May 27, 2012 07:00 AM
Bharati Chaturvedi
Ahead of Rio summit, equity stares us in the face
Twenty years ago, the Rio Declaration pushed forth the ideas of sustainability and equity. Of course, in India, and in many other parts of the world where the poor or where local people were key to environmental protection, these issues had already been raised. But in 1992, equity as an environmental issue was accepted by the United Nations. Now, a few weeks before the Rio +20 summit, the question about equity stares us in the face.
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