Word: rios
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This week the largest international meeting in history, let alone just on the subject of the environment, will convene in Rio de Janeiro, replete with 100 heads of state and a cast of tens of thousands. Some would assert that just having the meeting represents progress, but there is every reason to wish for and expect more. Fortunately, it is no longer possible that it will be naught but an environmental Woodstock or an enormous black hole for diplomatic talent and energy. With a last-minute flurry of negotiation possible, it is as yet unclear how much progress will...
This international attention led to a series of environmental meetings across the globe, culminating in an international Earth Summit at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Brundtland comes to Cambridge directly from the summit and is expected to address the graduates about balancing economic growth and ecological well-being...
...sticky residue on every bald patch of open land in the greater Harvard area. Sure, the grass looks great now. But a month ago, any part of the Yard not under a building was drenched in blue-green chemicals. Harvard was like a gigantic poster child for the Rio conference...
Today, the Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland is at Harvard straight from the Rio Earth Summit to deliver the University's Commencement address. Brundtland, chair of the World Commission on Environment and Development, is a world leader on environmental issues...
...Rio conference is just part of a growing global awareness of the world's problems," he said. "Harvard is making the right move to be involved in science, technology and humanities scholarship that is going to increasingly stem from the environmental movement...