On Earth Day, citizens launch a two-year campaign with a petition calling on the President to produce a long-term strategy targeting social and environmental crises.
Join us in spreading the news! In response to your helpful suggestions and after many days and nights of dedicated effort, we are pleased to present on this World Environment Day the new website for the Citizens Network for Sustainable Development. Note that this website is a collective work-in-progress -- there is a lot of information which is waiting for your help to get posted here.
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 de Janeiro.
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 the topics on the agenda for this year.
The International Coalition for Sustainable Production and Consumption (ICSPAC) is now receiving input from sustainability practiioners, advocates, researchers and decision-makers on their views and ideas about current global progress towards sustainable production and consumption.
Washington, DC. A number of civil society representatives met in Washington today with members of the US government delegation to the upcoming 18th session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, discussing why and how US citizens can learn about and engage in the process.
Twelve organizations, including CitNet, sent a letter to President Obama requesting enthusiastic support for the UN proposal to hold an Earth Summit in Brazil in 2012.
