The Rio earth summit next week could have a huge impact on our future. You can get acquainted with it using the Storify below as a portal. We will follow it on this blog during next week so come back and see it...
[<a href="http://storify.com/BSGeography/rio-20-coming-soon" target="_blank">View the story "Rio +20 Coming soon....." on Storify</a>]<h1>Rio +20 Coming soon.....</h1><h2>Next week there is a summit of world leaders in Rio, Brazil to discuss sustainable development and targets for the future. It takes place 20 years after the first such meeting, also in Rio in 1992.</h2><p>Storified by Bedford School Geog · Thu, Jun 07 2012 08:44:34</p><div>About - Rio+20 - United Nations Conference on Sustainable ...Why is Rio+20 convened? How it is organized? Who are the main actors? How can all citizens of the planet take part in shaping its prepa...</div><div>Some of the important issues are coming into the spotlight as the summit approaches</div><div>Hungry Planet 15. RIO+20 Special Reportifadtv</div><div>The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) just released the Global Economic Outlook (GEO-5) report on the eve of the Rio+20 Summit. The report assessed 90 of the most-important environmental goals and objectives and found that significant progress had only been made in four."The world continues to speed down an unsustainable path despite over 500 internationally agreed goals and objectives to support the sustainable management of the environment and improve human wellbeing, according to a new and wide-ranging assessment coordinated by UNEP.But it‘s not all bad news. The report says meeting an ambitious set of sustainability targets by the middle of the century is possible if current policies and strategies are changed and strengthened, and gives many examples of successful policy initiatives, including public investment, green accounting, sustainable trade, the establishment of new markets, technological innovation and capacity building."Check out the link for more details: http://www.unep.org/geo/geo5.asp#Matt Stanley</div><div>Coming up to Rio+20, some insights into where we are now, failures, successes, and opportunities. It's becoming urgent!!!http://www.unep.org/flvPlayer/videoplayer.asp?id=27459&l=enAndrew Deutsch</div><div>Many people are also lobbying for targets they would like to see met at the summit:</div><div>Rio+20 The Future We WantThe Future We Want. In this video, Emmanuel from Cuba, Gabriela from the UK, Natalie from Vietnam and Ben from Ghana share their vision...</div><div>Rio+20: Turn the Tide for Our Ocean | Pew and ZSLpew</div><div>The world has failed to deliver on many of the promises it made 20 years ago at the Earth summit in Brazil. http://bit.ly/MctrFdKayEss</div><div>For #Rio+20, a Call to Preserve #Biodiversity http://bit.ly/NjDZaHGeozon Science Media</div><div>RT @david_turnbull: "Push to eliminate fossil-fuel subsidies" a poss. focus of Rio+20, says @eilperin, Washington Post. http://wapo.st/M9pOQz (go to pg 2)steven guilbeault</div><div>What do you think should be the key focus of the summit?<div><br></div></div><div>Find out how it goes and follow it online</div><div>Rio+20 Portal | Building the Peoples Summit Rio+20The Rio+20 Earth Summit Happening June 20-22 provides #Occupy the platform to join forces ... Rio+20 and the Green Economy: the need fo...</div><div>Rio+20 Earth summit | Environment | The GuardianLatest news and comment on Rio+20 Earth summit from guardian.co.uk.</div>
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