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...ways to ensure that economic growth and environmental protection work together, not at odds. Citizens' groups have raised awareness. Many business leaders are seizing the opportunities offered by environmentally friendly technologies and practices. And as a world community, we have held landmark conferences in Stockholm (1972) and Rio de Janeiro (1992), negotiated dozens of multilateral agreements, built up institutions like the U.N. Environment Program and set out a common vision of progress in the Millennium Development Goals, which include eradicating poverty and hunger, reducing child mortality and achieving gender equality and universal primary education. But as is so often...
...Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro was the last time world leaders assembled to look at how to heal the ailing environment. Now, 10 years later, Presidents and Prime Ministers are convening at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg next week to reassess the planet's condition and talk about where to go from here. In many ways, things haven't changed: the air is just as grimy in many places, the oceans just as stressed, and most treaties designed to do something about it lie in incomplete states of ratification or implementation. Yet we're oddly smarter...
...Janeiro 10.6 million...
...Paduas, working with farmers like Miro validates the career switch Claudio made 24 years ago, shortly after turning 30. At the time he was the financial director of a pharmaceutical firm in Rio de Janeiro, and Suzana, then 27, was working as a designer and interior decorator. One day Claudio arrived home and announced that he wanted to work with nature. "Would you prefer a husband who's rich and miserable," he asked Suzana, "or one who's poor but happy...
...during the '80s were the result of a French right-wing conspiracy to shake up the Socialist government? The French would have called it a ridiculous fantasy. As a French citizen, I feel ashamed that such lunatic propositions are taken seriously in France. THIERRY COURTES DE CARVALHO Rio de Janeiro...