Elaborated by PUC-Rio’s Rector, Fr. Josafá Carlos de Siqueira, S.J. and by the Interdisciplinary Center for the Environment’s (in Portuguese, NIMA) Director, Luiz Felipe Guanaes, the guide will be distributed during the WYD.

Environmental recovery as a main goal of agreement between institutions.
(photo by Paulo Henrique Rosa - Vice-Rector , priest Francisco Ivern simó, s.J., (R), and the Rector of Drexel University John Frey)

The Ambassador André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, chief negotiator of Brazil at Rio +20, was on Thursday, 10, in the PUC-Rio's RDC Auditorium. In addition to the ambassador, the seminar was attended by Father Josafá Carlos de Siqueira,S.J. Rector of PUC-RIO, Luiz Felipe Guanaes and Fernando Walcacer, Director and Deputy Director of NIMA respectively.

On June 18th through the 22nd, NIMA will be offering the course  in partnership with the Cardinal Paul Poupard Foundation.

PUC-Rio will host the international event Fair ideas, organized by IIED, which will take place on 16 and 17 June, shortly after the Forum for Science, Technology and Innovation, promoted by the International Council for Science (ICSU).

The need to focus on the ethical implications of actions or decisions relating to water access

The newspaper O Estado de São Paulo reported this Wendnesday, 18, an interview with Gisbert Glaser, the Senior Advisor of ICSU (The International Council for Science), the organization that will organize the Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development hosted in PUC-Rio, in June 11-15.

In 2012 the City of Rio de Janeiro will be the stage of one of the biggest events in international history, the Rio + 20.

In London, the Planet Under Pressure Conference shows us a little bit of how Rio+20 may looklike. Fonte: Jornal da PUC
PUC-Rio will host its 18th Environmental Week to be held on June from 4 to 6.
During the fourth and final day of "Planet Under Pressure" in London, adopted the "State of the Planet", a statement that brings together the thinking of experts on major global issues - environmental, economic and social. Fonte: Jornal da PUC
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