Policy makers must rethink economic growth, promote social equity and ensure environmental protection, says IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) at the United NationsConference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD).
Twenty years ago the world’s leaders did something tremendous. Meeting at the historic Earth summit in Rio, governments agreed that we must start living within our means. They saw that hoovering up or wrecking...
Diplomats from over 190 countries agreed on a draft text on green global development on Tuesday to be approved this week at a summit in Rio de Janeiro, but environmentalists complained the agreement was...
The draft agreement for the Rio+20 summit on sustainable development has been signed off by negotiators.
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) offers the world an important opportunity to both acknowledge, and benefit from the inextricable links between human health and sustainable development.
The UN Conference on Sustainable Development starts today in Rio de Janeiro. The meeting marks twenty years since the 1992 Earth Summit, when more than 108 heads of State agreed to work together to develop...
Environmental pressure groups have written off the Rio+20 summit beginning today as “pathetic” and a “colossal failure of leadership”.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 19 2012 (IPS) – Announced as an innovative way to encourage the participation of Internet users and the public in general in the debates at Rio+20, the proposal for Sustainable Development...
More than 150 world leaders and ministers kick off the Rio+20 Earth Summit on Wednesday amid widespread disappointment about the strategy they will adopt to put the global economy on a more sustainable path.
Rio de Janeiro – The Vice-president of the Republic, Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, arrived on Tuesday afternoon in Brazil, where he will attend the UN Summit on Sustainable Development dubbed “Rio+20”.
