UN releases Rio+20 zero draft document

The United Nations has finally released the document which everyone in the Rio+20 queue has been waiting for -- the so-called "...

International Buy Nothing Day

Perhaps you managed to overcome the temptation to take advantage of all those great deals sweeping across the mass media in celebration of "Black Friday" -- the official launch of the...

UN NGO conference on Sustainable Societies,Responsive Citizens

At a UN NGO conference on Sustainable Societies held in Bonn, Germany on 3-5 September, responsive citizens discussed "connecting the dots" between local and global issues as part of the...

UN Under-Secretary General calls for US leadership on Rio+20

 On June 28, 2011, UN Under General Secretary Sha Zukang spoke at the National Press Club in...

Rio+20 co-chairs invite inputs for compilation document

This past March the co-chairs of the UNCSD Bureau prepared a "guidance note" for inputs from Member States and "other stakeholders" into a compilation document "to serve...

2010 Living Planet report: Alarm ringing for tropical biodiversity

Gland, Switzerland. WWF just released the new 2010 Living Planet report, which calls...

North American Roundtable launched at United Nations

In 2002 the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) reviewed progress that had been achieved in the decade since the UN Conference on Environment and Development (aka Earth Summit) in Rio...

UN Discussion on Sustainable Production and Consumption

At an event held on May 10 during the annual meeting of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, CitNet cosponsored a discussion on Sustainable Consumption and Production, one of...

North American Roundtable on Sustainable Production and Consumption

As part of ongoing efforts to build CitNet's relationship with the North American Sustainable Consumption Alliance (NASCA), the new ...

Share your views on progress towards sustainable production and consumption

The International Coalition for Sustainable Production and Consumption (ICSPAC) is now receiving input from sustainability practiioners, advocates, researchers and...