Civil society leaders meeting here for the 2011 CIVICUS World Assembly are looking ahead toward next year's Rio+20 summit – a milestone anniversary of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, and a crucial meeting of U.N. member states and non-governmental organisations to work towards a greener future.In advance of the June 2012 summit, officially dubbed the Conference on Sustainable Development, some environmentalists say they are concerned about its focus on developing a "Green Economy".
According to Sustain Labour's Laura Martin, the green economy originated as a concept in 2007, when governments created "green" stimulus packages to offset financial panic. Now, some argue that it is taking away from the summit's real objective: sustainable development.
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