Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

The worlds scientists meeting at the excel in London 3000 of them to discuss input to rio+20. Planet Under Pressure will publish a  CO2 concentration is increasing in rate over the last ten years.  Caroline Speldman the UK Minister of Environment calls for Rio+20 to agree SD Goals, new GDP+ and action on agriculture.  Follow the negotiations for Rio+20 with Outreach the Stakeholder Forum newsletter Stakeholder Forum team at the UN working in the Vienna Cafe.

One Only Earth by Felix Dodds, Michael Strauss with Maurice Strong will be out end of May. The book looks at the history since Stockholm and the challenge on a number of key policy fronts. Published by Earthscan and worth reading by all those intending to go to Rio. New paper by Anabella Rosemberg of the IFTU on Green Jobs and Skills available from the Global Transition 2012 web site. Second Global Transition Dialogue for Rio+20 17th and 18th of March.