– President Dilma Rousseff today opened Rio +20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, at Brazil’s giant pavilion in Athletes Park opposite Riocentro, the main seat of the conference meetings.
Irreversible environmental damage threatens to destabilise the
world's life-support systems unless urgent action is taken,
according to the latest Global Environment Report (GEO-5)
which looks to the Rio+20 summit as a crucial opportunity to
halt this decline.
Almost a year and a half after floods wreaked havoc in a large part of the state of Rio de Janeiro, a group of women are struggling to rebuild their lives.
