Saturday, June 23, 2012

Rio ends with corporates warning

BBC: The UN sustainable development summit in Brazil has ended with world leaders adopting a political declaration hammered out a few days previously. Environment and development charities say the Rio+20 agreement is too weak to tackle social and environmental crises. Gro Harlem Brundtland, author of a major UN sustainable development report 25 years ago, said corporate power was one reason for lack of progress. Nations will spend three years drawing up sustainable development goals. They...

URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18561223#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

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