Rio+20 UN Convention on Sustainable Growth — World Points


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  1. Introduction
  2. Information tales from IPS

Introduction

Twenty years in the past on the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, international locations adopted Agenda 21 — a blueprint to rethink financial progress, advance social fairness and guarantee environmental safety.

Marking the twentieth anniversary of that convention (and the tenth anniversary of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Growth in Johannesburg), this June sees the UN organizing one other Convention on Sustainable Growth and is bringing collectively 1000’s of members from governments, the personal sector, NGOs and different teams, to agree on a spread of measures to cut back poverty, selling respectable jobs, clear vitality and a extra sustainable and truthful use of assets.

The Rio+20 Convention will embody Heads of State and Authorities or different representatives hoping to get an agreed and centered political doc.

Unsurprisingly getting governments to agree on this type of factor is stuffed with challenges to say the least, as many vested pursuits are concerned.

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Information tales from IPS

Beneath is a listing of tales from Inter Press Service associated to the convention

  1. Forty-5 Years Since Stockholm, Twenty-5 Years Because the Earth Summit and 5 Years Since Rio+20