Word: vitoria
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...official meetings leading up to the Earth Summit, Brazil's representatives argued that the developing world cannot let environmental concerns get in the way of the need to find homes and jobs for its citizens. In February, 800 representatives of Brazilian environmental groups, universities and government agencies signed the Vitoria Declaration, which, among other things, states that the developed world is responsible for global warming and that "Third World countries have the right to increase their consumption of energy to attend to their development needs...