20 - 22 June: United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development – Rio +20 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development – Rio +20 – is being held June 20-22, 2012, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A good resource to understand the core issues and to prayerfully follow this important summit is a statement written by Caritas Internationalis ...

“The moment has come to put away the paralysis of indecision, acknowledge the facts and face up to the common humanity that unites all peoples, … Rio+20 is a moment to turn sustainable development from aspiration ..."

World leaders and government officials will gather in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 20-22 June 2012 for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development – commonly referred to as Rio +20. Twenty years after the Earth Summit of 1992 ...

Sustainable development too is concerned about the future. The Report of the Brundtland Commission in 1987 described sustainable development as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."