Fiddling while Rome burns, a report from Rio
Abstract
The United Nations conference on Sustainable Development that took place in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012 was nothing short of a disaster. Called to mark twenty years since the rst Earth Summit, Rio+20 was supposed to demonstrate that governmentswere taking environmental crisis seriously. Despite the high-prole conference the conference's concluding statement, optimistically called The Future that We Want contained little of substance.
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2012-09-01
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