Comment The great Rio U-turn

Authors

  • Vandana Shiva *

Abstract

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - this is a city of U-turns. The most frequently spotted road sign here is ‘Retorno’ - return. And Rio+20 followed that pattern. It was a great U-turn in terms of the human responsibility to protect the life-sustaining processes of the planet. Twenty years ago at the Earth Summit, legally binding agreements to protect biodiversity and prevent catastrophic climate change were signed. The Convention on Biological Diversity and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change propelled governments to start shaping domestic laws and policies to address two of the most significant ecological crises of our times. The

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Published

2020-02-17