Posted by Raquel Godoy
The
discussion about saving the planet has always brought the world to a deadlock. On the one hand, everybody knows that our planet cannot endure people’s way
of living: excessive consumption, deforestation, pollution, etc. However, on
the other hand, few countries are willing to stop their development to think
about the environment, even the ones that are already considered developed.
That’s why it
is taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Rio+20 United Nations Conference
on Sustainable Development, in which most countries are going to discuss a way to
put economy development on a more sustainable path.
Although,
even before the conference began, there were already struggles. Because of the
Euro crisis, some European leaders, such as UK's David
Cameron and Germany's Angela Merkel, are more concerned about the election in
Greece than in paying attention to Earth’s future. Also, some are concerned
about the Palestinians participation.
The talks
about the outcome document have already begun, but it was difficult to achieve
a consensus. This is the reason why Brazil took over the presidency of
negotiations last Friday (15), and now tries to avoid solving the deadlocks
only with the Heads of State and Government in the meeting next week.
The main
impasses are the implementation of a sustainable development; the financing,
capacitation and exchange of technology; and the restatement of some topics of
Agenda 21, from Eco 92.
Nevertheless, Nikhil Seth, Director of the Division for Sustainable
Development of UN and head of the Rio+20 secretariat, seems to
be optimistic with the negotiations. He said that the delegations have reached a
consensus in 38% of the outcome document.
Therefore,
Earth will have to wait until next week’s meeting with the Heads of State and
Government to know what the world is going to decide about its future.
*Written based on the following texts:
Uncertainty
hampers Rio+20 talks
by Richard
Black
posted in BBC News
Documento
final tem quase 38% de consenso, diz diretor da ONU
by
Daniel Buarque, Dennis Barbosa, Giovana Sanchez e Nathália Passarinho
posted in G1
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