Over 45 thousand delegates gathered for ten days in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to assess the world's progress for sustainable development. The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, dubbed Rio+20, commemorates the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio that laid out ambitious goals for climate change, poverty reduction, and economic development. But as the summit closed, critics disparaged the outcomes as vague and weak.
-Pan Jiahua, Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences;
-William R. Moomaw, Director of International Environment and Resource Policy at the Fletcher School of Tufts University;
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