Friday, June 22, 2012

Eurozone crisis and US presidential race 'damaged Rio+20 prospects'

Guardian: Building a global consensus on sustainability is becoming increasingly difficult as a result of economic crises and a US political climate that is increasingly hostile to action on climate change, according to Gro Harlem Brundtland, one of the chief architects of the first Rio Earth summit in 1992. The former Norwegian prime minister lamented the absence of Barack Obama, David Cameron and many other leaders from the follow-up Rio+20 conference currently taking place in Brazil, but said they faced...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jun/21/eurozone-crisis-us-election-rio-20
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