Africa: Rio+20 - Global Community Strives for Sustainable Development

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The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development underway in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil provides an opportunity for the global community to renew its commitment to promote sustainable development and address new and emerging challenges such as climate change.

The Rio+20 conference comes 20 years after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, where Agenda 21 was adopted as a comprehensive blueprint of action that was to be taken globally, nationally and locally by UN organisations, governments and major groups in every area in which humans directly affect the environment. The conference will review progress and agree on new measures to reduce poverty while promoting sustainable and fair use of resources.

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