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World Summit on Sustanable Development (2002) was held in:

A

Brazil

B

Sweden

C

Argentina

D

South Africa

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In 2002 the United Nations sponsored the world Summit on sustainable Development in Johannesburg South Africa, to assess the progress and failures in the 10 years since the 1992 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The 2002 summit considered issues such as population growth , poverty , the depletion of freshwater , food security , the use of unsus-tainable energy sources and land degradation and habitat loss.
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