Rio+20 and the U.S.-Brazil Joint Initiative on Urban Sustainability
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William Butler
AS/COA hosted Izabella Teixeira, Brazil's minister of the environment and Lisa Jackson, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to discuss the priorities and challenges of the Joint Initiative on Urban Sustainability.
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