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FOCUS: Earth Summit - They came. They talked. And weasled. And left; In 25 years as an environmental writer, Geoffrey Lean had seen nothing like it. What a circus! What a show! But oh, what a missed opportunity! In this special report, he reflects on the week that the world came to Johannesburg and asked for the earth.(News)
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September 8, 2002| Author:
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They came. They saw. They concurred. And that just about sums up what 104 world leaders achieved at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg last week. They did reach agreement, but whether what was agreed will make much difference to the twin crises they had all flown in to address - deepening world poverty and environmental deterioration - is doubtful indeed.
They came, they confessed to each other, from a world in deep trouble. Chancellor Gerhard Schroder of Germany told his fellow leaders how his country and the Czech Republic and Austria had just been hit by "the biggest flood ...
