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Letters: Post-Rio call for mass people's movement and a green economy
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 11 months ago
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Letters Post-Rio call for mass people's movement and a green economy As George Monbiot indicates ( Comment , 25 June), the failure of the Rio+20 sustainable development conference to offer any real solutions is a disaster. As with the debacle at
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Rio+20: Reflections on the way forward for sustainable business
London :: United Kingdom | 11 months ago
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What is the way forward for progressive business in the wake of Rio+20? Photograph: Antonio Lacerda/EPA Multilateralism has failed, so what is the way forward post Rio +20? This is the question on most peoples' minds as the thousands of delegates,
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Africa: Rio+20 - the Elephant That Gave Birth to a Rat
Cape Town :: South Africa | 11 months ago
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The participating nations agreed on a 52-page document, which restated challenges and postponed major decisions into 2015. The past twenty years have made the results of the 1992 summit more significant than they originally were. During that summit,
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Erdan: No concrete outcome from Rio+20 summit
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 11 months ago
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Screenshot While pleased with the performance of the Israeli delegation at the two-week global sustainability summit, Environmental Protection Minister Gilad Erdan said he was disappointed that the conference itself had no concrete outcome. A 66-
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Nick Clegg defends Rio+20 summit
London :: United Kingdom | 11 months ago
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Mr Clegg told MPs the summit had not been "an unqualified success" but did show strong support for making economies greener. The summit, named Rio+20, took place 20 years after the iconic Earth Summit held in the same city. The results of the event
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Pulling together for the future
Shanghai :: China | 11 months ago
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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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Costa Rica's 'green economy' shows that money can grow on trees | Ina Porras
San José :: Costa Rica | 11 months ago
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Costa Rica's 'green economy' shows that money can grow on trees A creative approach to sustainable development includes paying for environmental resources, such as forests and water A boy jumps into the Llanos del Cortes waterfall in Bagaces. Payment
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Green economy as platitude
São Paulo :: Brazil | 11 months ago
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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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Africa: Inclusive Green Economy Given Go Ahead By Heads of State At Rio+20
Brussels :: Belgium | 11 months ago
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Heads of State and more than 190 nations gave the green light to a Green Economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication. Nations agreed that such a transition could be 'an important tool' when supported by policies that
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Rio+20, the unhappy environmental summit
Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | 11 months ago
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It was hard to find a happy soul at the end of the Rio+20 environmental summit. Not the legion of bleary-eyed government negotiators from 193 nations who met in a failed attempt to find a breakthrough at the United Nations
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