Change the approach to sustainable development

摘要

As the world heads towards the next big environmental summit - the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June - officials and politicians are calling for further assessments of our global ecological plight. In January, for example, a panel on global sustainability set up by UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon recommended a "periodic global sustainable development outlook report that brings together information and assessments currently dispersed across institutions and analyses them in an integrated way".