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...think the Earth Summit in Rio had a big impact on him too. He wanted America to be a leader in these areas, and he found our country dragging its feet. He saw the Germans and Japanese down there just eating our lunch, selling environmental technology and environmental cleanup stuff all around the world. I think that really may have been something that made him even more determined to entertain this partnership...
...interesting piece of sustainable development is already emerging unheralded from the intersection of biotechnology and biological diversity. Pharmaceutical companies already reap huge sales from this or that wild and wonderful molecule discovered in the natural variety of plant and animal life. Natural or genetically enhanced organisms aid with environmental cleanup. A CFC-eating bacterium was recently found in sediments of the Potomac River. A basic laboratory for biotechnology and diagnostic medicine uses a heat- resistant enzyme derived from a bacterium native to Yellowstone hot springs. Upward of nearly $100 billion of annual economic activity is generated at this intersection...
...airport, built a new downtown expressway and preened the beachfront parks and promenades. Street children have been rounded up and placed in shelters, homeless migrants have been sent packing, and law enforcement has been beefed up. Officials have also started some ambitious environmental projects, chief among them the cleanup of Guanabara Bay. The project will cost $667 million, $450 million of it to be lent by the Inter-American Development Bank; it would be the largest environmental loan the bank has ever made. The plan includes the construction of six sewage-treatment plants and two solid-waste recycling plants...
...agenda for the 12-day U.N.-sponsored summit includes discussing the cleanup of toxic and hazardous wastes and the protection of the atmosphere, the oceans, forests, threatened species and fresh water...
...year's work, executives from such firms as Chevron, Mitsubishi, Royal Dutch/ Shell and Volkswagen agreed on a set of business principles, including the need for sustainable management of resources, the charging of environmental costs against corporate profits, and the rule that polluters, not the public, must pay for cleanup...