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http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/joe-ware/world-environment-day-rio_b_1559193.html

by Joe Ware

With the global economy still in the doldrums, this year's World Environment Day on 5 June is trumpeting the merits of the Green Economy as an alternative way of creating jobs and growth - without trashing the planet.

It also takes place 15 days before the snappily-titled Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, which kicks off in Brazil's most famous party town.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=42069

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged countries to seize the opportunity provided by the upcoming United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) to set the world on a path towards a sustainable future, stressing that collective power in the form of partnerships will be crucial to address the challenges the planet is facing.

http://www.thegef.org/gef/greenline/april-2012/why-rio20-will-succeed

By Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca

The global environmental agenda overflows with meetings. According to unofficial estimates, formal conferences on biodiversity, climate change, and desertification consume more than 240 days per year. Taking other environmental conventions into account, there are fewer days in a year than there are meetings to attend. The world has grown weary of slow-moving negotiations that lag further and further behind the mounting environmental problems they are intended to solve. Our growing understanding of the linkages between environmental and economic progress only makes this trend more worrisome for developed and developing countries alike.

http://www.transport2012.org/bridging/ressources/documents/2/1758,Transport-Events-at-Climate-Change-.pdf

Bridging the gap: Pathways for transport in the post-2012 process.

The initiative "Bridging the Gap: Pathways for Transport in a Post 2012 process" is comprised of GIZ, TRL, Veolia Transdev, ITDP and UITP. The initiative was formed at COP14 in Poznan to encourage international recognition that land transport should play a more important role addressing climate change in the post 2012 agreement and to bridge the gap between this sector and climate policy. The value of the work of the initiative is reinforced by the positive feedback from workshops, a large number of subscribers to our newsletter and the large amount of traffic to our website (www.transport2012.org) as well as the numerous visitors at the stands in Barcelona, Copenhagen, Bonn, Tianjin and Cancun.