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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...
Even as world leaders prepare to debate similar issues at the Earth Summit in Rio, local politicians are in the midst of working out a plan to reduce air pollution...
Harvard professors said yesterday that they expect the Rio Earth Summit, scheduled to begin today, to heighten awareness but not to solve the world's environmental problems...
...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...