The UK is sending 250 soldiers to Mali to join the UN peacekeeping mission in 2020. Mali faces considerable political, security and governance challenges, compounded by a military coup in August 2020. This Commons Library briefing paper looks at the deployment and the situation in Mali.
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The Rio+20 UN conference on sustainable development (90 KB, PDF)
From 20-22 June 2012 the UN will hold a conference on sustainable development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, twenty years on from the ‘Earth Summit’ of 1992, also held in Rio. This note sets out the likely agenda for the conference and some surrounding political issues.
Unlike the first Rio Summit, which resulted in the climate change and biodiversity conventions, along with a sustainable development action plan, this conference will focus on sustainable development. Its two themes are the ‘green economy’ and an institutional framework for sustainable development. One aim is to develop sustainable development goals, like the UN millennium development goals. In January 2012 a ‘zero draft’ outcome document was produced.
In October 2011 the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) published its Report on Preparations for the Rio+20 Summit which noted inadequate progress since 1992. That report and the Government response were debated in the House on 28 February 2012.
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The Rio+20 UN conference on sustainable development (90 KB, PDF)
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