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”.
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...
