Rio+20 talks ‘very helpful’ for UN climate talks – Figueres

Environmental Finance: Sustainable development talks at next month's Rio+20 summit are set to be "very helpful" for the UN climate change negotiations, said Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Speaking to reporters on Monday as the latest round of climate talks began in Bonn, Germany, Figueres said that the meeting in Brazil -- taking place 20 years after the original Earth Summit, where the UNFCCC was drawn up, among other things -- is being watched closely...

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