Twenty years after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the sustainable development agenda continues to focus too exclusively on the environment — driven by environment ministries, with woefully insufficient progress overall.
And over the past 20 years, development has moved us closer to the risk of exceeding “planetary boundaries” of our Earth system — from the climate to biodiversity, to land use. Yet while facing these challenges we must further enhance efforts towards bridging the development divide between the North and the South, as well as securing greater social equity and human wellbeing.
It is therefore essential to ensure that in the future, those dealing with our economies also commit to sustainable development and the ‘greening’ of our economic systems. This is why the Rio+20 world summit will focus on the green economy “in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication”.
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