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RIO+20 : From Sustainable Development to Green Economy

WHAT IS AT STAKE? WHICH ALTERNATIVES?

Before Rio +20 summit, this new United Nations Conference for Sustainable Development (UNCSD), Alter-Echo (alter-echos.org) publishes a 16-minute video fully subtitled in English with interviews of Pablo Solon, Edagardo Lander, Yvonne Yanez, Silvia Ribeiro, Tony Clarke, Nnimmo Bassey, Anabella Rosemberg. Among the issues: What does mean moving from sustainable development to green economy? What is hidden behind this new concept of green economy: green growth? green capitalism? something else? What conclusions should we draw from these twenty years, while environmental degradation has accelerated, inequalities have widened and that democracies are being undermined? Which alternatives?

 

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