Saturday, June 16, 2012

Science can do more for sustainable development

SciDev.Net: The message from Rio+20 is for practical action to deliver existing targets. Scientists must identify and overcome barriers to change. Sha Zukang, secretary-general of Rio+20, held a press conference in Rio de Janeiro on 13 June, heralding the start of the final phase of negotiations at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development. He stressed that this meeting is fundamentally different to the first Earth Summit, held in Rio in 1992. Twenty years ago, the meeting produced a legally binding...

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