Jun 18, 2012 | News
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...
Jun 15, 2012 | News
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...
Jun 5, 2012 | News
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...
May 9, 2012 | News
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...
May 8, 2012 | News
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...
Apr 1, 2012 | News
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...