The 2011 report on the Millennium Development Goals has been published: provides essential context for understanding conservation of biodiversity in regions where poverty is a very serious concern. Summarises the lack of impact on forest loss, species loss, and refers to the 2020 targets. Useful lead up to Rio+20 next year.
Major conference planned for March 2012 in London - Planet Under Pressure - involving various ICSU organisations and UK science organisations. Part of the lead up to the UN Earth Summit in Rio in June 2012 - twenty years on from the first Rio Summit, and forty years after Stockholm. The NGO Stakeholder Forum on sustainable development also has a dedicated website giving information.
The British Science Association has developed Collective Memory - a website/database to enable activities in public engagement with science to be shared within the science engagement profession and more widely. This initiative has just started, so needs populating by practiioners.
Interesting working paper published by the LSE Grantham Institute entitled Scientific Uncertainty: a user's guide.
