Twenty years ago, at the first United Nations Earth Summit, the Australian Government signed the Rio Declaration and committed to transforming the way Australians treat the environment. Australia signed each of the subsequent international agreements intended to propel national action to overcome the great planetary threats of climate change, biodiversity loss and desertification and degradtion. Since Rio, we have become world leaders in failure: per person, responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions, more habitat lost, and greater biodiversity decline than any other developed country.
See Larissa's video blogs from Rio +20 here:
