KUALA LUMPUR: Despair from abject poverty often provides the breeding ground for conflict and to tackle this problem head-on, the United Nations (UN) has made sustainable development as its number one priority, says its secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon.
The Declaration endorses the recommendations of the Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability and UNDP's 2011 Human Development Report on Sustainability and Equity
Le Sommet Rio +20 prévu en juin prochain sur le développement durable, doit être axé sur l'économie et le développement et non essentiellement sur l'écologie, pour le gouvernement brésilien.
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 27, 2012 (IPS) - When a landmark U.N conference on sustainable development kicks off in Brazil mid-June, more than 120 world leaders are expected to participate in the much-ballyhooed talkfest on the future of the global environment.
The world system is in universal crisis but a salvage operation appears to be underway. The latest exercise in PR for human civilization, as we know it, will be launched in a few months at the Rio+20 world summit on sustainable development. It commemorates 20 years since the first world conference on this subject in 1992.