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Brundtland came to Commencement straight from the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, and she used her speech to discuss some topics under consideration there...
Given the lack of leadership by governments, Maurice Strong, the summit's secretary-general, hopes ordinary people will force politicians to live up to the obligations articulated at Rio. He plans to make his own contribution to this grass-roots movement by heading an Earth Council, which he sees as a watchdog organization like the Helsinki Watch groups that sprang up after the 1975 Helsinki accords on human rights. The Earth Council's goal would be to ensure that institutions such as the Sustainable Development Commission actually do their...
After that calamity, the Rio conference turned out to be comparatively free of controversy. For weeks Bush had acted more like a latter-day James Watt than "the environmental President," at first uncertain about attending the conference and then blocking a variety of proposals from major allies, developing countries and even William Reilly, his own Environmental Protection Agency director, that were designed to improve the environment into the 21st century. Bush seemed to be caught between two constituencies he holds dear -- on one side conservatives and business leaders who oppose spending on the environment, and on the other conservationists whose...
PERHAPS GEORGE BUSH SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETter than to think a brief stop in Panama on his way to an uncomfortable appearance at the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro would remind Americans of the foreign policy successes that have otherwise marked his Administration. Panama City is notoriously prone to ugly street demonstrations, and on the eve of Bush's hastily arranged visit, an American G.I. was killed and another wounded in a drive-by shooting...
...better to cast his lot with his party's conservative base than to try to be all things to all people. "For the past half-century," said Bush, "the U.S. has been the great engine of global economic growth, and it's going to stay that way." Once in Rio, Bush signed a climate-change treaty calling on all nations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and provide specific plans for meeting that goal -- something the U.S. has already begun. Bush was criticized by some environmentalists for pledging less in new aid to developing nations than did Japan, which announced...