Thursday, 03 May 2012 12:49
Kyiv – Over 70 civic leaders from Ukraine – youth activists, public officials, progressive village council heads, and academia gathered in the capital to discuss Ukraine’s progress in implementing UN Declaration on Sustainable Development and the role of local communities in reaching a balance between economic, social, and environmental development. The venue for the Civic Leaders Forum “From Local Initiatives to Global Changes” in light of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development “Rio +20” was chosen for a reason. Hosted in the Kyiv Botanical Garden, it was supposed to symbolize a balance, the recipe for which the global community will attempt to invent during the global summit in Brazil this June.
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