{"id":5582,"date":"2010-05-19T12:17:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T17:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5582"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:29:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:29:17","slug":"un-rio-20-preparations-under-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/05\/19\/un-rio-20-preparations-under-way\/","title":{"rendered":"UN &#8220;Rio + 20&#8221; preparations under way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5583\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/05\/Earth-Day-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Earth Day\" width=\"105\" height=\"105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/05\/Earth-Day-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/05\/Earth-Day-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/05\/Earth-Day.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 105px) 100vw, 105px\" \/>Preparations have <a title=\"begun\" href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/Resource-Wars\/2010\/05\/18\/Sustainability-worries-UN-officials\/UPI-25531274194383\/\" target=\"_blank\">begun <\/a>at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/\">United Nations<\/a> for the global sustainable development summit to be held in Brazil in 2012, with the &#8220;Rio + 20&#8221; summit to\u00a0mark the 20th anniversary of the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthsummit2012.org\/\">Earth Summit<\/a>&#8221; in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riodejaneiro.com\/\">Rio de Janeiro<\/a> which\u00a0was held\u00a020 years after the 1972 environmental conference in <a href=\"http:\/\/beta.stockholmtown.com\/en\/\">Stockholm<\/a>.\u00a0 International relations Professors <a title=\"Adil Najam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/experts\/staff\/adil-najam\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adil Najam<\/a>, director of the <a title=\"Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future<\/a>, and <a title=\"Henrik Selin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/experts\/henrik-selin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Henrik Selin<\/a>, a research fellow at the Center, write in a <em>New Strait Times<\/em> <a title=\"commentary\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/b7Udwc\" target=\"_blank\">commentary<\/a> that sustainable development is the key to\u00a0a &#8220;Rio + 20&#8221; agreement.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;They should seek to craft a global new deal for sustainable development; a deal that could finally help bridge the North-South divide by tackling poverty as well as over-consumption, environmental degradation as well as social justice, and greenness of the economy along with sustainable livelihoods.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Adil Najam, 617-358-4000, <a href=\"mailto:anajam@bu.edu\">anajam@bu.edu<\/a>; Henrik Selin, 617-358-2590, <a href=\"mailto:selin@bu.edu\">selin@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preparations have begun at the United Nations for the global sustainable development summit to be held in Brazil in 2012, with the &#8220;Rio + 20&#8221; summit to\u00a0mark the 20th anniversary of the &#8220;Earth Summit&#8221; in Rio de Janeiro which\u00a0was held\u00a020 years after the 1972 environmental conference in Stockholm.\u00a0 International relations Professors Adil Najam, director of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2837,2836,1399,2824,2838,2822,2839,2823,1718],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5582"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7747,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5582\/revisions\/7747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}