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Delingpole: Rio – killing the earth since 1992 (1)

Quite possibly the only good thing about this week’s Rio + 20 summit is that it coincides with the publication of a brilliant new book called Os Melancias. If you’re American or Canadian you’ll know it as Watermelons: The Green Movement’s True Colors. In … Continue reading

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Foster: The Rio future we avoided (2)

The “failure” of Rio+20 is a cause for celebration, even if you can’t afford the champagne and foie gras that ecocrats served themselves as their hopes for “Sustainia” retreated into the policy fog. A mostly “B” list of government leaders … Continue reading

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Wente: A mighty wind blows in Rio

I have bad news and good news about this week’s Rio+20 summit on sustainable development, which has been billed as the biggest United Nations conference of all time. The bad news is that it will accomplish nothing. The good news … Continue reading

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Rio + 20 conference: Negotiators producing a mammoth, messy and expensive grab bag of regulations and demands

Three weeks before the U.N.-sponsored Rio + 20 summit conference on sustainable development, member countries that  the United States hoped would produce a five-page summary of goals are instead haggling over a mammoth  grab-bag of demands for new planetary regulation … Continue reading

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