- Date submitted: 1 Nov 2011 - Stakeholder type: Major Group -
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to UNCSD 2012 (Rio+20) Many developing countries suffer from
increasingly unstable environments with severe consequences for
their people. Loss of biological diversity, natural resources
and areas fit for human habitation would be huge challenges for
even the most developed countries. But challenges are even
greater when countries are confronted with the simultaneous
tasks of climate change, improving governance, strengthening
national application of human rights, ensuring growth and
reducing inequality. Almost 20 years after the United Nations
Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio (ECO 92), the world
is facing an unprecedented intersection of crisis in: energy,
climate, food and finance. The crises are interlinked and caused
by the current and dominating model of development. From
production to consumption, populations are using more natural
resources and consuming more, at an