Tag Archives: sustainability
Evergreen Jobs: Sustainable Employment in Sustainable Sectors (By Michael Belinsky)
The creation of “green jobs” is a way to kill several birds with one stone – employment, energy, and the environment. Rio+20 certainly has the potential to further the dialogue around the creation of green jobs. For one, government regulation is a significant driver of green job creation. I saw this directly when working in […]
Rio+20 Is Around the Corner…And Everyone Needs To Do More
Rio+20 is coming up next week, and frankly, it’s not receiving nearly enough attention from Western policymakers. Today, Timothy E. Wirth, President of the Better World Fund and the United Nations Foundation and a member of the Secretary-General’s High-level Group on Sustainable Energy for All, wrote in the Huffington Post that “United Nations Secretary-General Ban […]
The Learning Curve: Can Brazil Compete in Renewable Research and Development? (By Eric Lonstein and Todd Wintner)
This is part three of a three-part series. For more, please refer to part one and part two. Besides building an industry through subsidization, another way to promote domestic growth in renewable energy is through R&D. Up to this point, leading R&D has not been a part of the Brazilian growth story. Even with domestic […]
Why Alternative Renewables: Is Solar a Pipedream? (By Eric Lonstein and Todd Wintner)
This is part two of a three-part series. To read part one, please click here. Perhaps a better question for understanding renewable energy development in Brazil — and particularly the future role of solar energy — is not the “how” but rather the “why” of this industrial policy. Why did a country with vast untapped, […]
The World In 1992 Is Not the Same As In 2012.
“The world in 1992 is not the same as in 2012. Each country will now have to bear responsibility for ensuring sustainability.” –European Commissioner for Environment Janez Potocnik
Harvard Students Talk Rio+20 