Dear friends and colleagues, Thank you all for the positive and valuable comments on the project idea SVS. I am happy to work with you all! Special thanks go to Abdesh for providing us with the link to CEE, and also to Detlev for his Leonoardo-application which may serve as a guide for us. Welcome to Niels who may help us linking with RCE Kakamega. I shall be reading your documents with great interest the upcoming days. Please find enclosed the updated project file on SVS (7 December) with quite some adaptations when compared with the last one.

It is a pleasure to welcome you to the Cross-continental/Inter-RCE Collaboration session at the 8th Global RCE Conference. At the conclusion of the session, we should come up with several action points that we would like to report to the plenary session. Please share your thoughts below!

Facilitators: Mario Tabucanon & Ranjana Saikia (RCE Delhi)

It is a pleasure to welcome you to Engagement with International SD/ESD Processes session at the 8th Global RCE Conference. At the conclusion of the session, we should come up with several action points that we would like to report to the plenary session. Please share your thoughts below.

Facilitator: Mario Tabucanon & Marlene Mader (RCE Graz-Styria)

Welcome to the 2013 Global RCE Conference Communications and Outreach Discussion Group! Please join in the pre-conference discussions today by sharing your thoughts on the topics you feel most need to be addressed in the group meeting during the Global Conference in Nairobi.

This is a forum for anyone interested in sharing their travel, tourism or other personal plans around the conference. Hopefully it will provide an opportunity for people to perhaps form wider groups to see more of the country.

More than 50 people are already confirmed dead following a maritime collision between a ferry and a cargo ship off the central port of Cebu in the Philippines. In addition to the tragic loss of life, there is an impending environmental disaster looming as oil spills from the ships as a result of the collision. RCE Cebu is working diligently to help prevent further damage to the environment and they are urgently seeking advice from the RCE community and its partners for how best to cope with the spreading oil problem.

As the end of the Decade rapidly approaches and preparations for key meetings and celebrations gather pace, the RCE community is encouraged to recognise – and to take – the unique opportunity presented: we are invited to engage fully in the tasks necessary to make the outcomes of the events count. For we are celebrating not only the end of the (first) Decade, but – and arguably more importantly – consolidating our foundations for the next.

Welcome to the 2013 Global RCE Conference Governance and Coordination Discussion Group! Please join in the pre-conference discussions today by sharing your thoughts on the topics you feel most need to be addressed in the group meeting during the Global Conference in Nairobi.