Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Rio+20 Earth summit talks turn into rubber-stamp job

Guardian: Delegates and non-governmental organisations at the UN's huge Rio+20 conference have expressed dismay that world leaders arriving on Wednesday to thrash out a deal will do little more than rubber-stamp a negotiating text that contains few concrete measures and has been largely locked down. Campaigners had hoped the arrival of world leaders such as the Chinese premier Wen Jiabao, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg and Russian president Vladimir Putin would...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jun/20/rio20-earth-summit-talks
Enclosure: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2012/6/20/1340227063928/Rio20-008.jpg

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