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Here you can find all the latest updates in relation to Earth Summit 2012, as well as archived news.

Barack Obama skips Rio+20 Earth summit

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14 June 2012
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Barack Obama will skip a United Nations summit billed as a "once-in-a-generation opportunity" to make progress on global development, sending Hillary Clinton in his place.

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David Cameron criticised for skipping Rio+20 Earth summit

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13 June 2012
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PM sending wrong signal that sustainable development is not a priority for UK, say environment groups

The chair of an influential group of MPs lambasted David Cameron on Monday for not going to next week's Rio+20 Earth summit, saying it sent a signal to the world that Britain does not see sustainability as a priority and that the PM is not showing global leadership.

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Rio+20: Moving Ahead With the Sustainable Development Goals

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12 June 2012
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As the global summit in Rio approaches, negotiations are still in flux, but some ideas that could advance the global sustainability agenda are gaining momentum.

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Why Rio failed in the past and how it can succeed this time

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12 June 2012
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As world leaders prepare for the Rio+20 meeting in just over a week, now is a fitting moment to assess the true legacy of the original Earth Summit in 1992.

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Green Room: Will Rio +20 make a difference?

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11 June 2012
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Between 20-22 June, world leaders will join thousands of delegates, business leaders and NGOs at the decade-in-the-making Rio +20 summit.

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David Cameron criticised for skipping Rio+20 Earth summit

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11 June 2012
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The chair of an influential group of MPs lambasted David Cameron on Monday for not going to next week's Rio+20 Earth summit, saying it sent a signal to the world that Britain does not see sustainability as a priority and that the PM is not showing global leadership.

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“Only One Earth: The Long Road via Rio to Sustainable Development”-Now available as an E-book

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By Felix Dodds and Michael Strauss with Maurice F. Strong
Routledge Publishing, June 2012

One_EarthNew book Only One Earth looks back over what has been achieved in the past forty years since the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, and ahead to what critically needs to happen at Rio+20 and beyond.  Written by Stakeholder Forum’s Executive Director, Felix Dodds, and Earthmedia’s Michael Strauss, with Maurice F. Strong, Former Secretary-General, “Earth Summit” [1992]; UN Conference on Human Environment [1972] and Executive Director, UNEP [1972-76].

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Speak up for children at Rio+20 Earth summit

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08 June 2012
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Rachel Hall was part of a Unicef UK group that prepared a list of priorities that young people want to be taken up at the summit. She explains what they expect from world leaders.

Like many young people, I take the things most politicians say with a large pinch of salt. But I was genuine impressed by Caroline Spelman, the secretary of state for environment, when I met her on Thursday. I believed her when she pledged to speak for children at the Rio+20 Earth summit this month.

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