Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Scientists give world leaders 'Fs' on climate change, biodiversity, and desertification

Mongabay: It seems world leaders may need to retake environmental studies. As the Rio+20 Summit on Sustainable Development opens, the scientific journal, Nature, has evaluated the progress made on three treaties signed at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992: climate change, biodiversity decline, and desertification. Unfortunately the publication gives progress on all three treaties an 'F', highlighting how little progress has been made on the global environmental crisis. Nature point out that world leaders have...

URL: http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0619-hance-rio20-reportcard.html
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