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Eurozone crisis and US presidential race 'damaged Rio+20 prospects'
Oslo :: Norway | 12 months ago
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Adviser to Ban Ki-Moon and former Norway prime minister, Gro Harlem Brundtland, during a press conference at the Rio+20 summit. Photograph: Andre Durao/AFP/Getty Images Building a global consensus on sustainability is becoming increasingly difficult
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Rio+20 has Unilever but not Cameron – a sign of our unsustainable times | Jonathon Porritt
London :: United Kingdom | 12 months ago
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A host of national flags fly in Rio ahead of the Rio+20 Earth Summit. Photograph: Antonio Lacerda/EPA More than 100 world leaders will have descended on Rio this week to sign up to some kind of high-level communique currently being cobbled together
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Expect little from Rio Earth summit
London :: KY :: USA | 12 months ago
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Don't expect much from the Rio+20 Earth summit taking place in Brazil this week. Despite a dazzling display of more than 100 heads of state and 50,000 environmental activists, business leaders and policymakers, most analysts agree there will be much
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Development banks pledge $175bn for public transport at Rio+20
Beijing :: China | 12 months ago
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David Gray/Reuters The world's biggest development banks have made a fundamental investment shift from roads to public transport, under a $175bn (£111bn) initiative to promote buses, trains and cycle lanes that was unveiled on Wednesday at the Rio+20
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Big UN environmental summit opens in Rio
Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | 12 months ago
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Leaders from around the globe gathered Wednesday to open three days of talks at the United Nations conference on sustainable development, where a sober, unambitious mood prevailed as negotiators produced what critics called a watered-down document
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Climate change to increase hunger 20% by 2020
New York City :: NY :: USA | 12 months ago
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Climate change to worsen hunger as UN's Rio+20 begins Updated As leaders from more than 130 nations convene a United Nations conference on sustainable development Wednesday, new research shows how climate change will likely exacerbate a key issue:
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Rio 20 years later: Pollution up, forests down
Washington :: DC :: USA | 12 months ago
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Since world leaders last gathered in Rio de Janeiro to talk about the state of the Earth, temperatures have climbed and disasters have mounted. The average annual global temperature has increased 0.58 degrees Fahrenheit (0.32 degrees Celsius) since
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Rio+20: the Earth Summit diaries, Wednesday 20 June
London :: United Kingdom | 12 months ago
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the host city of the UN's Earth Summit Photograph: Marcelo Sayao/EPA Wednesday 20 June A tale of two conferences Wednesday June 20 07.30am Would businesses have a better chance of saving the world if they had more fun? Progressive companies have
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RIO+20: INDIGENOUS PEOPLE UNVEIL OWN SOLUTIONS
INDIGENOUS people from all over the world have come together at the Rio+20 global summit to put forward their own solutions for sustainable development. This is coming as government representatives start
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RIO+20: Battles won and lost
Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | 12 months ago
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The adoption of the controversial concept of a green economy was to have been the big story out of Rio+20, the UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It features in the final outcome document put together by the Brazilians to break the deadlock
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