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Partly in response to that competitive threat, Johnson has speeded up efforts to improve CNN's international reporting and programming. Bureaus in Amman, Rio de Janeiro and New Delhi have just been opened; another, in Bangkok, will be in operation by March, giving CNN a total of 16 foreign bureaus, along with eight bureaus in the U.S. Two more hours of original programming will be added to CNN International's daily schedule by mid-1992. In addition, a growing amount of CNN's domestic fare (like World Report, a collection of stories by foreign broadcasters) seems geared as much...
AMAZONIA by Loren McIntyre (Sierra Club Books; $40). This large-format portfolio captures the riches of the vast Amazon Basin, from the white-water region of the western Andes to the black waters of the Rio Negro system, on to the blue of the south, and finally to the brown Amazon mainstream. A dazzling record of an ecological treasure that is fast being destroyed...
This week Speth's institute will publish a "Compact for a New World," a proposed model for a way rich and poor nations might come to mutually beneficial agreements in Rio on the environment and development. Meeting in Washington last June, a group of activists, businessmen and politicians agreed that poorer southern nations would have an easier time accepting unpalatable initiatives on population stabilization, climate change and deforestation in return for a substantial quid pro quo. Its elements: debt forgiveness, direct financial aid to help end poverty, and technical help to reduce the poor nations' role in global environmental problems...
This type of north-south bargain is also what the Rio conference should be all about. But while the U.S. seems to treat Rio's emerging suite of agreements as a threat, other industrial nations see the Earth Summit as an opportunity. MITI, Japan's powerful Ministry of International Trade and Industry, is developing a 100-year plan to make Japan dominant in eco- technologies; Tokyo is also said to be pondering ways to become the world leader in environmental reform...
Many conservationists believe the prospect of lost opportunities in the global marketplace will eventually persuade the Bush Administration to be more | forthcoming. But what will emerge from the Rio deliberations is still very much up in the air. Barbara Bramble, an official at the National Wildlife Federation, argues that even if the Earth Summit produces toothless principles, it will still have the effect of shaping environmental agendas for everybody, from the U.N. to ordinary citizens groups. The question is whether the bureaucratic timetable and that of the biosphere will match...