Abstract:World leaders convened for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in June 2012, marking 20 years since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, and at a time of rapidly increasing pressures on the planet’s ecosystems and impacts on the poor and vulnerable members of society. Rio+20 focused on two closely related solutions to the world’s challenges — new institutional frameworks for sustainable development, and the drive to a green economy defined as an economy “that results in improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities” (UNEP, 2012). (...)

Keywords:China, South-South, coopeeration, green growth
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