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Africa Headlines
| 11 months ago
Unfortunately, many groups, including organizations that support reproductive health and women's rights, went home disappointed with the final outcome document, The Future We Want. In a statement released Sunday, the Women's Major Group (WMG) at Rio+...
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Chinadaily
| 11 months ago
Countries must cooperate to create a stable and sustaining international environment to promote the green economy The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, known as the Rio+20 Summit, was an important international conference that...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 11 months ago
Story continues below "I would argue that acceptance of the science is not widespread, either due to outright rejection or because while not rejected, it's not sufficiently internalised by key decision makers to practically influence their decision...
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Scoop
| 11 months ago
More than 100 world leaders gathered in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro Friday have put their stamp of approval on the new United Nations declaration on sustainable development, titled the 'Future We Want.' The approval came six hours after the...
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Indian Express
| 11 months ago
In plotting and leading this exercise, the Brazilian hosts succeeded in putting forth a declaration in which virtually every country or grouping can find its favourite shibboleth. Every dissenting voice finds reflection in an appropriate conditioning...
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Daily Nation
| 11 months ago
Rating Were George Orwell alive today, he would be irritated, and then shocked by the cynical way in which every lobby with an axe to grind and money to burn has hitched its wagon to the alluring phrase sustainable development. In fact, the United...
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The Economic Times
| 11 months ago
Nearly 40 countries, including Iran , China and Pakistan are expected to take part in the investment meet on Afghanistan to be held on Thursday to mobilise flow of private capital to the war-torn country. The meet--Delhi Investment Summit on...
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SF Gate
| 11 months ago
N.D. (AP) A conference highlighting North Dakota's renewable energy industry is slated in Bismarck on Monday. Organizers of the so-called Renewable Energy Action Summit say the daylong meeting at Bismarck State College will feature energy experts...
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Asia Times Online
| 11 months ago
The United Nations and the host country Brazil along with big business put a positive spin on the outcome of the conference, a follow-up to the 1992 Earth Summit, also hosted in Rio de Janeiro. It was another historic document that will change the...
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All Africa
| 11 months ago
According to Friends of the Earth International, the lack of political will from governments is rooted in the undue influence of corporations over governments and UN institutions. But pressure from civil society groups and movements and developing...
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All Africa
| 11 months ago
With the lack of vision coming from the conference, the UK commitment to help lead international work on the new Sustainable Development Goals which will determine the direction of global development from 2015 was a positive development. Conference...
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Africa Headlines
| 11 months ago
The Heads of State and Government, including the Republic of Angola, represented by the Vice President, Fernando Dias dos Santos, approved the final document entitled "The future we want", at the UN Summit on Sustainable Development, admitting that...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
As government prepares to unveil some measures to revive the economy, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says India cannot expect "outside help" on a scale which can see the country through its difficulties. "We have to raise our economy through our own...
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Africa Headlines
| 11 months ago
This follows the adoption of a draft Outcome Document that will also see developing countries seek domestic and alternative funding to meet the goals. A commission will also be established under the auspices of the UN to deal specifically with...
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Africa Headlines
| 11 months ago
In his speech at the plenary session of the ongoing UN Conference on "Sustainable Development", in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Friday, the President reaffirmed his administration's determination to create greater employment opportunities for Nigerians.
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Africa Headlines
| 11 months ago
He urged the Rio+20 Summit to focus on delivering on the means of implementation to drive the sustainable development agenda, noting that there were several critical gaps undermining the fulfilment of international commitments. "The Rio+20 Summit...
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Africa Headlines
| 11 months ago
Fernando da Piedade said so at the end of a visit paid to the Angolan stand in African pavilion that was created on the fringes of the Summit of Heads of State and Government on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), happening since Wednesday in Brazil.
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Africa Headlines
| 11 months ago
Mr Sata said in his address to the United Nations (UN) Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, that Zambia would ensure that sustainable development was implemented with the participation of its citizens. He said...
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Scoop
| 11 months ago
Governments are leaving the UN's Sustainable Development Summit (Rio +20) with a big deal but little action. Groups of civil society and business have proved they can lead the way towards a sustainable future...I'm pleased to see that nature based...
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Scoop
| 11 months ago
As the Rio+20 Summit has failed to agree upon appropriate actions and targets in the interest of future generations in Rio de Janeiro, the World Future Council is now calling on governments, parliaments, intergovernmental bodies, media and youth to...
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Scoop
| 11 months ago
Biofuelwatch attended and disrupted the event with placards and chants denouncing the green economy as the new face of corporate capital. "We took action at this event to underscore the fact that civil society efforts cannot focus solely on the...
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Scoop
| 11 months ago
Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) has said that the Ri+20 declaration encourages corporate pollution. The global body told AkanimoReports on Friday that the deal on the table at the Rio+20 Summit does nothing to address the environmental and...
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Scoop
| 11 months ago
The global trade union movement is bitterly disappointed at the Declaration of the Rio+20 Summit, a declaration that lacks the concrete measures necessary now to end senseless environmental destruction, drive investment into the green economy to...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 11 months ago
Green groups have criticised the summit's agreement because it only lays out broad aspirations for improving environmental protections. Ms Gillard says collective action is hard and global collective action is even harder, but there have been...
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Leader Post Online
| 11 months ago
The Canadian government was "very happy" after countries at a major environmental summit agreed that the world needed to transition into a "green economy," Environment Minister Peter Kent said Friday. Speaking to reporters on the last day of the...
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BBC
| 11 months ago
Rio summit ends with warning on corporate power Environment correspondent, BBC News, Rio de Janeiro Those activists who had demanded action on fossil fuel subsidies will be disappointed The UN sustainable development summit in Brazil has ended with...
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The Washington Times
| 11 months ago
The NGO Major Group Organizing Partners have finalized their key document for the Rio+20 Summit...Sustainable, sustainability and sustainable development appear in the text an astounding 390 times. Like abracadabra, these amorphous words are supposed...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
At the close of the Rio+20 Earth Summit , heads of state and ministers from more than 190 nations signed off on a plan to set global sustainable development goals and other measures to strengthen global environmental management, tighten protection...
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The Progressive
| 11 months ago
Subscribers can log in and access digital editions and our archive...Dubbed Rio+20, the conference was the largest UN summit ever held and marked the 20-year anniversary of the original Earth Summit also held in Rio. Attended by 50,000, the three-day...
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All Africa
| 11 months ago
European Union's Committee of the Regions (CoR) signed today a Memorandum of Understanding, signalling a new phase of cooperation between the two institutions. The agreement sets out a framework for strong cooperation with the shared goal of...
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Guardian Unlimited
| 11 months ago
Vanderlei Almeida/AFP/Getty Images This diary item comes with a health warning it will make you very, very depressed Friday June 22 08.30 You couldn't make it up. If you really want to understand why we are likely to implode as a civilisation, then...
