World Leaders And Th Environment

Diario Libre
June 20, 2012

World leaders set out their great disunity in the environment

RIO DE JANEIRO. - The summit of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio +20 began today inRio de Janeiro with a broad consensus on the urgency of preserving the planet, but with piercing means differences in each country proposes to do.

A hundred heads of State and Government and seniorrepresentatives from 193 countries gathered in this Brazilian city to reaffirm the commitment to the environment and sustainable development, in a match that will last until Friday.

SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon said in his opening address that the world "can not afford to waste time" in taking action to change the economic model towards a green economy.

Ban called on countries to "overcomethe special interests" and think about future generations, but this message resonated with the leaders, who exposed the profound differences that have hampered the signing of a larger Rio +20.

TheBrazilian president, Dilma Rousseff, acting as host, delivered the warmest for minimum agreement signed on Tuesday, the content was proposed by Brazil and eliminated the most controversial issues toavoid failure of the negotiations.

Rousseff welcomed the adoption of the commitment to eradicate poverty and which is renewed the principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities", whichtransfers the pressure to stop climate change mainly on the shoulders of the wealthy.

Optimism faded in the intervention of French President François Hollande, who argued that the agreement will besigned by heads of state is "insufficient" to give environmental issues a higher importance on the global agenda.

The Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, said that only viable environmentalprojects from the economic point of view will be sustainable and called for a "green economy" that combines environmental protection and job creation.

"I am convinced that the environment can be...