Senior legislators from the G8 countries and from Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and South Africa (the G8+5) will meet to politically test a draft Post 2012 Climate Change Framework developed by the Global Legislators Organization for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE). Tierramerica, the communication platform for environment and sustainable development of UNDP, UNEP and the WB, implemented by IPS, will be doing special coverage of the event. Read more »

The South-South Executive Brief features news stories, analyses and policy-level interviews focusing on increasing bilateral, trilateral, regional and inter-regional relations among developing countries. Read more »

July and August were two prolific months in terms of content creation for new web sites. We report the links of some of the new sites developed in collaboration between IPS World Service and the IT department.
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Mario Lubetkin, IPS Director General, travelled to Brazil from 26 to 27 June 2007 to attend a meeting organized by the Brazilian government in the frame of India-Brazil-South Africa Initiative (IBSA) and to give continuity to discussions held in Rio during IPS meetings in 2006 where possible ways of cooperation between IPS and IBSA were identified.
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In June the TerraViva team produced a 16-page newsletter in cooperation with NCDO (Netherlands) on the Millennium Development Goals for SID conference.
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