{"id":785,"date":"2011-10-26T11:42:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T11:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/2011\/10\/26\/cameron-fail\/"},"modified":"2011-10-26T11:42:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T11:42:17","slug":"cameron-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/cameron-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"David Cameron to miss Rio+20 earth summit for Jubilee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister David Cameron will not be going to the Rio+20 Summit in Brazil next year despite his pledge to lead the &#8220;greenest ever government&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The meeting will mark 20 years since the seminal Earth Summit of 1992, and is regarded as a chance for leaders to put humanity on a sustainable track.<\/p>\n<p>But the June date clashes with the Queen&#8217;s Diamond Jubilee.<\/p>\n<p>The clash raises the question of whether other Commonwealth heads of government will also stay away.<\/p>\n<p>Protocol would be likely to demand the presence of the 54 countries&#8217; leaders in London.<\/p>\n<p>The Jubilee celebrations run 2-5 June, and the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncsd2012.org\/rio20\/\">Earth Summit<\/a> 4-6 June; so leaders could theoretically pay their respects in London before heading to Rio for the summit&#8217;s final day.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Cameron will not, a Downing Street spokeswoman told BBC News.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman will lead the UK delegation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a shame Mr Cameron is not going,&#8221; said Felix Dodds, director of Stakeholder Forum, which is playing a leading role in preparations for the summit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would be important for the British government to show leadership at the highest level in Rio, and we&#8217;d hope he&#8217;d show leadership by coming to the final preparatory conference the week before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To read the article in full click <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-15450273\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister David Cameron will not be going to the Rio+20 Summit in Brazil next year despite his pledge to lead the &#8220;greenest ever government&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}