Sunday, May 27, 2012

Slow progress since Earth Summit 20 years ago

Agence France-Presse: Twenty years after the Earth Summit in Rio pledged to save the environment for future generations, observers and policy makers agree swifter action is required to avert climate catastrophe. But even as new warnings were issued this week of impending disaster -- more severe droughts, disease spread and land-effacing sea level rises -- climate negotiators gathered in Bonn continued to bicker over procedure. "Let's consider climate change like you are in a car trying to stop before reaching a...

URL: http://news.yahoo.com/slow-progress-since-earth-summit-20-years-ago-063305433.html

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