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RIO+20: The Earth Conference Revisited

Twenty years ago the first U.N. Earth Summit convened in Rio, Brazil to tackle the biggest environmental challenges of the day. Now world leaders met in Rio again, with many global challenges today more extreme.

The Rio Environmental Summit: One Teen Activist’s View

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RIO + 5: A PRIMER

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RIO + 5: RIO EARTH SUMMIT FIVE YEARS LATER

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The Global Forum

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Rio Summit Scene Setter

Peter Thomson provides a backgrounder on the issues of economic development and the environment  ?- two issues which seem to be colliding at the largest meeting of heads of state ever assembled.

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Unprep’ed for Uncled

NPR’s David Welna reports on the slow start on preparations for the giant United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, or Earth Summit, to be held next month in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Major construction on the site of the official conference began only a month ago, while organizers of a large meeting of non-governmental […]

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Almanac/Rio Summit

This week, reporter John Rudolph takes us back ten years to the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. After a last minute decision to attend the summit, the elder George Bush received criticism of his environmental agenda.

World Summit on Sustainable Development

The World Summit on Sustainable Development is expected to draw more than 60,000 people to South Africa at the end of the month. Host Steve Curwood speaks with Jan Pronk, special UN envoy to the summit, about what to expect from the talks.

Earth Summit Prep

The last preparatory meeting to set the agenda for the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg recently wrapped up in Bali. Host Steve Curwood talks with John Vidal of the Guardian newspaper about what was, and what was not, accomplished in Bali and what to expect in South Africa.