{"id":306,"date":"2011-10-27T14:43:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T14:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/?p=306"},"modified":"2016-03-10T14:05:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T14:05:42","slug":"dr-vijay-reddy-attends-the-united-nations-conference-on-green-economy-and-sustainable-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2011\/10\/27\/dr-vijay-reddy-attends-the-united-nations-conference-on-green-economy-and-sustainable-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Vijay Reddy attends the United Nations Conference on &#8216;Green Economy and Sustainable Development&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2011\/10\/Copy-of-DSC06615.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-366 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2011\/10\/Copy-of-DSC06615-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Dr Maharaj Vijay Reddy was invited to attend the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development&#8217;s conference on &#8216;Green Economy and Sustainable Development&#8217; at the European headquarters of the United Nations Office in Geneva UNOG (10-11 Oct 2011).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The aim of this\u00a0cutting-edge conference was to\u00a0debate and identify the sustainability\u00a0and green economy priorities and to prepare and shape subsequent social policy discussions before the\u00a0Rio+20 global summit\u00a0next year.<\/p>\n<p>The UNOG conference received invited attendees from different parts of the world from several international organisations (e.g. UNDESA, UNESCAP, UNEP, UNESCO, and UNDP), many national and international funding agencies (e.g. World Bank, DFID, AUSAid), research institutes and leading universities. Key areas covered in the discussions include: the Global Economic Crisis, Nature in the Market-World, The Social Dimensions of Carbon Trading, Economic Growth, Social Divides and Sustainable Development, Climate Change, Double Injustice and Social Policy, The Global Political Economy, Governance in Environmental Policy, Realizing Pro-Poor Development in the Carbon Commodity Chain, The Potential and Constraints on the Payment for Ecosystem Services Markets, Agriculture and Rural Development, An Institutional Analysis of Biofuel Policies and their Social Implications in Developing Countries, and Future Research and Directions for Rio+20.<\/p>\n<p>To\u00a0tackle these key global sustainability and climate change challenges, the United Nations is organising the next major world summit, the Rio+20 conference in 2012 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncsd2012.org\/rio20\/\">http:\/\/www.uncsd2012.org\/rio20\/<\/a>). It is expected that around 50000 participants\u00a0including the heads of many govenments, leading UN agencies and policy agencies will attend the forthcoming significant Rio+20 summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Maharaj Vijay Reddy was invited to attend the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development&#8217;s conference on &#8216;Green Economy and Sustainable Development&#8217; at the European headquarters of the United Nations Office in Geneva UNOG (10-11 Oct 2011).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The aim of this\u00a0cutting-edge conference was to\u00a0debate and identify the sustainability\u00a0and green economy priorities and to prepare and&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2011\/10\/27\/dr-vijay-reddy-attends-the-united-nations-conference-on-green-economy-and-sustainable-development\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Dr Vijay Reddy attends the United Nations Conference on &#8216;Green Economy and Sustainable Development&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":338,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,7],"tags":[135,143],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-research","tag-school-of-tourism","tag-tourism-management"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2831,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/2831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}