The World Resources Institute and the British Embassy announced that they are launching a two-year partnership to measure corporate and farm-level emissions in Brazil. These sources account for nearly 20 percent of the country’s total emissions. The project, based on the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, will develop GHG accounting guidance for Brazilian agriculture.
A global 24-hour “Twitterstorm” kicked off today in hopes of increasing pressure on world leaders at the summit to cut nearly $1 trillion in fossil fuel subsidies. The Twitterstorm, which can be tracked at endfossilfuelsubsidies.org, is supported by a number of civil society organizations including Avaaz, Climate Reality Project, Earth Day Network, Friends of the Earth International, Greenpeace International and WWF. The global campaign Avaaz.org also will deliver a petition today to G20 leaders with 750,000 signatures, demanding action.
Meanwhile, 300 deans and representatives of business schools issued “The Rio Declaration on the Contribution of Higher Institutions and Management Schools to the Future We Want,” reaffirming their commitment and summarizing action taken to date to embed sustainable development as a core principle guiding society.
Last week, KPMG released a report that said a successful Rio+20 outcome for business would be to learn the direction governments will take to implement sustainability policies and then capitalize on sustainable business practices.
Photo courtesy of United Nations of Sha Zukang (center right), Secretary-General of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development. At centre left is Luiz Alberto Figueiredo Machado, Under-Secretary General for Environment, Energy, Science and Technology at the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations and Brazil’s chief Rio+20 negotiator.
