Sydney Morning Herald: SINCE the first Rio earth summit 20 years ago, Brazil's population has risen by 50 million and its economy has grown strongly, at least until this year. In 1992, the drive to the city's huge conference centre took delegates through kilometres of fields. Now they drive on a new freeway that runs through a sprawl of high-rise apartments. Over those same 20 years the quest for an international consensus on how to handle the environmental consequences of economic growth has moved forward hardly at...
URL: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/in-the-shadows-of-rio-progress-slips-through-20120622-20tk9.html
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