Climate-Battered South Asia Looks to Rio+20 Formula

Inter Press Service: Far-flung South Asian communities, from the high Himalayan slopes to the Indian Ocean coasts, united in the face of extreme and uncertain weather, continue to hold out hope that the Rio+20 focus on disaster risk reduction (DRR) will positively influence national policies. "There is hope in India, the biggest country in the region, that the final statement at the Rio+20 summit titled "˜The Future We Want' gets translated into national policy before it is too late," Vinod Chandra Menon, former...

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