Telegraph: More than 150,000 people crowded into hotels on the famous Copacabana strip and even paid for space in converted office and 'love motels' for the eagerly anticipated conference 20 years on from the original 1992 Earth Summit. The jamboree cost the Brazilian Government pounds 134million and each country hundreds of thousands to pay for flights and accommodation. The 50 strong UK delegation will have cost at least pounds 100,000. The UN, that is paid for by taxpayers around the world, will have...
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