Earth summit for sale: Katharine Ainger discovers how the UN learned to stop worrying and love big business. (UN).

From: New Internationalist | Date: July 1, 2002| Author: Ainger, Katharine | Copyright information

WHITE ants -- Australian for termites - are pale grubs that chomp their way through wooden structures which still look intact from the outside. Until, that is, you lean on the framework and find yourself crashing through rotten, hollowed-out wood. In the run-up to the second 'Earth Summit' which will open on 26 August in Johannesburg, South Africa, 10 years after the Rio Conference which brought environmentalism centre stage, the world will look to United Nations frameworks to prot...

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