Africa: Regional Science Communities to Meet to Push Post-Rio+20 Agenda

12 June 2012

Rio De Janeiro — Researchers from across the developing world are attending a series of meetings to push forward the science and policy issues they have identified for inclusion in next week's Rio+20 summit.

Science and technology communities from five regions (Africa, the Arab States, Asia Pacific, Europe and Latin America) met during 2011, and some of their recommendations were taken forward by the Scientific and Technological Community - one of nine official 'groups' inputting into Rio+20 - as part of its formal contribution to the summit.

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