The divide at the Summit

Article Abstract:

The performance of the nations that attended the Earth Summit was dismal, especially that of the US. The refusal of the US to sign the Biodiversity Treaty hampered the approval of climate and forestry agreements. Economics rules the decisions of the nations, not concern for the destruction of the planet. Profits rule and the Earth Summit became, not a meeting for the preservation of the planet, but a venue for further profit-making.

United States

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Earth Summit 2: politics and promises

Article Abstract:

Environmental groups including Greenpeace will campaign for improved environmental goals at the second Earth Summit world conference in 1997. The Agenda 21 document established at the 1992 Summit defined sustainable development strategy programmes until the next millennium. The 800-page document includes strategies on aspects of desertification, oceans and ecosystems. Almost 200 countries will be represented at the 1997 summit.

Conferences, meetings and seminars, Environmental economics, Greenpeace Foundation

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Checking the right

Article Abstract:

The environmental movement's growing popularity has resulted in a conservative backlash against it. People from the conservative right to the radical and racist right are attacking the movement based on impressions of its anti-humanity and anti-progress philosophy.

Conservatism

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