World environment: After the Rio Earth Summit, THE INDEPENDENT From: The Independent (Bangladesh) | Date: June 8, 2001| Author: | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

M. Sirajul Islam Molla
The Independent (Bangladesh)
06-08-2001
Environment pollution has not begun just recently. It began in the
inception of human civilisation and since then it has been increasing unabated
throughout the world. It took quite a long time for the world leaders to
understand the truth that the world has been heading towards an environmental
disaster. Understanding the gravity of the situation, they met together
in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and came to a consensus to protect the world
environment. Then in 1997 a Special Session of the UN General Assembly-popularly
known as the "Rio ...

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