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Rio+20 Negotiators Report 'Progress,' NGOs Call It 'Weak' - 0 views

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  • More than 55,000 people from around the world and all walks of life are attending the summit. Some 130 world leaders are expected to participate in three-days of high-level talks opening June 20 that will result in a outcome document on sustainable development.
  • Rio+20 marks the 20th anniversary of the original UN Earth Summit in Rio, where countries agreed to a roadmap for environmental protection, economic growth, and social equity known as Agenda 21.
  • "The planet is running out of time - yet leaders are answering with weak words that don't even come close to the kind of commitments we need to ensure people everywhere have access to clean water, food, and energy," said Jim Leape, director general of WWF International.
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  • "the inter-linkages between food, water and energy,"
  • ocean protection
  • "Organizations are working to have strong text adopted on sustainable fisheries and small islands developing states, on really tackling illegal fishing, and a strong text on fisheries subsidies," she told reporters last week. "There's a good chance on there will be something on a high seas legal framework to protect areas of the high seas that are beyond national jurisdictions," she said. "Only the United States and Russia are opposed."
  • On Saturday, more than 80 countries, civil society groups, private companies and international organizations declared their support for the new Global Partnership for Oceans
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  • While fostering a global green economy has been a key goal of the UN Environment Programme for Rio+20, thousands of women this morning held a march in protest of the green economy, saying it does not go far enough and relies on the exploitation of women.
  • capitalism that values only what can be bought and sold.
  • youth delegates appeared with duct tape over their mouths to dramatize their request that the United Nations establish a high commissioner for future generations.
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The End of Pasta - Newsweek and The Daily Beast - 0 views

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  • “I don’t think there’s any question” that climate change is already affecting wheat production in North Dakota, says Roger Johnson, a former durum farmer who was the state’s agriculture commissioner from 1996 to 2009.
  • The televised horrors of Hurricane Sandy may help break the climate silence that still afflicts many Americans. “Mother Nature is better at bringing people to Jesus than any politician is,” notes Jay Fuhrer, the extension agent. But a fear of offending friends and neighbors still inhibits many. “The first thing we always talk about here is the weather, because it affects our lives so much,” says Donny Nelson. “But global warming, people just don’t get into it.”
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  • le underground locations, has given rise to a massive expansion of production. In November the International Energy Agency projected that the U.S. will become the world’s leading oil producer by 2020, surpassing even Saudi Arabia. The Bakken deposits are a big reason why.
  • In November the International Energy Agency projected that the U.S. will become the world’s leading oil producer by 2020, surpassing even Saudi Arabia. The Bakken deposits are a big reason why.
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Rio Earth summit: theatrics, but no big agreements | Nation & World | The Seattle Times - 0 views

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Rio+20 Hillary Clinton engergy greenhouse gas emissions

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  • Proposals set out at the beginning, such as providing universal energy access and doubling renewables by 2030, were left on the cutting-room floor.
  • Conservation International Vice President Carlos Manuel Rodríguez said he was encouraged that Scandinavian leaders pledged support for systems that would place an economic value on clean waterways, intact forests and other important ecosystems.
  • Grenada announced its transport and electricity sectors will use only clean-energy sources by 2030; Unilever promised to cut its greenhouse-gas emissions in half by 2020.
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  • Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addressed delegates Friday, in Obama's place. She spoke of forging partnerships that would harness "the power of the market" rather than relying solely on governmental action. "It should be said of Rio that people left here thinking, as the late Steve Jobs put it, not just big, but different."
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