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The good news for green groups in 2012 is that they have a big global event on which to focus their energies: the “Rio+20” conference on sustainable development, to be held under the auspices of the United Nations in Rio de Janeiro on June 4th-6th, 20 years after a landmark environmental summit in the same city. The less good news is that it is far from clear what the latest in the series of un grand gatherings on saving the planet will achieve. Not for the first time in the run-up to such events, disagreements are rife over its agenda and its management.
Start with a bit of history. In 1970, two years before the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, Brazil voiced its strong unease at the proposed agenda. Environmental protection, the Brazilians argued, must “be planned as a means to promote development and not as an obstacle...to the rising expectations of the underdeveloped world.” At the ...
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