AlertNet: World leaders, already struggling with tough economic times, will sit down in Rio next week to try to sort out a daunting array of other problems -- from how to deal with climate change and worsening scarcity of key resources like food and water, to how to make the world's economy less environmentally destructive and more effective for the world's poor. The Rio+20 sustainable development conference -- which comes 20 years after the 1992 Rio Earth Summit -- recognizes that the world's environmental,...
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