by ljensen | Jun 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
At 2:30 am on Tuesday morning, the Brazilian delegation announced that the text had been finalized and would be presented in the coming hours. At midday, the plenary agreed on the text ad ref and we have now passed it on to our leaders for the forthcoming UNCSD. While...
by ljensen | Jun 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
Professor Ann Powers reports: The final “Brazilian” draft will serve as a basis for negotiations when the formal UN Conference on Sustainable Development begins tomorrow. Reactions from the stakeholders groups remain diverse. Pleas see the draft located...
by ljensen | Jun 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
Stanley Johnson of the Guardian quoted Professor Robinson at the World Congress on Justice, Law, and Environmental Sustainability in his recent blog entry: “Prof[essor] Nicholas Robinson, a former chairman of IUCN’s Commission on Environmental Law, said:...
by ljensen | Jun 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
Patrick Brosnan is a Pace Law 3L who took the UN Diplomacy Practicum course this spring and was asked by the UN Mission to Grenada to represent their views at Rio+20. His brief note: Made it safe and sound and jumped right into the action. On the bus ride here, I was...