Wilson Center Experts
Richenda Van Leeuwen
Affiliation:
Senior Director, Energy and Climate, UN Foundation
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Managing The Planet: The Road to Rio+20
November 16, 2011 // 3:00pm — 5:00pm
“We still see people thinking about the environment as if it is something apart. The idea of a synergy, a balance of development still, I think, eludes us both in theoretical, but especially in practical terms. And that is what Rio+20 is about,” said Ambassador Luiz Alberto Figueiredo Machado, under-secretary for environment, energy, science, and technology at the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.