Parting Shots
Not to sound too cliché, but “think of the children!” Yesterday was the final day of negotiations. The text was adopted, but it was very weak. The opportunity to [more...]
Rio+20
Dress to Impress, Live by Example
UN summits are funny things. One of the more unusual things I noticed is the way people are dressed. Rio de Janiero at this time of the year is often in the mid-twenties and [more...]
Post Trauma
Worldwatch President Bob Engelman holds up a copy of our latest publication It’s taken a little while to fully decompress, but we seem to have all recovered well from [more...]
Eve of the Event
Copacabana beach by night So we’ve mostly adjusted to the time zone difference and the climate. Well, sort of. It just keeps getting hotter and hotter. On the morning [more...]
River of January
In transit in Lisbon, I came across an old Russian plane on the tarmac This is not the first time I’ve been to Rio. Five years ago, while undertaking an epic voyage [more...]