Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Rio 20 draft agreement

  • World leaders are set to convene at the Rio+20 Earth Summit tomorrow to begin high-level Civil society groups are expressing concern about almost every issue in the draft agreement.
  • (Think Progress)
  • Delegates in Rio de Janeiro have agreed on a draft document for world leaders come to Brazil Wednesday for the summit.
  • (Voice of America)
  • Diplomats from over 190 countries agreed on a draft text on green global development on Tuesday to be approved this week at a summit in Rio de Janeiro, but environmentalists said the agreement was too weak.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • Diplomats from over 190 countries agreed on a draft text on green global development on Tuesday to be approved this week at a summit in Rio de Janeiro, but environmentalists complained the agreement was too weak.
  • (Reuters UK)
  • The Australian Greens are urging Prime Minister Julia Gillard to strengthen the toothless draft text of a global environmental agreement to be approved by leaders at a United Nations summit.
  • (SBS)
  • negotiators finalised the draft agreement that will be submitted to heads of government as they deliberate climate goals, but key leaders like US President Barack Obama and UK Prime Minster David Cameron will be absent from the conference in Rio De Janeiro.
  • (Beeld)
  • OTTAWA — The bad blood between Ottawa and environmentalists was on display before the entire world Tuesday as negotiators from more than 100 countries signed a draft 20 summit was never going to save the world," Fried said in an email from Rio.
  • (Record)
  • The draft agreement in Rio, said the diplomats who drafted the document had failed and national leaders needed to step in.
  • (Sydney Morning Herald)
  • Green groups say the latest draft of a deal between world leaders to tackle environmental problems is a colossal failure of leadership.
  • (SBS)

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