I APOLOGIZE HAVING SENT THIS YESTERDAY WITHOUT THE LINK. HERE IT IS WITH.<br>Claudio<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br>
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</span>December blog<span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in"><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Heavy";color:white" lang="PT-BR"><span> </span></span></i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Heavy";color:white" lang="PT-BR">Claudio
Schuftan<i> </i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Garamond" lang="EN-GB">This month, I look forward to a world
conference being held next June, in Rio
de Janeiro. This is the ‘Rio+20’
Conference on Sustainable Development, whose website is at <a href="http://www.uncsd2012.org/rio20/" target="_blank">http://www.uncsd2012.org/rio20/</a> </span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Garamond" lang="EN-GB">The overarching declared purpose of Rio+20
is once again, to raise consciousness of and arouse conscience on the environmental
dimension, which until late last century was more or less forgotten. Veterans
of world summits on any topic have reason for scepticism, but they are needed,
and we must all do our best to see that Rio+20 really does mark a time when we
all move towards living in ways that are fair and sane. </span></font></p>
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</font><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Garamond" lang="EN-GB">Adequate good nutrition is smack in the middle of sustainable
development. Neither is possible without the other.<span> </span>The prevailing governance structure of the globe ignores the several
crises the planet is facing, as well as the social determinants behind them.
Food insecurity, preventable child and maternal deaths, price barriers
to accessing<span> </span>medicines and collapsing
health systems share the fact that we do have enough resources to provide
for them, but these resources instead flow to over-consumption. Military
expenditure<span> </span>and obscene wealth for a
small elite. <span> </span></span></font></p>
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DEVELOPMENT</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Garamond;color:white" lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>WE NEED TO HEAR WHAT THE
PEOPLE ARE SAYING,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Garamond;color:white" lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>AND ‘THE PEOPLE’
SHOULD INCLUDE US.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Garamond;color:white" lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>THE CURRENT SYSTEM OF
GOVERNANCE IS BROKEN.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond" lang="EN-GB">To read the full blog, go to<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br><a href="http://wp.me/plAxa-1xA">http://wp.me/plAxa-1xA</a> <br><br>Claudio<br>
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