Abstract: Perpetuation of disparities, a worsening of poverty, hunger, ill health and illiteracy and the continuing deterioration of the ecosystem on which we depend for our well-being is what shackles our development today.
Inputs from: National Environment Policy 2006, and Agenda 21, United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1992.
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