Zero Ten Twenty: The Children of Rio
Wednesday 20th June 2012
For 20 years, we’ve been following the lives of 11 children born in different countries round the world in 1992 - the year of the first Rio Earth Summit, where world leaders signed up to a blueprint for a greener, fairer world – a world that would safeguard resources for future generations Twenty years on, In tve’s flagship, long-term project ‘Zero, Ten, Twenty’ catches up with our children on the threshold of adulthood - in Brazil, China, India, Kenya, Latvia, Norway, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, England and USA. Their stories constitute a unique diary of what it’s been like to grow up in a fast-changing, 21st century world –how globalization and the Earth Summit have impacted on their lives, and what now are their hopes, fears and ambitions for the future, on the eve of the new Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012.