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UN's Ban addresses global challenges ahead of Rio+20

Negotiations are "painfully slow" less than a month before the Rio+20 sustainable development summit, said United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and even added days of talks may not dislodge national interests. Ban is looking to leaders of global industry to help steer negotiations, a departure from the 1992 gathering in Rio de Janeiro that spawned the Kyoto Protocol. "Two decades later, we are back to the future. The challenges facing humanity today are much the same as then, only larger," Ban writes in The New York Times. The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (5/23), The Guardian (London) (5/24), Bloomberg Businessweek (5/25) LinkedInFacebookTwitterEmail this Story



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