brundtland Commission Report
The first internationally commissioned document to declare issues of environmental concern and human development as an ‘interlocking crises’. Following from the UN Conference on the Human Environment, the report highlighted…
COP15: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
A month after the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, and the disappointment and frustration that many participants and observers around the world felt is still raw. Our colleague Fatema Rajabali…
STEPS SYMPOSIUM: REALITY CHECK
By Katharina Welle, STEPS Centre PhD student The New Manifesto, presented by Adrian Ely on day one of the STEPS Centre Symposium, argues for three crucial shifts in thinking about…
STEPS SYMPOSIUM: MULTIMEDIA
By Julia Day We had a great Symposium last week, with an engaged audience who were game enough to participate in some video interviews, answering one question: “If you had…