Interview with Helen Clark, Administrator of UNDP, on Rio+20

“If Rio is treated as a UN conference which can mobilize and enthuse people, and not as some sort of treaty negotiation where every single word carries weight, then I think we could get through it in good shape,” says Helen Clark, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, about the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) taking place June 20-22.

“The unifying vision has to be found around promoting human development within the boundaries of nature,” she says. “That has been the formula which succeeded at the Stockholm Conference forty years ago. It’s the formula that succeeded at the Earth Summit, and it’s what needs to drive this one.”

Listen to the interview below:

Kasia Skibinska9 December 2023