“On the Edge.” Photo source: ©© Nick Stenning
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It was hard to find a happy soul at the end of the Rio+20 environmental summit.
Government negotiators from 188 nations met and failed in an attempt to find a breakthrough at the United Nations conference on sustainable development.
In the end, this conference was a conference to decide to have more conferences…
Rio+20 Earth Summit: campaigners decry final document, Guardian UK
Amid doubt, disappointment and division, the world’s governments came together in Rio on Friday to declare “a pathway for a sustainable century”…
Rio summit ends with warning on corporate power, BBC
The UN sustainable development summit in Brazil has ended with world leaders adopting a political declaration hammered out a few days previously. Environment and development charities say the Rio+20 agreement is too weak to tackle social and environmental crises.
Progress on the Sidelines as Rio Conference Ends, The New York Times
Burdened by low expectations the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development ended here as it began, under a shroud of withering criticism.
