Apply to be a Student Reporter at UNEP’s Post Rio Sustainable Consumption and...
From Rio to Bangkok! After making our mark at the United Nation’s Rio+20 Earth Summit in June, we will send a new team of five Student Reporters to cover UNEP’s Post Rio Sustainable and Consumption...
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Reinventing the Asian Tiger
The first day of the UNEP Switch-Asia Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) conference kicked off with all the requisite excitement and enthusiasm that all first days of conferences come...
View ArticleThe UNEP Asia SCP Legacy: “Now It is Time to Take Action”
Despite beginning the UNEP Switch-Asia Sustainable Consumption and Production conference with big picture, governance- and thematic-related discussions, the focus slowly narrowed in on the development...
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Reality Bites: Is the Era of Assumptions Coming to an End for Economists?
Source: Getty Images DSGE, IS/LM, OLG. If you are a follower of the dismal science, or have come across any news regarding economic modelling, these terms will be somewhat familiar to you. To the...
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Can Developing Asia Make The Switch?
In the restrooms of the Plaza Athénée in Bangkok, Thailand, where the UNEP Switch-Asia Conference on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) took place in November 2012, I noticed I had two...
View ArticleYoung Dreamers Take Action: New Ways of Financing and Capacity Building in...
There was a young face sitting at the panel in one of the sessions at the UNEP Sustainable Consumption and Production in Asia conference. With no name in the conference agenda or on the table, there...
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A Universal Diet – Can the Same Sustainable Development Plans Work for...
‘Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.’ William Ruckelshaus, the former Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, made this famous statement in...
View ArticleThe Path Not Taken: Following Unconventional Wisdom in Economics
Student Reporter Adam Wong interviewed Dr. Steve Keen, Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Western Sydney, on his new but controversial economic ideas in sustainability and economic...
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Asia to Take the Lead towards a Sustainable Future: Pipedream or a Possible...
Like many buzzwords, sustainable development can mean a variety of things depending on who is using it and how. A quick Google search (as well as asking experts) would reveal the same: the definitions...
View ArticleThe Many Roads to Our Common Future
At the UNEP Switch-Asia SCP conference in Bangkok, Thailand, Student Reporter Mas Dino Radin sat down with Dr Magnus Bengtsson, Director of Sustainable Consumption and Production Research at the...
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