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People on Ipanema Beach on the final day of the Rio+20 conference on June 22, 2012 in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. The Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development or ‘Earth Summit’ saw over 100 heads of state and tens of thousands of participants and protesters descend on Rio. Host Brazil was caught up in its own dilemma between accelerated growth and environmental preservation.