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Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development — Global Issues


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  • by Anup Shah
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  1. Introduction
  2. News tales from IPS

Introduction

Twenty years in the past on the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, international locations adopted Agenda 21 — a blueprint to rethink financial progress, advance social fairness and guarantee environmental safety.

Marking the twentieth anniversary of that convention (and the tenth anniversary of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg), this June sees the UN organizing one other Conference on Sustainable Development and is bringing collectively 1000’s of members from governments, the non-public sector, NGOs and different teams, to agree on a variety of measures to cut back poverty, selling respectable jobs, clear vitality and a extra sustainable and honest use of sources.

The Rio+20 Conference will embrace Heads of State and Government or different representatives hoping to get an agreed and targeted political doc.

Unsurprisingly getting governments to agree on this sort of factor is stuffed with challenges to say the least, as many vested pursuits are concerned.

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News tales from IPS

Below is an inventory of tales from Inter Press Service associated to the convention

  1. Forty-Five Years Since Stockholm, Twenty-Five Years Since the Earth Summit and Five Years Since Rio+20