<div class='node-body'><p>RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil &ndash; This morning, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) kicked off in Brazil.</p>
<p>From June 20-22, 2012, the conference brings together around 50,000 persons: heads of states and delegates, business leaders and the private sector, NGOs, journalists, environmentalists, activists, indigenous groups and civil society, as they seek to eradicate poverty, world hunger, social inequity and climate change.</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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