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The Rio+20 summit next year, should focus on reshaping the world economy to better “manage the planet,” a UN’s top environment official said at climate talks in Durban.
“Rio will help the world look at climate change in the broader context of the changes we need to bring about in our global economy,” United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director Achim Steiner told AFP on the sidelines of the 12-day negotiations, which end Friday.
“We are moving toward a world of nine billion people that will face food and climate insecurity, economic shock, unemployment.”…
