Rio + 20 Earth Summit

On June 20-22, 2012, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) will hold a global Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, marking two decades of official international action on sustainable development. According to...

IfE at Rio+20

In the run-up to the Rio+20 Summit, civil society organizations arranged activities and events to ensure that people across the world would have a voice at the Summit. Read about the June 2012 Rio+20 People’s Summit on their website here.   IfE coordinated...

Equity Treaty Finalized

The global Equity Treaty Circle convened by IfE has just released the People’s Sustainability Treaty on Equity, to be presented as input to the Rio+20 Earth Summit. You are invited to sign the Equity Treaty as an individual, organization, institution or...

Field Hearings on the Front Burner

On the front burner right now are IfE’s local Equity & Sustainability Field Hearings. These Field Hearings (interviews, focus groups and public meetings) are being conducted by 38 academic and civil society partners from across Asia and Africa. We are gathering...

Equity Treaty Zero Draft Released

IfE  has convened a global Equity Treaty Circle to facilitate the negotiation of a People’s Sustainability Treaty on  Equity by civil society groups and individuals around the world. The Equity Treaty will be finalized at the People’s Summit in Rio, June 2012, and...

IfE’s Equity Treaty and Field Hearings Top Priority

IfE’s top priorities right now are the global Equity Treaty and the local Equity & Sustainability Field Hearings. The Equity Treaty, convened by IfE and involving organizations from each continent, will facilitate a broad-based civil society dialogue on how equity...