News Archives
January 2008 | Washington DC and The Hague
A new Profits4Life initiative for 2008! Planet2025 Communities convert CO2 into things people need: Global Cooling, Bio fuels, Ecosystem Services, and Profits4Life. Stay tuned for further announcements about this collaboration with Trees for the Future and the Institute for Environmental Security.
Oct 6, 2007 | Washington DC
October 6 marked Ecological Debt day……the day when humanity began using more than the planet can provide in 2007. If trends continue, we’ll be using 2 planets by 2050, and yet we only have one planet Earth. Learn more about overshoot and participate in the
2007 Ecological Deb Day Video Contest watch the videos, and give your vote!
Oct 1, 2007 | The Netherlands
Fairfood Video Contest: Browse, Watch, and Vote Now!The Fairfood Video Contest is coming to an end: all entries are in! View around 30 films from teams who have tried their best to capture the Fairfood message - eat fair, beat hunger! - on 30 seconds of film in a positive, witty manner. Create your own account with Planet2025.tv (only takes 1 min), watch the videos, and give your vote!
Sept 30, 2007 | Washington DC
Just released: Accelerated Learning Pathways for Sustainable Development within International Context. This report, sponsored by the Dutch Program Learning for Sustainable Development, discusses the key trends and drivers that will strongly influence the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. Download: Summary(pdf) or Full Report (pdf)
Sept 2, 2007 | Washington DC
Planet2025.tv getting ready for fall contests about challenges and solutions for a globally sustainable lifestyle. Stay tuned! Visit our website and watch our introductory video clip to see what it is all about Planet2025.tv
May 31, 2007 | Washington DC
Share your vision, shape our future This is the motto of Planet2025.tv, the first social video networking website dedicated to solutions for a globally sustainable lifestyle. There is alway something new to see at strong>Planet2025.tv
Jan 8, 2007 | Washington DC
Winds of Change for the New Year A brand new year has started as more and more people, organizations and nations seem to be awaking to the fact that change is in the air - in more then one sense. See our New Year’message at Planet2025 News Network.
Spring, 2006 | Washington DC
Eco-insurance Initiative integrated into Planet2025 Network’s Sustainable Lifestyle Program.The Eco-insurance Initiative has resulted into the establishment of the Planet2025 Network, a non profit entity founded by an international group of leaders in sustainable development.
August 10, 2005 | Tokyo,
Global 100 Eco-Tech Awards Selected at 2005 World Expo. The technologies represent a collection of mankind’s efforts to overcome global environmental issues and to the creation of a sustainable future.
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August 1, 2005 | Chicago.
Towards a Wiser Future More than 30 outstanding essays cover a broad range of insightful forecasts, inspiring outlooks, and leading edge futuring techniques — Cynthia L. Wagner, Editor. Planetary Foresight and Strategy: Towards a Wiser Future includes an essay entitled Life-insurance for the Globe and describes the Eco-Insurance Initiative’s practical approach towards realization of a sustainable future. Read more
June 14, 2005 | At European Parliament.
Today, WWF and Global Footprint Network launched EUROPE 2005: The Ecological Footprint, a report showing that Europe uses 20 percent of the biosphere’s services to serve seven percent of the world’s population - a resource demand that has risen nearly 70 percent since 1961. Read more
March 2005 |
Authors of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment will release their findings and reports starting March 30, 2005 during press conferences at the Royal Society in London, the National Press Club in Washington, DC as well as in Tokyo, Beijing, New Delhi, Brasilia, Cairo, Nairobi and Rome. Read more
February 2005 |
State of the World 2005: Redefining Global Security. The Institute for Environmental Security organizes symposia at the Peace Palace in The Hague and the European Parliament in Brussels in cooperation with the Worldwatch Institute and others on February 28 and March 1st.
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January 2005 |
“Equal rights for all to the global commons, or shrink & share has to become the basis for a new global consensus” says Rt Hon. Hilary Benn MP UK Sec of State, DFID. Read more
December 2004 |
We can energize a successful transition to a sustainable future, if we use smart incentives to invest in our life-supporting ecosystems. Download two-page flyer version of eco-Insurance poster presented during the IUCN’ World Conservation Congress in Bangkok via this link.
November 2004 |
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November 2004 | Bangkok, Thailand
Going to Bangkok? Come and see during IUCN’s World Conservation
Congress for a Poster Display on November 18 -20 and a Knowledge
Marketplace Roundtable on November 20 from 17:00-19:00. Click here to download IISD’s summary report on the World Conservation Congress
October 2004 | Washington DC
New consultation paper for download: Risk Management for the 21st Century-Towards a Policy Framework for a Sustainable Future provides a target-based policy framework for pro-active management of risks to economic, environmental and human security.
Published by the Institute for Environmental Security. and the second in a series, the consultation paper resulted from active cooperation between the Eco-Insurance Initiative and the Global Footprint Network.
June 1, 2004 | The Hague The Netherlands
Introduction of financial mechanisms such as eco-insurance, listed as one of the recommendations in Pathways to Environmental Security, the Chairman’s Summary of the Proceedings of The Hague Conference on Environment, Security and Sustainable Development held May 9-12, 2004. Chairman’Summary (pdf).
May 1, 2004 | The Hague, The Netherlands
Eco-Insurance: Risk Management for the 21st Century is featured as one of the conference papers at The Hague Conference on Environment, Security and Sustainable Development to be held at the Peace Palace from May 9-12, 2004. The event will be attended by senior decision makers and representatives from governments, NGOs, development institutions, the private sector and academia. The Hague ESSD Conference Website
November 1, 2003 | Locarno, Switzerland
Eco-Insurance presented at Katoomba VI conference: Beyond Carbon - Emerging Markets for Ecosystems Services. The Katoomba Group is an international working group of experts dedicated to facilitating the launch of green forest products to the global market place.Katoomba/Forest Trends Website
October 23-25 | Yale University
The Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, in collaboration with the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, and the Heinrich Böll Foundation convened an international workshop on Global Environmental Governance: The Post-Johannesburg Agenda. Former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, who now directs the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization hosted the opening event. Eco-Insurance for a Sustainable Future formed part of the conferences preparatory materials and discussions. For more info see: GEG website
September 19, 2003 | The Hague
The Institute for Environmental Security announced the release of its Consultation Paper and Moderator’s Review of Eco-Insurance for a Sustainable Future: A Contribution to the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation. Copies of the document may be obtained in print and online via the Eco-Insurance Initiative website.
August 15, 2003 | The Hague
The Initiative receives co-financing for Eco-Insurance Phase II from The Netherlands Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment. This next phase of the initiative will further develop concept s and ideas introduced in Phase I with the goal to secure support from a growing number of launch partners
October 6, 2002 | The Hague
Eco-Insurance Phase I receives funding for preparation of Consultation Paper and Initial Consultations. The Institute for Environmental Security received confirmation that The Netherlands Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment will be co-financing Phase I of Eco-Insurance in a Sustainable Future.
August 15, 2002 | Johannesburg
Announcing Perspective on a Sustainable Future an event organized and co-sponsored by TransGlobal Ventures, the Netherlands Committee for IUCN, the Institute for Environmental Security and others to feature a presentation on Eco-Insurance as part of program.
June 1, 2002 | The Hague
Announcement of Public-Private Partnership in Eco-Insurance. The Institute for Environmental Security and TransGlobal Ventures, Inc. announced their joint intent to collaborate on the further development and implementation a new, innovative, market-based financing mechanism.