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,...
BEIJING — China said Monday wealthy countries should take the lead in tackling climate change, repeating its long-held stance ahead of a global UN summit on poverty and the environment in Rio de Janeiro.
RIO DE JANEIRO, 14 June 2012 (IRIN) – “The pace is too slow” and “there is a lack of urgency”, grumbled a negotiator as preparatory talks on the final political outcome document limped back...
More than 100 science academies around the world have called on world leaders to take action on population and consumption at the Rio+20 summit.
The Rio+20 Earth summit must take decisive action on population and consumption regardless of political taboos or it will struggle to tackle the alarming decline of the global environment, the world’s leading scientific academies warned on...
