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Final text of outcome document adopted

Rio de Janeiro, 20 June (Meena Raman) – The final draft of the outcome document for the Rio+20 Conference entitled the “Future We Want” was agreed to by all member states and adopted at referendumat a plenary session convened on Tuesday, June 19.   When Brazilian Foreign Minister, Antonio Patriota convened the final plenary of [...]

Rio+20 abandons the people, favours corporate growth

Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday, June 20, 2012 — The following is a statement from IBON International. As world leaders gather today to discuss a social, economic and environmental roadmap intended to address ecological degradation, they are holding a blueprint for the continued control and commodification of the world’s resources by a few for profits.   [...]

Certainly not for the future of the world’s peoples

By Rights for Sustainability At the 11th hour of the Rio+20 Summit where governments are expected to renew commitments and more for a genuinely sustainable development path translating to better lives for the world’s poor majority in a document entitled “The Future We Want”, the signposts indicate a virtual burial of the 1992 Rio principles [...]

From Rio

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