The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) in June 2012—commonly referred to as Rio+20—left many perplexed. If a number of advances were made, the results fell well short of what
The Earth Summit was a historical opportunity to set the world on the correct development trajectory. Negotiators from 191 countries came together to chart a road map for sustainable development and poverty
The significance of Rio+ 20 does not lie in any document but in the new direction provided to global governance, with Brazil, China and India shaping the global agenda. Not surprisingly, heads of state
Rio in 1992 is where a divisive world started coming together to save a planet crumbling under its own weight. After 20 years of more words than action, when the world assembled there again, not much had
At Rio+20, the developing world reclaimed lost ground, but nobody committed to credible action A major feature of the “The Future We Want” final declaration adopted by the the Rio+20 Summit on June 23
NewDelhi:One-third of food produced globally every year does not reach human mouths – it is either lost in transit or wasted by consumers themselves. This amounts to a staggering 1.3 billion tonnes every
The recently concluded Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Brazil has led to the inception of the Rio+20 India programme. The Indian Astrobiology Research Centre (IARC) is spearheading
Why India protested the green economy agenda proposed by developed countries at Rio+20 Rio de Janeiro: The just concluded Rio+20 summit was dominated by the buzzwords ‘green economy’ and ‘natural capital
A lot of high-flown rhetoric ushered in last week's UN Conference on Sustainable Development. Rio+20 was the biggest summit the UN had ever organised. Some 40,000 environmentalists and 10,000 government
The largest United Nations conference in history is happening now in Brazil. Rio+20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, is assembling over 50,000 people and more than 130 heads of state and
