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Rio: UN summit approves strategy on poverty, environment
The biggest UN summit on sustainable development in a decade approved a strategy to haul more than a billion people out poverty and cure the sickness of the biosphere. But critics branded the plan a cruel failure, saying it had been gutted of ambition by national interests. “It’s a demonstration…
World leaders weigh ‘green’ economy at Rio summit
World leaders attending a UN summit in Rio weighed steps to root out poverty and protect the environment as thousands of activists marched through the city center in protest. UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned that “time is not on our side” for fixing a mounting list of problems as he…
Activists stage colorful anti-Rio+20 demo in central Rio
RIO DE JANEIRO — With placards, balloons and chain saws, thousands of militants staged a good-natured and colorful protest in central Rio Wednesday against the UN Rio+20 summit on a ‘green’ economy. The march drew environmentalists, workers, civil servants, black militants, homosexuals, indigenous peoples and feminists on the day world…
CEOs pledge sustainability, urge ‘green revolution’
RIO DE JANEIRO — Business leaders gathered at a Rio+20 conference Monday pledged sustainable policies and joined a call for world leaders to usher in “a green industrial revolution” to save the planet. Two days before a UN summit on sustainable development opens here, 1,200 CEOs wrapped up a four-day…
Environmentalists fear watered-down deal from Rio summit
By Richard Ingham (AFP) – 1 hour ago RIO DE JANEIRO — Activists voiced fears on Sunday that a master plan to cure the world’s sick environment and end entrenched poverty was being undermined by time pressures at the UN’s “Rio+20″ talks. Brazil on Saturday took over efforts to forge…
World Social Forum calls for global anti-corporate protest in June
By Yana Marull PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil — Thousands of critics of capitalism meeting in Brazil called Sunday for a worldwide protest in June to press for concrete steps to tackle the global economic crisis. The World Social Forum wrapped up a five-day meeting in this southern Brazilian city, urging citizens…
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