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Report from CEM 4 and Innovation Showcase Pavilion New Delhi, 16-19 April, 2013
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Report by: “India One” Solar Thermal Power Plant Team
At the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change conference of parties in Copenhagen in December 2009, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced that USA would host the first Clean Energy Ministerial. The first CEM was organized in USA in 2010, followed by Abu Dhabi and UK. The fourth CEM was hosted by India from April’16th-18th 2013 at New Delhi.
One of the exhibitors invited to participate in the Innovation Showcase Pavilion was Brahma Kumaris and World Renewal Spiritual Trust featuring “India One” Solar Thermal Power Plant Project.
Earth Day 2013
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To celebrate Earth Day 2013, there was a special program on Thoughts, Time and Nature at the Brahma Kumaris Meditation Centre and Gallery in Manhattan, New York. The subject was Sustainable Yogic Agriculture. Dr Tamasin Ramsay, environmental anthropologist and NGO Representative to the United Nations, introduced the SYA project to a full and engaged audience.
Watch “Be Bold”: Spiritual leaders in Rio+20
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The second video is now available about the spiritual leaders:
“Be Bold”:
Global Peace Initiative of Women (GPIW) invited spiritual leaders from all over the world to Rio in June 2012 as part of the Rio + 20 conference on the global environment.
"Tapping inner Resources for the Transformation of the Global Economy" was the theme.
Meeting with Mr Peter Kenmore, FAO
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Meeting with Mr Peter Kenmore, Food and Agriculture Organization’s Representative to India (FAO)
On 26 February 2013, a delegation from the Brahma Kumaris visited the FAO Representative in India, Mr Peter Erwin Kenmore in his office in the United Nations compound in New Delhi.
Human Rights and Climate Change
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Human Rights and Climate Change
Meeting in Room XXIV
24 February 2013
13:00-15:00
North South XXI, Brahma Kumaris, the World Council of
Churches (WCC) and Franciscans can co-sponsor