Rio+ 20 Earth summit draft agenda

A draft copy of the agenda for the first 'Earth summit' in twenty years, which takes place in Brazil this June. Nations will be asked to sign up for 10 goals and promise to build green economies at this summer's earth summit. The 20-page document celebrates progress made in the last 20 years in reducing poverty and developing IT industries, but it recognises that countries have largely failed to meet most of the environmental and developmental challenges and commitments they made two decades ago. "Unsustainable development has increased the stress on the earth's limited natural resources, and on the carrying capacity of ecosystems. Food insecurity, climate change and biodiversity loss have adversely affected development gains. We are deeply concerned that around 1.4 billion people still live in extreme poverty and one sixth of the world's population is undernourished, pandemics are omnipresent threats," it says.