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Disaster averted, opportunity missed (Earth Summit).
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Award-winning environmental journalist Geoffrey Lean has seen Earth Summits come and go. On his return from Johannesburg in September, he spoke at a meeting at the Initiatives of Change centre in London. We print extracts:
It was a shame that the dates of the Earth Summit in Johannesburg were brought forward a week. The orginal plan, made long before the Twin Towers attack, was that it should end on 11 September 2002.
The date would have emphasized two things: the need to address the causes of terrorism as well as terrorism, and the importance of multilateralism in our ...
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