Saturday, June 23, 2012

Under-fire UN summit issues environment, poverty blueprint

Agence France-Presse: The biggest UN summit on sustainable development in a decade approved a strategy on Friday to haul more than a billion people out of poverty and cure the sickness of the biosphere. But critics branded the plan a cruel failure, saying it had been gutted of ambition by national interests. The gathering of 191 UN members crowned a 10-day forum marking 20 years since the Rio Earth Summit, where leaders vowed the world would live within its environmental means. In a sprawling 53-page statement,...

URL: http://news.yahoo.com/un-summit-approves-strategy-poverty-environment-034751793.html

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