Innovative sources of finance and resources from the private sector are key to achieving sustainable development in Africa, African leaders and world experts said yesterday at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or...
More than 190 countries are gathered in Rio for the largest ever United Nations summit on the environment.
Negotiators have agreed a text to be approved by world leaders meeting this week in Rio to consider the worsening state of the global environment. The Rio+20 gathering comes 20 years after the Earth...
Twenty years after trying and failing to halt humanity’s destruction of our planet, the governments of the world will gather again in Rio this month for a “once-in-a-generation” Earth Summit that will open with great...
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), June 17 (Xinhua-ANI): China will make joint efforts with relevant parties to achieve comprehensive, positive and pragmatic results at the upcoming United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20 summit), a...
World leaders need to recognise the importance of the environment in tackling the problems facing the global economy, campaigners urged today.
A CLOUD of doubt has formed over the Rio+20 Earth Summit after countries failed to agree on acceptable language just two weeks before 120 world leaders arrive at the biggest United Nations event of...
The Brazilian government is giving poor nations from Africa and the Caribbean a free air lift to boost attendance at the United Nations conference on sustainable development that it is hostingin Rio de Janeiro.
Forty years ago, the world’s leaders met to discuss our perilous dependency on a stressed global environment. In Stockholm then, as in Rio now, innovation was key. But at Rio+20, negotiators need to look...
By their own admission, it is an “extraordinary” group of leaders from across business, NGOs, trade unions and science that have come together to find a new path towards sustainable development. But then again,...
