Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Rio+20 Earth summit: pressure for deal – but will leaders hold their nerve?

Guardian: Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff, is under pressure to salvage some ambition from the Rio+20 Earth Summit as more than 150 world leaders and ministers fly in to criticism that the negotiations on global sustainability have already hit a "dead end". The mega-conference is billed as a "once-in-a-generation" opportunity to balance economic development and environmental protection, but a week of no-shows and low progress have prompted fears that it will end not with a bang, but a whimper of photo...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jun/19/rio-earth-summit-sustainability-conference
Enclosure: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Environment/Pix/columnists/2012/6/13/1339589424207/Rio20--a-banner-at-the-en-008.jpg

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