Rio+20: the basics
Pilita Clark, the FT's environment correspondent, gives us the lowdown on the biggest conference the UN has ever organised. Read more
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Off the charts: Rio+20
Twenty years on from the 1992 Rio earth summit, more than 100 leaders have convened for the Rio+20 sustainable development conference. The 1992 summit launched a number of landmark treaties, but what...
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Lies, damned lies and Brazilian forest cover
Amazon rainforest destruction. Reuters Rio de Janeiro, where tens of thousands of delegates are gathered this week for the Rio +20 summit, is sometimes described as more of a landscape than a city. But...
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Global warming and global civics
The climate change talks in Doha have come to a predictably acrimonious conclusion. As well as the baffling technical, economic and scientific challenges involved, the diplomatic deadlock throws up a...
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Millennium Development Goals need more Davos attention
By Jasmine Whitbread, chief executive of Save the Children There are two sessions on the future of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals beyond 2015 at Davos this year – the same number of sessions...
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Governments wrangle over final wording of landmark IPCC report
Sunny Stockholm - Getty Stockholm looks bright and brisk today, unlike some of the scientists and government officials who were heading into a large brick conference centre on the city’s waterfront at...
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France clings on to its agricultural heritage
There was good news for Europe’s farmers this week after a survey of EU citizens showed strong public support for the much criticised common agricultural policy. French farmers, who rely on EU...
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Boost for global food security
By Scheherazade Daneshkhu Some good news for a change. Food security - the availability and affordability of food – has got better, according to research published on Wednesday. The 66-page report from...
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After a bitter election campaign in which she eschewed market economics and painted her main opponent’s party as bloodsucking bankers, Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff is now adopting the more...
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Greece’s new finance minister proposed a “menu of debt swaps”, which involve exchanging existing loans for growth-linked bonds, that fall short of a headline write-off of the country’s €315bn foreign...
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