CBD COP11: Green agenda must breakout from Western dominance

CBD COP11: Green agenda must breakout from Western dominance

Jasdev Singh Rai, UNESCO interview: Rio Conventions Pavilion, CBD COP11, 10/10/2012 – Rai, chairperson of the Repository of World views of Nature, UNESCO argues that the environmental agenda needs to account for all the world’s cultures and breakaway from its current state of Western dominance.

He argues that the UN’s universal policies are not representative to ordinary people in Africa, India and large parts of Asia.