Globalization and scientific advances are reshaping the debate over environment and development policy and will merit attention at next year's Rio Plus 10 Earth Summit, according to a senior World Bank official.
For policymakers like Ian Johnson, the bank's vice president and head of its Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Network, this key international gathering is approaching fast.
"Rio Plus 10 needs to look at the new agenda and what factors have shaped (it) in probably the last 10 years," Johnson said during a recent interview.