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The Guardian - UK
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Jaz Cummins

Rio+20: your sustainable development messages – in pictures

Message to Rio+20: Flickr group
'Responsibility = Sustainability' – that's the message from ORT Brazil student Maria Clara Beta, 16. ORT is a non-profit global Jewish organisation that promotes education and training in more than 100 countries. By shimonchaim for ORT
Photograph: shimonchaim/Flickr
Message to Rio+20: Flickr group
'I need to go to school, I need the school fees,' says Patrick Oryema in Uganda. By socialenterpriseafrica.org
Photograph: socialenterpriseafrica.org/Flickr
Message to Rio+20: Flickr group
'I care about Rio+20: let's make sure there's plenty more fish in the sea,' says Gemma Routledge at Panda House in Godalming, UK. By WWF UK
Photograph: Flickr/WWF
Message to Rio+20: Flickr group
'Tell Rio+20 using crops to biofuel your car is bonkers!' Biofuels aren't clean energy and Rio+20 should rule them out of sustainable energy, according to ActionAid UK
Photograph: ActionAid UK/Flickr
Message to Rio+20: Flickr group
'Tuna uwezo' means 'Yes we can' in Swahili. Amra Sleyum Amour, 40, shows her 'Powerful Hands'; her message relates to her work in planting mangroves through a CARE Redd pilot project in Zanzibar, Tanzania
Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Care/Flickr
Message to Rio+20: Flickr group
'I need a mother, the Earth needs you,' says ORT Brazil student Yanca Lima, 15. By shimonchaim for ORT
Photograph: shimonchaim/Flickr
Message to Rio+20: Flickr group
'Save Earth', that's the central message from Mastermindmaps
Photograph: Mastermindmaps/Flickr
Message to Rio+20: Flickr group
'I care about Rio! Rio+20 for a sustainable agriculture,' declares Ian James at Panda House in Godalming, UK. By WWF UK
Photograph: WWF/Flickr
Message to Rio+20: Flickr group
'Wish you were here David [Cameron]' – that's the message from Sarah Reader, complete with Nick Clegg mask
Photograph: Sarah Reader/Flickr
Message to Rio+20: Flickr group
'I would like to have a better future, better education in our community, and sanitation,' says Steven Opio in Uganda. By socialenterpriseafrica.org
Photograph: socialenterpriseafrica.org/Flickr
Message to Rio+20: Flickr group
'Conscientização,' says ORT Brazil student Ana Carolina Ramoa, 15. The word approximates to 'critical consciousness' in English. The concept was developed by Brazilian pedagogue and educational theorist Paulo Freire as part of his focus on achieving a detailed understanding of the world, one allowing for the perception and exposure of social and political contradictions. By shimonchaim for ORT
Photograph: shimonchaim/Flickr
Message to rio+20: Flickr group
'Don't forget women @ Rio+20': that's the message from the Guardian's Global development team – represented here by Jaz Cummins, the site's community co-ordinator – in London
Photograph: The Guardian/Flickr
Rio+20 messages: from readers on flickr
Separate oil and state say activists at Rio+20. By Senel Wanniarachchi from Sri Lanka, a Rio+20 fellow in the adopt a negotiator project
Photograph: Senel Wanniarachchi/Flickr
Rio+20 messages: from readers on flickr
End fossil fuel subsidies say activists at Rio+20. By Senel Wanniarachchi from Sri Lanka, a Rio+20 fellow in the adopt a negotiator project
Photograph: Senel Wanniarachchi/Flickr
Rio+20 messages: from readers on flickr
Fiscalizar las inclustrias contaminantes (Tax polluting industries). By Clima de Cambios PUCP. Clima de Cambios PUCP is an initiative of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Photograph: Clima de Cambios PUCP/Flickr
Rio+20 messages: from readers on flickr
Sin agua y sin tierra? Comeremos dinero? (No water and no land? Can we eat money?) By Clima de Cambios PUCP
Photograph: Clima de Cambios PUCP/Flickr
Rio+20 messages: from readers on flickr
Economia verde nao e solucao!! (Green economy is no solution!!) says Tania, of Renas in Rio. Renas, (Rede Evangélica Nacional de Ação Social – Rede National Evangelical Social Action) is one of Tearfund's partner organisations in Brazil. By Tearfund
Photograph: Tearfund/Flickr
Rio+20 messages: from readers on flickr
Eu quero menos bla bla bla e mais AÇÃO! (I want less bla bla bla and more ACTION!) A message from a member of Igrejas Ecocidadas (church eco-citizens), a campaign movement led by Tearfund partners A Rocha Brasil and Fale. By Tearfund
Photograph: Tearfund/Flickr
Rio+20 messages: from readers on flickr
Rio+20: Our world is not for sale. By Arrrlex1
Photograph: Arrrlex1/Flickr
Rio+20 messages: from readers on flickr
The facts, the challenge and the outcome? David Cameron: Stop favouring the takers and dragging your feet. By stephen_pennells
Photograph: stephen_pennells/Flickr
Rio+20 messages
Green buildings mean happy and healthy future generations. By the Green Building Council, Guatemala
Photograph: Green Building Council/Flickr
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