Feb 10, 2012 12:00 AM
Maroussia Klep
Rio+20: trade can benefit the environment
For the second time in January, trade experts and environmentalists met together at UN Headquarters in New York to plan for more effective collaboration at Rio+20 in June.
“We are building a bridge between the two communities of trade and environment, which are usually separated in negotiations,” Eugenia Nunez, Economic Affairs Officer at the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), tells MediaGlobal. “It is indeed crucial that in Rio, discussions on necessary adjustments towards a green economy have a trade language.”
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