More than 130 world leaders, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese Premier Jiabao, will be attending the Rio+ Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro later this month.

Both the Indian and Chinese leaders know only too well this will be a crucial meeting to put the south — south point of view across to fight climate change.
The US President Barack Obama has not yet confirmed his attendance at the 20th anniversary of the world’s first Earth Summit, which gave birth to three major environmental treaties on climate change biodiversity and land degradation and desertification.