Word: summiteering
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...real competitive disadvantage could come from failing to protect the environment. Already Japan is developing a 100-year plan to capitalize on environmental concerns by designing "green" technologies, and European nations are moving in the same direction. Says one observer at the pre-summit meeting now being held at the U.N.: "Once again the U.S. is going to be left behind in the dust of a Honda...
...Moreover, the U.S. has pledged to contribute $75 million to international funds designed to aid developing countries in efforts to reduce production of greenhouse gases. Reilly is convinced that the U.S. will sign on to a climate-change treaty and all other agreements that come out of the Earth Summit...
...other six major industrial powers are expected to attend, Congress is pressing him to make the trip, and the Democrats are poised to blast his record on the environment. But if the President's motives are just political, the journey south will be an empty exercise. The summit cannot succeed unless the U.S. gets into the spirit of Rio and does its part to create strong new covenants to protect the planet...
Gloom descended as leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States ended their summit meeting in Kiev last week without managing to defuse a situation that threatens the already fragile structure of the nascent organization: the growing rancor between Russia and Ukraine...
...summit's failure to resolve any important questions, warned Kravchuk, meant that "the entire existence of the C.I.S. is questionable...