What is it about?
The June 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD or Rio+20) was the latest international community effort to deal holistically with global environmental issues. This profile paper looks at whether it was a success or not.
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Why is it important?
One of the first paper to offer an account of the Rio+20 Summit.
Perspectives
Was Rio+20 the stage for yet another symbolic theatrical performance or were substantive decisions taken there that could potentially help define the future sustainable development agenda? Even though many argued that the Summit needed to do more in terms of 'hard law', it is interesting that the lasting legacy of Rio+20 will be the widely supported proposal by Colombia and Guatemala at the Latin American regional preparatory meeting to define Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This process will dominate environmental policy-making in the years to come.
Dr Stavros Afionis
Cardiff University
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This page is a summary of: The UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20): A sign of the times or ‘ecology as spectacle’?, Environmental Politics, March 2013, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2013.765162.
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