| Blue Planet Prize-Winners Advise Rio +20 | 24 February 12 |
The twenty past winners of the Blue Planet Prize, often called the Nobel Prize for the environment, presented a report, Environmental and Development Challenges: The Imperative to Act, at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) meeting in Nairobi, Kenya February 20, 2012.The stark assessment of the current global outlook commissioned by UNEP was prepared by agroup, that includes: Sir Bob Watson, United Kingdom chief scientific adviser on environmental issues; US climate scientist James Hansen; Prof José Goldemberg, Brazil's secretary of environment during the 1992 Rio Earth Summit; and Stanford University Prof Paul Ehrlich.. The report will feed into texts for the Rio +20 Earth Summit conference June 2012. The report warns against over-reliance on markets and urges politicians to listen and learn from how poor communities all over the world see the problems of energy, water, food and livelihoods as interdependent and integrated as part of a living ecosystem. View February 17, 2012 Blue Planet Laureate reportView February 21, 2012 Inter Press Service article View February 20, 2012 Guardian article View February 20, 2012 Common Dreams article View February 20, 2012 Business Green article View February 11, 2012 UNEP news article View Manitoba Wildlands Earth Summit page Sources:
Guardian, UNEP
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